The Isle Of The Griffins Chapter 18
The Isle Of The Griffins Chapter 18
After a journey of roughly three days, Lolite and the two griffins had gotten within sight of the continent of Erythala. From the small Isle they were currently positioned on, it appeared to simply end somewhere in the clouds:
The entire continent seemed to be made of huge spires and plateaus of sunset orange rock reaching eternally upward through the sky, the only signs of a top being the trailing roots of air-plants clinging to the cliff faces somewhere in the mist.
"Ah, there it is" Grappleclaw said, looking on at the colossal structures, around which pelagornis flapped in the distance to and from their nests on the rock.
Kรครคrme chattered and squealed in agreement, attracting a local Ichthyornis, which the dilo proceeded to devour before it could cause trouble.
Goldenbeak took flight for the continent, flapping up a cloud of sand and dust,
While Grappleclaw picked up Kรครคrme in her front talons and flapped up into the air as well.
Lolite hopped off the ground and glided over the sea between the last Isle and the continent, splashing his tail feathers in the water to remain airborne for longer until splashing down into the sea, swimming the rest of the way among wild salmon and rare surface anglerfish which gazed upon him with massive eyes like pools of mercury but chose not to come closer.
Reaching the thin strip of red gravel that served as a beach for the continent, Lolite rested for a few seconds on the stones before hooking In his paws and scuttling up the rock face, stopping to regain energy on a precarious ledge home to myriads of seabirds and fishing pteranodons, a very strangely behaving argent flew close to him and grabbed one small Ichthyornis from the rock face, feasting on it on the wing, and he continued upward over the rough rock face.
Climbing became somewhat swifter when air-feeding roots began to appear in a tangled thicket about halfway up, offering better grip than the bare stone. And he soon enough had crawled through a dense layer of clouds.
Bursting through the vapourous barrier, Lolite crawled atop the cliff, briefly his vision blurred, the entire world reducing to bizarre abstract shapes of surreally bright colour, two big brown blobs suddenly began fluctuating in and out of reality, getting closer and larger while extending hundreds of tentacles and legs, but quickly his third lung began breathing the thin air, and as the world reverted to a more comprehensible landscape of bluish green grasses and hardy shrubs with spiny triangular leaves and mejoberries growing in clumps on their thorned branches. The pair of monstrosities slowly morphed and shrunk into Goldenbeak and Grappleclaw, while what had been an indistinct puce circle turned into Kรครคrme the dilo.
"That. . . Was bizarre" Lolite noted.
"The hallucinations are always odd" Goldenbeak said "they tend not to happen once you've gotten used to the thinner air"
