Offered to the Triplet Alphas
My heart restarted with a pang, its pounding drowning the air howling past us.
Curling instinctively around Xanthea, I pulled her back against my chest and twisted, turning my back toward the ground.
The valley sensed me.
The moment it did, a swarm of red butterflies erupted across the land like a living storm, rising upward in a violent squall.
They united into a crimson tide just before impact, breaking our fall.
The breath knocked from my lungs as we rebounded off my butterflies.
My back crashed into the cushioned bed of spider lilies, pain bursting through my spine.