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Rhea had had an experience with a dragon before, and she had a healthy respect for them. Even though she knew that this dragon was in a way a reflection of Kelirahc, she wasn't sure how trusting she would be of it.

"So how do we ride it?" she asked Leyenda, a little nervously.

To be honest, Leyenda wasn't entirely sure. With two it had been easy enough, but with seven ...

Suddenly Kelirahc called them over, and he knelt on one knee, making a step for everyone to hop on the dragon's back.

"Just ride like a horse," Leyenda shrugged. "That's about as simple as I can put it. In front of the wings, though, if you can."

Kelirahc motioned for everyone to start mounting, and Shiro steeled himself and led the way. "It can't be too bad," he murmured to himself: thinking to himself at the same time that if it was, he would just fly himself if he could keep up.

Rhea climbed up after Lin, receiving an encouraging nod from Kelirahc as she glanced at him nervously. She settled behind Lin and blew out her cheeks, trying to calm herself. "You would think I could handle this," she murmured, "after everything that I've done."

Arwen and Roydon were next, and then Leyenda, and before Kelirahc mounted he went to the dragon's head to pet its nose gently, saying something to it in his own tongue.

The dragon nuzzled a bit against Kelirahc's chest, and the night elf patted it gently and came around and mounted, setting behind Leyenda. She leaned back into him, and he smiled and wrapped his arms around her, and with a single word to the dragon, they were off.

Rhea cried out with surprise as they left the ground behind them, and without realizing it she grabbed Lin and held her tightly.

Leyenda on the other hand felt no fear. Keeping one hand on Kelirahc's, she spread her other arm to the wind.

Rhea giggled nervously. "Sorry, Lin," she murmured as they rose high into the air. "I just wasn't ready for it, I guess."

She looked over the side of the dragon at the trees that were growing further and further away from them. "I don't think I've been this high before."

Rhea carefully straightened up as they leveled off and began to pick up speed. "Beautiful, if you can see past the blur," she laughed. She was calming down, getting used to the slight weaving movement of the dragon as it dipped up and down with each flap of its enormous wings. "We're going so fast ..."

The landscape passed quickly below them: trees, swamps, clearings, ponds and streams. The sun rose higher in the sky, and at last the dragon began to slow slightly and begin its descent.

"Where are we going?" Rhea called back to Leyenda over her shoulder.

Leyenda pointed to a clearing. "There," she told them. "The village is only about a half hour's' walk from there. It's the nearest place to set down."

The dragon swooped in and landed without a bump, and Kelirahc hopped off and reached up to help Leyenda down. Roydon did the same for Arwen, and Rhea and Shiro used their own wings to set down.

Leyenda looked around once she was on the ground. She was hungry, and she wanted some of the fruit that Kelirahc had shown her.