Twilight of a Hybrid, стр. 70
“See, Sora?” said Marina. “My husband is agreeing with us: he wants to go back,”
“I have an idea.”
“You have?” asked Sora. “What is it?”
“Don’t go against the Titan,” said Geraldus. “You won’t win.”
Valverno spun around and looked at his four companions, with his wings widened. “Just do as I say: distract the Titan,” Valverno ordered. Valverno made a ran dash toward the cliff, passing through his companions.
“What are you doing?” shouted Valverno’s four companions.
Before they could react to stop the hybrid demigod, Valverno leaped off the cliff and his stretched out his wings. Knowing he can’t fly, he was taking his chances to glide to the other side. However, there was no feeling of wind blowing to make him glide directly toward the other side.
Valverno had his wings spread out wide, he was barely managing to glide to the other side; he was facing downwards toward the Pool of Shadows. Falling at an incredible speed, Valverno angled his arms around his head so he could drift in the air, which was relatively working.
Then he started to flap his wings and making him inch closer toward the other wall and away from the other side. As he inched closer to the rocky wall, Valverno’s eyes could gaze upon the Pool of Shadows he was getting closer to than the wall he was trying to glide to.
There is no way I’m going down without an effort, he thought.
Then he quickly whipped his tail behind him and bent his legs and he suddenly floated forward at a speedy pace. With one whip of his tail, Valverno reached the other wall and slammed his arms and wings into the rock. He slid down some feet before coming to a full stop. Gladly, he stopped first before looking downward; he was ten feet away from the Pool of Shadows.
Up close, the Pool looked like a long river flowing in the deepest parts of the undercity. The liquid was a water source but colored black. Waves of the liquid swirled and twisted with each moving particle within the Pool of Shadows. Echoes and whispers of taunted voices taunted Valverno by his name.
Valverno could hear many voices in his mind, calling to him to bathe in the Pool of Shadows and see what glories await him beneath the black waves.
Valverno shock his head and looked upwards. I’m not going to take a bath just yet, thought Valverno. A celestial, half-god has something more important to do than to play in water. Valverno released his hands and used his hind legs to jump to a higher altitude.
In a single bound, Valverno had jumped about fifty feet before falling again of some twenty feet. The three claws of his wings slammed into the rock and held his body by their pointy ends. He impressed himself he could jump that high.
Then he jumped again and this time jumped up a hundred feet before stopping in the air again. He used his hands to grab to an edge and pull himself closer to the wall. With his hands and wings holding his body to the wall, Valverno moved his arms and wings and started to climb. He moved and slivered at a speedy paste he was putting his arms and legs through, with his wings shagging with his shoulders.
Valverno crawled along the wall like a spider. Even he couldn’t fly from the edgy cliffs, he did have the ability to climb to great heights. His hind legs were easy enough to bend for Valverno to push off and making him walk and climb at the same time. Valverno was glad he was a specimen of two different species of one being a mortal and the other being an immortal, but he couldn’t figure out the science of how a god could interact with a mortal woman.
As he neared the higher cliffs and the roars of the Titan growing louder, Valverno had splint seconds to think of how to get past the beast, yet along how Flarefur, Marina, Geraldus, and Sora were doing. A giant beast like the Leviathan would be able to squash the people if they were just ants. But Valverno believed he could survive a beating of the Titan’s hand, since a past incident involved with many boulders crashed over him.
He could see the many lights flashing from a fog that suddenly appeared out of nowhere. In a one single bound, Valverno leaped toward the nearing edges of the wall he was climbing and where the item he was seeking would be at. His hands latched out and grabbed onto the edges. Valverno lifted himself over the cliff’s edges and stared through a thick fog.
Valverno could easily see through the fog, but for a human, it would be blinding to see anything through this strange, mystical fog that appeared out of nowhere in matter of seconds. His eyes saw the shadowy figures of Geraldus, Marina, and Flarefur standing on the other side of the bridge, but he couldn’t find any sign of Sora being among them. He was worried Sora must have been caught by the Titan and killed.
From a short distance, Valverno could see the Leviathan moving its long, slivering head at a small object close to its eyes if it was a fly.
The Leviathan paid no attention to Valverno or anyone from the small group across the bridge; the only thing distracting the eyes is the thing flying across its eyes. The object flying close to the Leviathan’s the Titan had to move from one side to the other to swipe away the little insect.
Valverno’s eyes zoomed over to see what the little insect was flying around the large Titan, only distracting it like Valverno said just before he jumped off the cliff. Valverno had little thought his own sister, Sora, would have been the little insect bugging the Leviathan at a very close