[quote=@Tatterdemalion][b]Adila![/b]

You bounce when you land and nearly end up falling off the mushroom. You really don't want to fall off the mushroom.

You're in a vast cavern, one you might recognize from stories you've heard about Deep Hollow. Mushrooms the size of trees, the size of buildings, rise from the misty depths of whatever lies below. Mushrooms grow on top of mushrooms. The colors are surprisingly varied: red and white, of course, and murky brown, but also lacy white, bruised violet, pitch black...

"Now, we can't have you cheating. That's what you were always best at, after all. How did I not see it?"

Eupheria's sitting on the Caduceus, hovering in the air next to you, one leg slung carelessly over the other. She's wearing the kind of dress she'd wear back when you had victory banquets, covered in frills and folds, every one of them nauseatingly shifting and changing hues.

"You're [i]special.[/i] None of the rules apply to [i]you.[/i] Well, here's a rule: NO FLYING."

She snaps her fingers, and your wings are crushed against your sides by a tight corset. It is Uncomfortable. Like, your wings aren't in a [i]dangerous[/i] position, but it's messing with your balance and it's going to get sore very fast.

"There we go! Now you can have a proper challenge for once."

Okay. There's definitely a way out, and you'll be able to see it up if you get up to a higher mushroom. The only trick is going to be getting up there, but Euphie likes to pretend she's playing fair. And... she's watching you. Which is definitely adding to the pressure.[/quote]

Princess Eupheria has [i]underestimated [/i]Princess Adila. Has she never owned a dog?

Her mind is vector calculus. You think that dogs are stupid? Think again. She can calculate the exact speed and relative momentum to jump and snatch a ball out of the air with her mouth and then skid into place with a perfect 180 turn followed by an immediate acceleration back up to maximum velocity. She's fresh full of memories of the kind of leaps and scrambles she had to do to keep up with Princess Rita before her wings were fully grown in so all the muscle memory is there too. She is fast. She is good. She is obeying the Rules. She has a challenge. What more is there in life?

Jump. Slide. Accelerate. Run. Keep your tongue on the inside of your mouth, Adila! 

[Get Away: 8-1= 7, getting there fast and avoiding danger along the way.]