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

Your keen senses allow you a moment to drag your claws down the side of the pit after it opens up beneath you. Eupheria might have gotten you once by surprise, but she won't get you twice! No, you will clamber back up and demand she let you back into the labyrinth by a more dignified--

That's when Dandy's butt lands right on your snout, and with a surprised yelp you fall, tucking yourself in around her in order to shield her fall. Down and sideways and up you tumble until you shoot right out into a muddy, murky swamp. It smells awful, and Dandy wrinkles her nose as you manage to hold her up over the bog, though for how long you can keep her from it is anyone's guess, with the way you're slowly sinking into it.

"Thanks for the catch, sugarcube," she says, giving you a very comforting pat on your tumtum. "Sakes alive, I wish that witch would give us a little more warning before she tosses us around!" Then, she freezes up, and says, in a hoarse whisper, "There's more of those freaky black centaurs here, but I don't think they've spotted us yet..."[/quote]

Princess Adila nodded. She was quiet now, not because she'd forgotten how to think but because stealth was called for. Thoughts didn't travel like sound, they came into the minds of those around her clearly, so when it came time to prowl and evade she kept her thoughts structured. Besides, it was Princess Dandy's turn to talk.

She knows enough about swimming to know that if she keeps her wings spread and her lungs full of air she can float forever on her back, drifting with winds and tides or with steady flowing motions of her tail. In silence she sets sail into the deep and dark like that way. The only catch with holding that much air is that it ignites inside her and she occasionally has to breathe out little candle-plumes of light which illuminate these dark realms so that she can navigate for them both.