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

There's nothing like princesses working in concert. You race up the back of the Snake-Husband as, together, Tashanna and Shazari lure it in its battle with the snake-wife towards the hole in the ceiling. Behind you, Helya races, making it look easy; every buck or undulation in the furious snake's battle doesn't even seem to phase her, even though it's all you can do to keep your footing.

There! Your window for diving into the torrent is tiny, but it's [i]there[/i], as the Snake-Husband rears up and rakes the flooded checkerboard with his eye lasers. From the top of his head, you can [i]leap--[/i][/quote]

She notes as she moves that things are much less confusing if you're doing the right thing. She'd thought that this kind of clarity was unique to racing, to moving at speed with everything she had through the air. She never thought her mind could feel this clean while slogging through raging water burdened by waterlogged fur. There wasn't grace in this; it was pure muscular exertion against the deluge. But she was being lead forwards by silver and that seemed like it was all that matter - she knew what she had to do and all that was left were the practicalities. The part of her mind that thought about others thinking about her was [i]off[/i], subsumed into the simple business of putting one paw in front of the other. When there were no questions about where she was going a strange reality settled over the act of getting there. Travel was different when she could see the path.