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“Well, there is something.”
“What, we can just wake up?”
“It is possible to break the dreamspace from inside it, yes.”
Her brows furrow in thought. “Imagine ourselves on top of a building and jump off?”
“I was going to suggest cliffs, but I understand Mercenia has huts tall enough to be effective. Why not take us to one, my Angie?”
Her eyes narrow a little at my calling her mine, but she does not protest. Setting her drink down on the table, she rises to her feet, closing her eyes. Around us, the room shifts. Unlike the fade into her home before, this time the change is wild, dizzying. The air seems to spin and howl around us, a sensation like falling in reverse, ripping through my nerves. I reach out, grab something hard, cold, and grip it tight. Then the worst of the sensation dies down, our location coming into focus around us. I am holding on to a barrier that surrounds a small platform. It is not unlike our sentry posts, except it is impossibly high. There is no shelter around it, so the wind whips ferociously about us, lifting my linasha’s hair and tumbling it about her face. Her eyes are open now and remain fixed on mine even through the maelstrom of her locks.
“I came here when I was a kid,” she shouts at me, walking up to the barrier I am gripping and leaning over it.
I rally my nerves and do the same, looking down at the miniature humans walking around below us.
“School trip,” she says, quieter now she is closer to me. Then I realise the wind has vanished, a calm settling over the space. “That’s better. Wish I could have done that in real life when I was here.”
“They truly brought younglings up here?”
“It’s safe,” she says, rolling her eyes at me.
“Safe, perhaps. Horrifying, definitely.” I look down once more, my stomach spinning inside me. “It is not natural to bethis high. As high as the trees, yes. But this place is taller than ten trees atop one another.”
“And some,” my Angie says.
“Why do humans need buildings so tall?”
“They don’t.”
“And yet, they still make them?”
My Angie shrugs. “That’s men for you. Always having to prove they have the biggest dick.”
This makes little sense to me. “Humans build monuments to their cocks?”
She snorts. “Something like that. It’s just this thing that humans do. They have to be the best. That means the biggest, the fastest. When they can’t be that themselves, they make something. A tower, a car, a rocket.”
“And only males with big cocks can do this successfully?”
“That’s what they want you to think.”
“Are cocks really so important to humans?”
“To the ones that have them.” She throws her head back and laughs, and though I am unsure which part of our conversation has amused her so, I am glad to see it. She laughs with her whole body, her shoulders shaking with her mirth. It is as beautiful as her fire.
“Oh, I needed that,” she says, a final few giggles escaping her. She looks at me, eyes glittering. “Thanks.”
“I would be more happy to accept your thanks if I knew what they were for.”
“For being ridiculous,” she says. “That’s not a thing many human men I knew were comfortable being. It’s refreshing.”
“Ridiculous is one of my main attributes,” I say, bowing a little to prove it.
She laughs again. “Are we really going to jump off this building?”
I hold a hand out to her, contain the thrill that races through me when she takes it.
“We really are.”
