In theory, she told herself, it was just a city in the clouds. A castle in the clouds. This, being a figure of another belief system, helped the experience quite a lot. These angels, and buildings, and lights weren't contradictions to what you knew, but rather just parts of a different society...

That's right, just parts of another society that happened to be trying to creep up on her in the most subtle way a person with wings the size of a large vulture's can creep up on you. While holding spears.

Blow this for a lark, Cadenza thought, and she parted from Rain and Zorlo like a speeding train zipping onto another track, leading the squadron of angelic guards that had been tailing them away from the rest of the group. The movement had been so quick that the guards hadn't even had time to register the fact that they were being led away--they just pursued this speeding black dot that was a mere flicker in their vision, racing across the clouds.

It wasn't until a wave of dark-colored magic shot out and ripped off an angel's wing that the guards started to second-guess their decision.

"...Should we go back?" one with fair hair and a particularly timid quality to his voice asked. "I think there were two others..."

"...And leave this one loose and unmonitored?" his friend answered. "Are you insane?"

"No...I'm just...attached to my life and would like it to last a little longer, you know?"

His friend was nodding in emphatic agreement when three bigger, stronger, faster angels tore through their group on the trail of the speeding black dot. Looking ahead, this chase seemed to be taking them to the towering fortress that lay on the next bank of yellowish clouds. The first angel smiled, knowing what sort of soldiers and Royal Guards would await them there...

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