Omega's Rebirth-Chapter 468: The Dunes ()

The wind whooshed through Neveah’s hair, a familiar, comforting feeling as Kaideon stabilized his flight at a reasonable amplitude.

It had just been a moment ago they took flight from the landing platform and Kaideon had shot straight up till they soared just beneath the clouds.

Neveah sucked in a deep breath, the air at this height was always different, thinner... and the silence, with only the whooshing wind for sound and your thoughts for company was a different kind of peace.

Neveah had never understood just how beautiful the skies were until she had gotten a taste of it herself, now... Neveah did not know how she would live without this feeling, without this... freedom.

Neveah spared a look over her shoulder, catching a final glimpse of the mighty Dragon Keep in all it’s glory, towering over the rest of the world.

A melancholic feeling settled deep in Neveah’s heart, leaving was good but Dragon Keep was all she had known for almost two years now, it was not the home she had chosen or even wanted, but it had been a place to lay her head, at the least.

It had given her much lessons, even more pain... and yet, Neveah could not loathe it.

All that was ahead of her would be new and unfamiliar, and Neveah could not help feeling slightly nostalgic.

Just as Neveah returned her gaze ahead, her eyes caught a flash of red and she squinted slightly, gazing in the direction she had caught it to find nothing but clouds.

Neveah frowned slightly, she knew there was an unnamed mountain in that direction which she had never been to, it was one of those places that was considered Dragon King territory.

"He is there, isn’t he?" Neveah thought to Kaideon.

Neveah knew well enough that dragon sight far surpassed that of a wolf shifter, if she could not see it herself, Kaideon surely could.

"He is... and he is not the only one." Kaideon replied, his voice rumbling in Neveah’s mind.

Neveah breathed a quiet sigh, returning her gaze so she stared ahead.

She did not ask to know any more, since she had decided to move on, there was no longer any reasons to look back... she would not look back.

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"The dunes! I think I see it!" Neveah exclaimed out loud, her eyes squinted, trying to make out the spec of white far in the distance, a startling difference from the mountainous terrain they still flew over.

It was so far in the distance that Neveah could barely make it out and she had to squint even further to be sure she had seen right.

"Or is it not? It’s been weeks, father..." Neveah lamented, as she gave up trying to see better.

After almost two weeks of flight, Neveah was slowly approaching her wits end.

Her limbs were already sore from the constant flight, and Neveah did know the flight only took this long because the dune dragons had made repeated stops in concern for her wellbeing and the fact that she was not accustomed to long flights.

And Neveah did feel guilty for being the cause of delay.

"It is, Veah. You have seen right, the White Dunes is up ahead." Kaideon thought to Neveah.

"Truly?" Neveah perked up again, her lips stretching into a small grin when she caught sight of that white spec in the distance.

It had gotten larger this time and was much more visible and so Neveah could now be certain and it grew larger with each passing moment.

"I knew it!" Neveah said, satisfied with her discernment.

Neveah’s words were swallowed up by the wind but not before earning an amused growl from Kaideon.

"We could see it for a long while already, my dear." Kaideon thought to Neveah.

Neveah was about to make a smart comeback, but her mouth snapped right shut because just at that moment, the White Dunes fully came into view.

"By the Creator! This is... beautiful..." Neveah whispered in silent awe.

Neveah had heard of deserts, vast lands of sand and nothing more, covering the earth for as far as the eyes could see and though she had only witnessed such a sight once, on the flight to Dragon Keep from the Eclipse Domain, that desert was nothing compared to this.

The white dunes was an expanse of pure white sand, from a distance, one would mistake it to be the effect of winter.

But the closer they got, the more evident it became that all the white that was within their sight was all sand.

But that was not what was so breathtaking about it, what truly was breathtaking about these lands were the dunes themselves.

Towering, majestic formations of white sand, expertly sculpted by wind, rising and falling in undulating waves.

The curves were graceful and artistic, and with each gust of wind, the white sands shifted and rearranged itself into a new and equally breathtaking scene.

And then there was the rays of daylight reflecting off the grains of sand, a messy show of light and shadows.

Neveah could not begin to imagine just how many centuries it took for these grains of sands to be sculpted into innumerable, elegant shapes, each dune boasting of it’s own unique silhouette.

Neveah was willing to say she had never witnessed such sheer grandeur, that could somehow still exude a sense of serenity and tranquility.

As they flew over the dunes, Kaideon made a sharp dive, banking his wings so they swiftly headed down as though they would crash.

And just above a dune, he stabilized his flight so they now flew low enough that the entire dunes was well within sight and Neveah could even lean down to reach the tip of a dune.

Neveah lifted a hand to shield her eyes as the wind tussled the sand this way and that.

"This is home, Veah..." Kaideon thought to Neveah, slowing his flight so she could fully take in the view.