Kiya's exciting discovery of a magic mirror brought everyone to their feet (except Polgara, who was still sleeping quietly). They crowded around her to examine it. Being the shortest one in the group, meant that I was left circling around the perimeter of the crowd looking for an opening and finding none. Out of frustration I tried to fly up above the group.
No luck. Try as I might, no amount of wishing or jumping was getting me more than a few centimeters off the ground, and I came back down twice as fast as I went up. "Drat!" I cursed, and smacked myself in the ear for thinking I could really fly. The ear-smack apparently is the trigger for this particular skill, for I started floating quite easily up to where I wanted to be. Flapping my arms like a birdy, I flew around to hover over Kiya's left shoulder.
"Nice castle!" I said. I could see everything from up here: tops of heads, magic mirrors, hats, decolletages, and in the mud, over by the stream, a set of boot prints and a nametag. I flew to the nametag and read aloud: [color:"pink"]"Hello, my name is Lynn."[/color]
