Book Eight: Chapter 143

After a short time, the chaos settled, and proper introductions were made. The large gargoyle was named Jett, and the short one was actually named Gravel. He had a tough time remembering the others as they were introduced en masse, and none were quite as strikingly different as those two.

Slade took Mike on a tour of the tower and showed him how some of the rooms had been altered for takeoffs and landings. During Mike’s visit, the castle rotated, and now they were facing the cliffs. A few gargoyles hopped out of one of the windows and just rode the thermals, playfully tumbling around in the air for his amusement. This shortly turned into a competition where they shared the aerial tricks they had perfected in this space, doing mid-air loops that put anything Mike had seen from Abella to shame.

The gargoyles only had a few questions for Mike, as most of their curiosity was for Cerberus. The hellhound didn’t offer much of value, but each head was eventually engaged in separ