Chapter 27

“Speeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell?” Bartz said as he, the others, and their mounts came falling out of the sky and crashed onto a sandy beach. They all lay there for a few tocs to collect their collective breath.

“I told you it would be rough…” Nata said.

“You have a gift for understatement, my dear,” Tomas said as he sat up and shook some sand from his hair.

“Now, that, that was funny!” Falca said, flying down to meet her friends.

“I think you’d be tasty with some apple stuffing,” Bartz said.

“My, you can be testy after a crash landing. I would think you’d be used to falling by now,” Falca said. “I will give you credit though, that smoke arrow worked.”

Everybody rose to their feet and looked around. The first thing that came to their attention was what was left of the two electronic horses. There were parts everywhere.

Bartz turned to Tomas, “Can you fix them?”

“Sure, in my lab in about a month. If I do not eat or sleep or anything else for