Chapter 86
Emelia made Adam park their airship in a cave on the northern side of Fallow’s Glory when they arrived. There were a few other caves around the sheer cliff-side of the floating island, and she wanted them to explore those since they had time. The landmass it floated on went down really far unlike other islands they’d seen, and she had said there was an elaborate cave system.
“How long do we have exactly?” Adam wondered.
“About 3 hours or so,” she said. “It’s hard to say when exactly it’ll get here, just that it’ll be sometime after nightfall.”
“Hopefully Captain Drew won’t mind us being a little bit late with his map,” Adam said.
“Night lasts at least 6 hours, so, if we’re lucky, we should be able to get back to Windtop tonight.”
Adam looked to his cube. “Let me know when there are 10 minutes to nightfall.”
[Understood.]
The cave they parked inside was hardly any bigger than the airship, but it went quite far down, allowing the fins to hang without pressing against the rock.
With his barriers, Adam ferried them out from the cave and up onto the fertile soil of the island. Large trees covered most of the surface and a glowing mountain in the background showed the volcano they’d both seen in the images that Iffen had shared with them.