AN: What's this? I'm updating two stories today? That's right! This one and "To Be the Son of Garmadon" are both getting an update! Hooray!
Even given how much I was loathing myself for sleeping for so long, the thrill of flying made me cheer up a tiny bit, but only a tiny bit. I mean, come on! How awful could a leader of a rescue mission get? I had failed Zane terribly, and I couldn't stop beating myself up about it. My stomach dropped and my heart throbbed in my chest as I thought about how many awful things could have happened to Zane as we had slept.
Nya angled her wings to fly closer to me, noting as she did so, "We had to get some sleep."
I looked at her in confusion.
"Your eyebrows are furrowed and you're frowning. You're obviously worrying over how long we rested," Nya explained. "But we had to sleep."
"But we shouldn't have slept for so long," I bemoaned.
Nya smiled wryly. "Shouldn't we have? We've got a long ways to go still, and even with how long we slept, we'll have to stop and rest again at least one more time."
I sighed, unable to argue with her reasoning but still not liking it. I said as much. "I still don't like it. We shouldn't have rested for so long."
"We'll have to be well-rested for however we're going to rescue Zane," Nya pointed out.
"Yeah, but how are we going to rescue Zane?" Jay butted in, swooping close to us. "There's a ton of whitecoats, and a ton of Serpentine, and just three of us. The odds aren't exactly in our favor, you know? Could we get a tank or a really big truck somehow and just drive right in? Could we steal some of their guns? Oh, oh, maybe we could figure out when everyone goes home for the night, break in, get Zane, and break right back out again!"
That idea, as implausible as it was, seemed to make him happy, and he ranted on for a while about how we could accomplish it. I made encouraging noises and said nothing in particular about his plan. I didn't want to tell him that we had about as good of a shot at doing that as we did at, say, finding our parents. The thing was, we didn't have a good shot at most plans, really. But if it came right down to it, I had a hidden Plan B. That way, everyone would get to go free.
Well, everyone not including me.