35: Flying
Gliding on the night wind isn't the wild exhilaration of the storms, but it is in some ways better. The entire world is there below our sight, with the distance turning city lights to stars beneath, and the night sky above and around us. We can travel so far at this altitude, simply by diving and swooping, and have at times been known to leave the city behind completely in our exploration of the skies.
36: Tempest
We climbed hard and also covered ground at a tremendous rate of speed, through the tumultuous clouds. We leveled out on the topside of the storm, hovered for a moment looking at each other, my partner's red and violet eyes meeting my blue and gold, then dove simultaneously, shrieking in delight. The wind snatched our screams as we dropped into a canyon created by the clouds. I dodged the lightening, and dipped from one side to the other, compensating for some of the turbulence that wracked these storms, my eyes fixed on the red winged figure a bit ahead of me. We then leveled out a little and raced for the wild wind that ran at the head of the storm. Then lifted, right before we reached the great horizontal vortex that the massive front was pushing along, and it was timed perfectly as we rode the crest and inserted ourselves into the wave. We surfed the curl, picking up even more speed as the powerful wind helped push us along. I shot along the tunnel of wind and at the edge of control I tightened my wings in. Then we reached the end of the vortex and with the wave threatening to crash over us; we came rocketing out of the clouds to soar into a rain filled sky. It was impossible to tell how much of the exhilaration I was feeling was mine and how much was Daisuke's, for we were both adrenalin high.