Just looking at those places give me a headache, I just wish I could go back to the room and lay down with my aunt. We walked down some odd (sorry, I mean strange) houses that appeared to be on the ground, floating, or adjusted on poles standing 20 feet in the air with a ladder leading up to it. We continue to walk until I see a door up against a wall. We walk up to it just past a group of kids who blow on a stick which looks to be wet, then after he blew on it, out comes a bubble you would see from a bath. It turned blue, green, yellow, and blue again, then pop! They both laughed and blew more bubbles; I just stared at them with shock and awe to my face. We finally got to the door which opened on the other side, passed it I realized where we are, on the railing pathway to the three airships. Then General Tajjit spoke above the loud noise of the ocean below us.

“You will be divided into three groups; each group will go into an airship and wait until the following commands are emitted.” He then nodded at a soldier and went back inside the city. I stared at him thinking of the way he stares at me, it feels like sorrow, much people will think of him as ruthless and bewitched, but I think of him as a regular man, like my father. A giant wave splashed against the wall below us as it rises and splashed me and my aunt, she freaked out and started to breathe heavily, she needs to get some professional help fast.

We were divided into three groups with specific names, there was Rual, with me, Tha’a, and Arek. Very strange names, probably with meaning but I’m not the one to worry about it. I go into the first airship which looks really nice inside, like the airship my father described to me in his bedtime stories. It had arches of steel holding it up, with engines lined up on the side to provide fuel for the ship to be able to fly. People standing in front of the engines making sure they run properly and have the fuel to run it. We were taken to the back part of the airship, it was a very small room that barely held us. We all squeezed in as a man told us to not touch anything or we will be punished blah blah blah, we know the procedure!

We were there for almost an hour before things started to happen, we saw men through the window on the door running back and forth grabbing things, then we saw a guy who grabbed a cable off the wall and hooked it to his waist, then we saw him go outside as the cable is being pulled. After a few minutes he comes back in all wet, probably from the rapid waters below. He then says something to the man that looks like a pilot, and then takes off the cable around him. He waves his hand outside the door and then shuts it. He rushes over to the engines where he then pushes a button which makes that alarm we heard earlier go off, it is so much louder here than inside the city, I cuff my ears with my hands as the ship begins to shake.

We then look out the small and only window in the room to look outside to see the city beginning to get away from us. Then we felt a weight pulled on us as we sink to the ground, I stare out the window to see the city way below us, I can now see whats all inside, buildings, houses, and that giant thing that hangs in the center, whatever it is. We are now really high as the airship flies in the air, I sit down to scan the crowd to find Terity and Odd, I realize that they aren’t here, they must be with the other two groups, the only people here with me are my mother, sister, and aunt. I get up next to them as they sit on the floor, my mother holding Clira as she does the same to mother, my aunt holding a blanket around her as she shivers from her illness but smiles for my health and safety. We flew in the air for an hour or so until things started to happen. We all looked outside the small window and it looks to be like we were flying into the clouds, very thick white ones too, it was mere seconds before we emerged from above, and what I, I mean we saw, was magical.

We saw beasts flying in the air, airships everywhere, we even saw some crafts that didn’t appear to be airships, more like giant spheres in the air, we saw beasts that flew in the air that are covered by pointy horns and scales it was unreal. Then the airship we were on made a noise and it started to turn slightly to the right. It kept turning as we stared out the window to reveal the other two airships. It looked like were still turning but going at the same direction. As the airship turns and turns we lost sight of the other two airships, until we gained a sight non like the other. At first we couldn’t see cause the sun, but after seconds of trying to see, we saw it, and we all knew what it was, the royal city North Hollow.