until she can swing her leg over and find a relatively comfortable perch between scales. She pats the side of Verone's neck twice. For better or worse, she's ready.

Verone's usual method of getting into the sky was to launch herself with all of her power and then break the sound barrier, but poor Kee probably wouldn't enjoy that. Instead, she raced toward a good hill and raced off of it, launching herself high into the air and spreading her wings to catch -