A Wild Ride Through the Night
A Wild Ride Through the Night
“White as a sheet and glassy-eyed, he sat astride the creature, heedless of the cold air rushing past, even though he had few clothes on and his hair was still wet with sea water.
‘You’d welcome Death in your present state,’ remarked the gryphon, which occasionally turned to give its passenger a look of concern and tried to cheer him up. If it hadn’t been for the gryphon, Gustave would probably have sunk down on the damsel’s rock, consumed with despair, and been devoured by the next dragon to co...me along. As it was, the creature had eventually convinced him that it would be smarter to climb aboard and let himself be conveyed to the scene of his next task. There he would be provided with fresh clothes and equipment and a suitable means of transportation.
The sea displayed scarcely a ripple as they sped across it to a peninsula not far away, which itself formed part of a largish land mass. Gustave could see from above that the peninsula was densely wooded, and that looming in the interior was a bleak mountain range.MoreLess
‘You’d welcome Death in your present state,’ remarked the gryphon, which occasionally turned to give its passenger a look of concern and tried to cheer him up. If it hadn’t been for the gryphon, Gustave would probably have sunk down on the damsel’s rock, consumed with despair, and been devoured by the next dragon to co...me along. As it was, the creature had eventually convinced him that it would be smarter to climb aboard and let himself be conveyed to the scene of his next task. There he would be provided with fresh clothes and equipment and a suitable means of transportation.
The sea displayed scarcely a ripple as they sped across it to a peninsula not far away, which itself formed part of a largish land mass. Gustave could see from above that the peninsula was densely wooded, and that looming in the interior was a bleak mountain range.MoreLess
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