“Miu!” I cried, searching frantically behind me for any sign of the small dragon. Holding onto the remaining iron bars, I was startled as I realized that I could once again see my own hands. Miu must have lost his concentration on the invisibility spell when he was blown away.
Gunshots echoed from below me as I finally hauled my whole body out of the vent, grumbling under my breath the whole time. This whole ordeal was, quite frankly, all Kyle Leonard’s fault.
“What did he say? ‘The train isn’t speeding up yet’? Moderate exercise, my foot. What a load of—” I muttered, cut off as a second round of gunshots rattled through my ears. Frustrated, I swiped my hair out of my face and reached around me blindly, searching for Miu. With a triumphant grin, I felt a small creature huddled not too far from me and grasped at him blindly.
Catching my breath, I screamed over the howling wind, “Miu, we have to go to the ninth compartment! The ninth!”
