Those Distant Sisters CH07

Ch7:

Luna's moon hung high overhead as the familiar drone of the ocean's waves faded from the hearing of a certain cream colored colt. Sonority was sitting practically blind in the pilot's seat of a two-colt fighter plane. The second seat was filled with an oversized fuel tank, which put his small craft on-par with his lost wife's massive cargo ship. The clouds over whatever land he had discovered were so thick that he could only see the faint glow of the moon through the thinner banks above. He didn't dare fly any lower for fear of hitting some unknown mountain, but desperately wanted to get some landmark through the clouds.

Sonority tried to come up with some way to get his bearings. He earned his position in Hearth through unique tactics and unique physical abilities, and he needed something unique. After musing for a moment, he heard a faint rumble from below. Believing something to be amiss with his plane, Sonority pitched up slightly and cut his engines, gliding along through the skies. The rumbling continued. Intrigued, Sonority reached up and cranked the microphones built into his skull at high as he could, hoping to gleam some insight. The rumble itself was unremarkable, but after a moment something else appeared through the noise.

"Fall. Fall like so many others. Fall and leave this land free."

Confused for a moment, Sonority stared forward into the cloudy sky trying to understand what he was listening to. Before he could completely understand, he had to re-ignite his engines, having glided as far as he could without losing altitude. After returning his hearing to normal, he turned the key to start his engines. Within a second, the plane was rocked by an explosion. Unlike his wife, Sonority was flying a military grade fighter which, while less able to fly with no engines, was more equipped to protect the pilots in an emergency. The plane began a nosedive towards what was quickly becoming a forest canopy through the thick clouds, and both pilot's seats were rocketed away to float slowly to the dark mysterious land below. One seat landed just barely above the ground, parachute hooked in the high branches of a wild oak. The other disappeared, as if pulled from the sky by some unseen force.