Leon's heart was beating like a drum as he sat on Silver's back, looking down at the ground rushing past him as they approached the Middle Lands.
He could hardly form a single coherent thought the nearer they were to their destination. He kept thinking back to that one day. That dawn, as soon as he came out of the water, he had searched around the area, trying to find where Zanya had ran off to. He had thought she was somewhere in the vicinity. However, when he could not find her even after expanding his search for another 5 miles out, he thought that she must have left as soon as he had fallen unconscious due to exhaustion.
