ETTING   OME   O   LFANDRA

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Hespa's Story part 24 - Third Attempt

The world is enveloped by fog.  It is night.

"Wha--" Pyros starts in response to Cira's rather curious statement, but then looks ahead and goes into an abrupt dive.

Out of the fog rears an immense bridge.  One dragon goes over the bridge deck, the other below.  Cira crashes into the deck suspension cables and sticks there with a cry.  Pyros and Emma come up on the other side of the bridge.

The bridge is illuminated by large orange lights.  The fog completely obscures the distance and we cannot see to either end of the bridge.  Above us looms an immense tower, apparently part of the bridge.  We cannot see it's top.  Below the bridge deck one can look down and see the tower extend downwards into the cloud.  The whole scene gives one the feeling that we are being held, suspended, in nothing.  The main deck of the bridge is undivided and at lest a fifty meters across.

Emma clings to Pyros' neck and hollers, "This doesn't look like my world either!!"

If you listen very closely you might be able to hear the sound of water far below.  At length the silence is disturbed.  A large six wheeled vehicle with lights blasts into view.  It swerves unexpectedly even though there is nothing in its path.  The driver probably didn't expect to see a 40 foot winged lizard stuck in the cabling.  The vehicle straightens out, regains its speed and roars away.

Cira pants and works to extract himself from the cables.

"Sorry guys.  I think I know what went wrong, please let me give it one more try."

"What *did* happen?"

"For some reason the fold vector is getting multiplied as a last step.  Maybe there's still a bug in my code.  Anyway, I'm going to try dividing the input to compensate for it."

"I don't see any other choice than to try again, since we don't have any other way to get Emma to RL...."

Emma pulls a face, but Hespa says: **absolutely....third time lucky, eh?**

Provided everyone agrees we fly back out and make another jump.  He adds the return vector to the corrected destination vector eliminating the need for a jump back to their starting point.

"What do you mean vector multiplied by three?!!" he says as the world is enveloped in white.