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  1. I waited until we’d gotten within a hundred feet of the enemy. By then I could almost make out the trick the Huntress had mentioned: there was a… glimmer on the back of the vulture, whenever it shifted one side or the other.
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  5. I breathed out to steady myself, then threw myself to the side. Swallowing the scream that was trying to fight its way out, I forced my eyes to stay open and gauged the distances even as I drew on Night. One, two, three, four and… there. The gate into Twilight opened below me me even as a second silvery arrow swatted a leaping Revenant back onto the vulture and a fourth buzzard dropped. I dropped through the warmer sky of the Twilight Ways for a heartbeat before pulling at the Night and wrenching open another gate, resuming my fall about two feet above and three feet in front of the vulture.
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  7. That repositioning trick had been a bitch to learn even with Komena helping me.
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  11. In the same moment, uncaring that there were also Revenants atop it, the vulture flipped upside down.
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  15. I let myself keep falling, Mantle of Woe flapping around me, and pulled on the Night.
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  19. Which was good but I was still, unfortunately, rapidly hurting towards my death. That, uh, hadn’t stopped while I was scheming. Fortunately others had noticed, and within moments the Summoner had brought around his wyvern-thing and even guided it to sweep me so I wouldn’t break my legs landing on it. I gave him a thankful nod, then breathed out and opened a gate into Twilight in front of me.
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  21. A heartbeat later I stepped out of another gate onto the back of the vulture even as the Knightess turned to face me, longsword raised.
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  23. - Book 6, Chapter 53: Joust
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