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curved his thin lips between his soft white mustache and his long white beard.  Ah &
very good, Damon, very good & perhaps that will help to narrow it down some. We will
start first with the most obvious and work by the process of elimination.
* * *
Clear and foaming waterfalls, deep streams of clean, cool water & might please the
eye, but at the moment they were keeping Nikki safe from the flying beast that had made
a beeline for her. Slayer speed had shot her over ground and through water into a shallow
cave just behind the waterfall, and there she hid until the flying beast got weary and went
in search of other prey.
She had no idea how long it had been since she first entered this world, as the sun
didn t move. It was as though time stood still.
Cautiously Nikki made her way out of the cave and began moving through the jungle
of brush, ground foliage, and thick bushes in an attempt to circle the oasis. Perhaps there
was something on the other side, something other than desert?
All her nerve endings at her neck were on fire, but suddenly something caught her
attention. She was being followed.
She stopped and stared through the thick foliage and saw eyes red eyes!
Backing up faster than she had meant to, she kept the thing in her sights until it
snorted and began to rise to its full height & higher and higher &
 What is this? The land that time forgot? Nikki breathed out loud.
It opened its mouth to roar and displayed a suction mouth with rows upon rows of
jagged teeth. Nikki almost screamed as she told herself, Hell and damn & I am so outta
here!
Slayer speed came to the rescue once more until she could no longer hear or  feel it
behind her and she stopped to catch her breath. She bent over her knees and sucked in air,
blew it out and repeated the process. This last thing she had encountered had been a
demon from hell & not too different from the desert demon. Huh, she told herself,
silently, Satan might be a handsome fallen angel who could lull you into his web, but this
devil, oh no, not handsome at all.
Nikki wanted to fall down and cry. She was tired. She was scared. She was alone, and
she was beginning to think that even if Rysdale found her, it would be too late.
She knew she had to keep going, but the question was, where to?
And then she heard it tramping through the jungle towards her.
She had to run & She weaved and sped through the jungle of lush vegetation because
it seemed closer than before. She had to do something, something other than running.
She dove into her slayer s closet and looked for a trick she could use.
Cunning was the only thing that would save her now. She used slayer speed and
strength to launch herself up a tall palm, and then jumped to another tree, this one with
enough foliage to shield her. She continued in this manner to the edge of the oasis &
back towards the desert. If it was tracking her on the ground, this would stop it & or at
least slow it down.
She paused long enough to realize that she had in fact (at least temporarily) lost the
demon. Evidently it couldn t climb. She was all for staying in the tree for the time being
and would have perched there all night, as the day had suddenly shifted towards night.
Like a dimmer had been installed on the sun, it was now on low mode.
However, some things are not meant to be, and apparently perching in that particular
tree wasn t going to work.
A snake that was wider than she, and at least ten feet long, put up its hoary head, and
out came its forked tongue within a foot of her face.
Nikki jumped to the ground and landed in a crouched position, ready for battle. If she
was going down, she was taking whatever with her!
When nothing appeared, she told herself out loud.  There ya go, slayer & still okay,
and then she almost burst into tears. Instead, the slayer in her mind took over completely
and cried out loud enough to break her inner ears, DAMON!
Then she burst into tears.
* * *
Damon paced in a frenzy of movement. Too much time had elapsed. What was taking
Rysdale so long? He felt helpless, and then it came to him. He could connect with Nikki!
He had done it before. He didn t know why he could, but their minds had touched one
another before, and he would be damned if he couldn t do it again.
And then he heard, DAMON! He zeroed in on her voice, and his mind responded, I m
coming, love & hold on & keep talking so we can get a fix on your location. He turned to
Rysdale and told him sharply,  Get into my head & she s there.
Ry put a hand to Damon s head, looking as though he were doing a Vulcan mind
meld, and after a moment smiled and stepped away.  We will have to hurry & .she is
surrounded. He began twirling his wand in a circular fashion faster and faster while he
chanted in sharp accents. A black hole formed and grew, and he grabbed hold of Damon
as he stepped through.
* * *
Nikki looked up and saw it stampeding towards her, the desert beast with its grinding
teeth working away as though practicing what it was going to do to her. Nikki went up
another tree.
You can t come here, Damon & the sun is too strong. It will kill you, she called out to
him in her mind.
Here already & He could see her in the tree and reached towards her just as he looked
up and saw a flying beast, dragon-size, dragon-form, flying and diving towards her. He
reached out his hand and shouted,  Nikki, grab hold of me!
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