"Is the mental effect permanent? And can you change it back? What-"

There is a rumble and the spring shifts and changes, the stone warping into a shape. There is a circle containing the water and a shape growing amidst it... a dragon shape.

"...the hell?"

"...uh. Hey Jessica come here and drink from this?"

"...fine."

She does.

It tastes... like water. And there is a noticeable absence of wings on Jessica.

"Maybe if you drink from another spring? I think the statues mean that they are... claimed."

"Yeah that's what I thought."

"—wait, does that mean I get cool-ass wings? .......wait, does that mean Fenris got that one?"

"Sounds likely."

"But why? And how?"

"I don't know? Maybe this where skymages truly come from? But we should give you and Victor the water anyway. ...More powers."

"Victor's still asleep," she says, but makes her way to another island to get the water.

The water tastes much better. At least in the second it takes before her wings start growing. That's possibly the worst pain she has experienced in her life and also the briefest.

Now Jessica has a pair of blue-green wings sprouting from her back,her irises turn white, and she gets a keen sense of the sky surrounding her. She in fact can tell with good-as-eyesight precision the shape of things in a few meters around her. She can feel the water too, as something under her direct control.

There is something off about the sky, and it's pretty obvious a property of this particular pocket dimension. The air just stands too still.

She can also feel the rock under her feet as something she can move. A statue starts emerging from the spring after a few moments.

"Oh. I have wings."

"—anyway, as I was about to say, the psychological changes aren't exactly permanent, if I switch back I start reverting to my normal thing. My fear is only that if I go full dragon I might not want to get back."

Nod nod. "Please, don't-"

He turns around to check on Victor.

Lying there on the ground.

"Are you gonna try drinking from one of the fountains?" She makes the closest rock island move closer for convenience.

She can move her own claimed rock and nudge another towards them. They collide and the ground shakes, but no one is thrown off balance

"Did you do that? I already have skymagery..." he does not say that Fenris didn't look changed despite drinking from the water, "...but I guess the reptoids could come here and take it and that would be one less power in their hands."

He hops to the floating island and drinks.

"This tastes good, but I am not feeling- wait, you can control the rock with your statue on it?" he asks as a statue starts emerging.

"Yeah, apparently."

"Okay... They are kinda slow, but we should be able to crush things with them." Pause. "Should we get going? Back to Earth?"

"I suppose so. Why is Victor still not up—whatever, mount up."

Jessica looks at the sleeping body of her driver and waits for Felix's help to hoist him back onto Dayo's back.

Yes, he can do that. "Remember that we need to be touching while crossing the dimension or we will land in different places."

"We're all touching Dayo anyway."

Once they're all up: hup.

"Yes, but you can fly now and cross it on your own."

This one is a ruined city, the dawn is rising with a crimson sun.

Knives appear in everyone's hands, even Victor's. Felix looks at his own knife surprised.

Dayo also has a knife. It's tiny in comparison to her body.

"Where is Earth?!" she roars, and speeds up her flying. "This is ridiculous I'm tired of these pocket dimensions I want to become a human and hug my boyfriend and figure out how to rescue my other boyfriend and cry."