The desert stretched endlessly beneath them as Rheanne flew with effortless grace while Brandon floated beside her, held aloft by her power.
They had been flying for what felt like hours, though time in this place was unreliable.
Below, the dunes rolled on without end, occasionally broken by jagged black rock formations that looked like the bones of some ancient beast.
Rheanne kept her eyes forward "I can see another gate in the distance."
Brandon nodded his head and glanced at the rock formations in the distance.
"Down there."
She pointed toward a cluster of towering black rock pillars rising from the sand.
Between the largest two black pillars there is another weathered stone archway, half-buried.
They began descending together.
The moment their feet touched the sand near the arch, the ground trembled.
*THOOOM* Sand exploded upward in three violent bursts.
This time, four guardians rose from the sand that are larger than the previous ones.
