With a chiming call, Melly soared out over the clearing, then folded her wings to her side and dropped into a steep dive, straight toward the lake that glittered between the walls of trees.
The water spanned at least twice the length of her ruined temple home, and the clear water belied its depth; one could see straight through to the bottom, despite the fact that at it's deepest point the water was probably deep enough to even fully cover Hvitt.
A wall of black and auburn stone and clay bordered one side of the lake, the "foothills" of her island's mountain, and from it streamed a cascade of waterfalls, stretching at least twice Melly's body length west and east, and tiered like a pyramid, smaller waterfalls leading into the massive ones that fed the lake.
A moment before she hit the water, the dragoness flared her wings wide and skimmed across the surface, dragging her toes just into the water. She banked left and swooped in an arch to come to a landing on the shore of the lake that led directly into jungle.
