[ With a carefree, confident smile, he nods at Xiao Xingchen. ]

All right. Come back before your chroma gets too low.

[ With that same expression, he helps Jin Ling up, and then swings into the saddle behind the boy. ]

Now? Now we ride.

[ He tugs gently on the reins with one hand and clicks at the pegasus, which turns and heads off across the wasteland at a brisk trot, its glittering hooves stamping up plumes of purple dust that lazily rise up and trail behind them. With open country before them, the pegasus picks up speed, from a trot to a canter. Gu Yun curls his body forwards, his free arm coming around Jin Ling's waist to hold him securely. ]

Forgive the liberty, but it's necessary.

[ From a canter to a full on gallop, the pegasus runs, golden mane flying in the wind, hooves thundering across the barren ground. It's a deafening sound. Smoothly it unfurls its golden wings and spreads them wide.....

And then everything goes quiet, except for the sound of the wind. The ground falls away. ]

If you don't like heights, it's all right. Close your eyes. I'm here.

[ In the lavender sky hangs the vast planet Prismatica; from this perspective, it looks like they're going to fly all the way there. ]