Life without excitement?

"What a calm evening, isn't it?" 

A gentle smile decorated my lips as I laid down with Fay atop the open ramp of our maglev while it hovered a safe distance away from the battle, the fortress, and all the immediate dangers of the area. 

Leaving Claudy behind at the fortress after giving him one of our spare radios was what allowed us this small retreat, a short moment of respite before everything would pick up the pace again. 

Now that the situation at the fortress improved by leaps and bounds and there was no immediate risk of the enemy breaking through, we had to start thinking about the opportune time to go back home. 

That was the most fundamental rule of our excursion past the barrier, to come back often enough to maintain the stability of the stable gates. But…