Despite Akkau's apparent desire to take Cale... somewhere, the dragon seemed incredibly resistant to the idea of using a teleportation spell to do so. Cale didn't really get it, considering he'd already used one not so long ago. Maybe he was one of the rare few that suffered a form of teleportation sickness?
Cale wasn't complaining too much about it, though. He wasn't exactly fond of letting himself be teleported by a relative stranger, either. It wasn't like he could see his destination ahead of time—for all he knew, he'd get teleported into a cage. Or into a pit of lava.
It wouldn't even have been the first time.
Without the convenience of teleportation, the two were forced to trek through the desert with nothing but a tinted mana barrier to provide some shade. Akkau didn't seem to mind, but then he was a literal dragon; Cale was pretty sure they grew with exposure to the sun or something.
