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Of course, it wasn’t. And the longer we remained here, the more chance Ilvar had of succeeding with his plan.
I allowed my gaze to fall to the ground. “I lied to you before. I’m sorry. I didn’t have a vision of the end of the world. Even if we did this ritual, it wouldn’t help. It wouldn’t give us any insight into what Ilvar has planned. I made a mistake. I’m sorry.”
Silence descended on us as they stared at me in disbelief. And then the inevitable question came, the question that I feared, yet knew would rise as inexorably as the dawn sun.
“But if you didn’t have a vision about that, then what did you have a vision about?”
I was so lost in my own thoughts that I couldn’t be sure who asked the question. It didn’t really matter, because I’m sure it was the only thing they could think about and any of them could have asked it. Now I had a choice. I could have lied to them, made up some other inconsequential thing, or perhaps even that I had never had a vision at all. I could have painted myself as a liar, a fraud, and perhaps they would have started looking at me in a different light as well. No longer would there be affection and intrigue in their eyes, but more indifference, perhaps even pity that I would have had to go to such lengths to garner sympathy from them.
But I didn’t want to lie to them.
I knew we had barely spent any time together, but I felt a genuine connection with these men, these dragons. It was something spiritual and arcane, something that resided deep within my soul and was rooted in the very core of my being. It was something I could not deny, just as I could not deny anything else that formed my essence. I had been given a vision of them, and that meant something profound. I could not simplyturn away from them. Our fates were entwined, and there was nothing I could do to escape this.
So, I looked up at them and then I said a fateful word.
“You.”
Chapter Nineteen
Buck
She was looking straight at me when she said it. My eyebrows raised. I had felt something towards her ever since we first met, but then again, my appetite had always been voracious. But if I had been in her vision…
And then she continued.
“All of you,” she added. I looked towards Mason and Brett. We glanced uneasily, uncertainly at each other.
“All of us?” Mason asked, scrunching up his face. Kadie sighed and began playing with loose strands of her hair. She twirled them around her fingers and nodded, almost as though she was afraid to speak the truth.
“So, you knew that you were going to meet the three of us? But then why did you run from me when we first met?” I asked.
“I didn’t know it was the three of you until I met you all for the first time. When I first had the vision, it was just… it was three men. Three strangers. But then I saw your faces and I realized that it had been you all along,” Kadie said.
“And what happened in the vision? Did we fight? Did any of us die?” Brett asked.
The movement of Kadie’s hands became more frantic. I started to worry. I stepped towards her and bent down.
“Kadie, it’s okay. You can tell us the truth. These visions are just visions. They point to what might happen, not what’s going to happen. If you did see any of us come to harm, then we have a chance to prevent it,” I said. Maybe the way she looked at me indicated that I was going to die. Perhaps it was just. After all, I had wasted my life and disappointed my father. If I could die to prevent the world from ending, then it would be a worthydeath, and when I met father in the afterlife he might actually have a sliver of pride for me.
“None of you died,” she said. “It was just… we were intimate. Together,” the words slipped out of her mouth. Her voice was small, almost a whisper, as though she was telling us a forbidden thing. My eyebrows arched. No wonder she had been skittish around us. I looked up at Brett and Mason, wondering whether they had even thought of such a thing occurring. Thoughts of her had entered my mind, of touching her flesh, hearing her soft whispers in my ear, feeling her body arch beneath mine, but in all these fantasies we had been alone.
“I suppose it is an ancient tradition for female dragons to take multiple lovers. It’s not as though this is beyond the realm of possibility,” Mason said.
Kadie blushed.
“Well, we don’t need to think about it right now,” I said, hoping to save her, again. She looked at me gratefully. “We still have a world to save, remember? We need to figure out a way for us to find out where Ilvar is. If Kadie isn’t going to see it in a vision and we can’t puzzle it out by looking at the various locations of the world, then how else are we going to find him? Nothing else matters if we can’t stop this world from being destroyed, and I’m not willing to take my chances on the fact that he might be wrong.”
Brett and Mason glanced at each other as we all tried to find a way out of the impossible situation. It was Kadie who had the answer though.
“There might be another way. There could be some plans back at home. Maybe I could sneak back there and search his things,” she suggested.
“It’s too dangerous,” Brett said.
“Do we have a choice?” Mason asked.
I looked towards Kadie. “Is this a risk you’re willing to take?”
She gazed into my eyes, and I felt my heart melting. Then she nodded. “I think I have to. I’ve already taken one risk in leaving to help innocent people. There’s no harm in taking another risk to go back there,” she said.
