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“Would two flames be born just to collide? Oh, oh, oh, come to me, my sinking mate, for I have no boat to reach you. We were made to swim with fate, not even the storm could undo.”
“I love you, Skylitte,” Kane whispers, slightly detached.
In a panic, I reach up to my tippy toes, desperate to kiss him before he leaves the front. Kane blinks in surprise at my brisk movement but closes his eyes to press his warm lips against mine. I sniffle as I open my mouth for him, feeling only a beautiful surge of love plow through my body.
In a blink of an eye, we’re standing in Ambrose Oasis. But somehow, it’s different. The sky is a soft shade of indigo, the stars twinkle through the misty clouds in the middle of the day, and everything is at peace.
I gasp, and it’s like it never happened. We’re back in the stadium. We’re standing in front of our friends, Niles and Ruth wiping tears and grinning up at us. And Warrose is still singing.
“Did you see that?” I ask, but the surprised look on his face tells me he did.
“What was that?”
A booming sound blasts through my ears, making my brain vibrate, my world tilts on its unstable axis. And I have to slam my hands over my ears to try to muffle the sound. It doesn’t work. The sound roars through every fragment of my being. I fall to my knees in crippling shock.
“Skylenna?”
The sound crashes through me. A warning. An alarm. A horn of something almighty.
“What’s wrong?” Dessin. It’s Dessin kneeling in front of me, hands gripping my shoulders. Those dark irises pinning me down with concern.
“That noise!” I hiss. Don’t they hear it?
“What do you hear?”
“It’s so loud!” I stutter, gasping for air.
“Skylenna, focus. What is the noise?”
I shake my head. I’m going to faint.
“Visualize the sound, baby. Tell me what it is.”
I squeeze my eyes shut. Letting the earthquake pull me under. It’s enormous, great in power, like a…
“Lion,” I choke out.
“A lion?”
“No,” I say, letting the beast’s roar form in my head to completion. “A RottWeilen.”
“DaiSzek,” Dessin exhales.
His colossal howl rumbles across an ocean to reach me. I can see the ripples of dominance his voice carries. I sway with dizziness, grasping at what he’s trying to tell me. It’s urgent. It’s fierce. It’s shining like a lighthouse in a storm, piercing through space and time.
“He’s calling to me,” I finally state, realizing everyone is huddled around me.
“Is he trying to tell you something?” Dessin pushes his question like it’s life or death.
“Yes!” I lean into that beautiful, terrible sound, begging to understand his meaning. And it hits like a meteor shower. “He’s coming for us!” I nearly scream. “Oh, Dessin! He’s coming for us. He’s not alone! Oh my god!”
Ruth is the first to jump to her feet with an squeal of excitement. The rest of our friends follow her lead. Warrose whoops with a fist in the air. Niles leaps with Marilynn in his arms. It’s a combustion of happiness, relief, and love.
Dessin stares at me, breathing hard against my mouth.
“He’s not alone?” he asks with joy and hesitation clouding his dark gaze.
I breathe in the RottWeilen’s cosmic call, examining its depth, its range, its coded message.
