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“A distraction, duh,” he chuckles soundlessly. “If we get there and have to fight, let your dragon take care of it. She’ll know what to do, it’s an innate thing. And when you go over, don’t point your feet. Stay flat. You’ll fall slower.”
“What if it doesn’t work? What if we don’t get there in time?” I ask, my vision blurring the closer we get to the edge.
“Then kill the king. By default, the crown will fall to Loric.”
Shaking out my fingers, I jump in place. “Okay, then how are you going to get there?”
He looks out into the distance, like the clouds could give him the answer. “You. To tell your dragon, if she shifts, to come get me. I can’t ride her there, and I’m not risking falling out of her claws so…” He frowns as we come to a stop. “I need you to put me in your mouth. You can spit me out when we get there.”
I raise my eyebrows. “What if she eats you? She’s threatened it.”
He shrugs, fidgeting in place. “Yeah, well, we’re all taking risks today… You ready?”
“As I’ll ever be.”
“Good, then I’m going to need you to strip.”
“You don’t have to put it like that.” I say, quickly shedding my clothes and handing them to Brenn. He tucks them under his arms. “Could be worse, I could be making remarks like Jesper, and it’s not like this is the first time I’ll see you naked. Probably not the last.”
I gasp. “You have not.”
“That dress was sheer, Calamity. I saw thewholenipple. I saw so much that I know you haveLotuscarved on your upper thigh.”
“Mira told you?” I narrow my eyes, leaning back an inch.
“No. I saw it with my own two beady eyes. I also know that judging by how bare things are down there, that you’ve used your talons to shave.”
“No, I just don’t grow hair down there.” I roll my eyes, trying not to look at the edge.
“Well, that’s fucking weird.”
“Or just genetically altered.”
“Touche. Now, please don’t make this awkward and say goodbye.”
Fine… I won’t.
Slowly, I turn, walking toward the edge, Brenn at my side. He stops about three feet from it while I keep going until my toes reach the very edge. Daring a glance down, I can’t bring myself to go any farther. Fear claws at my throat, turning it bone dry. The air feels too thin to breathe. “I’m going to need you to push me.”
“Oh hell no. I can’t–Please don’t make me,” Brenn whines.
“It’s alright, Brenn… but I need you to push me. I can’t let Loric die.”
Tears bubble over as I turn, taking one last look at Brenn, eyes bloodshot and tears sparkle across his cheeks too.
He takes a hesitant step forward. “Alright.”
“In the next life.”
“In the next life.”
Then he shoves me.
I fall, drowning in the fear that suffocates me. The scream that leaves my mouth is blood curdling as I plummet, then my teeth lengthen and talons push through my fingers and the hair dancing around me in the air becomes white. My skin begins to distort forming into scales and bones crack loud, splintering. I can see the barrier below, growing closer and closer and my body stops moving on my command as Hyde takes control.
Dark as midnight wings flare out on either side of us and we soar feet above the boundary. They flap once, then again, and our body bunches before seemingly kicking off the air and spiraling up and over the edge of the moon. Over Lythanar.
We did it!
