“Gee, you don’t say.”A thought I projected along with rolled eyes.
She frowned.“Is that you talking in my head?”
I sighed and spoke aloud, “So you can hear me?”I’d begun to wonder since she didn’t immediately comply.
“Quite clearly.You want me to leave.”
“Yes.”
“And forget you exist.”
“Also yes.”
“What of the Red Cap?”
“If you want to remember it, by all means, go ahead.It’s your nightmare.”
Her lips pursed.“Red Caps and dragons aren’t real.”
“No, they aren’t,” I agreed.“Now run along before you miss the ferry.”The sky had darkened, and the rain smelled imminent.
“Your voice…” she mused aloud.“It sounds familiar.”
Uh-oh.
“You’ve spoken with many dragons?”I mocked with a harsh note to mask my usual tone.
“Don’t be silly.You’re my first.”She paused before adding.“You’re Alistair Graham, the owner of the castle.”
Bloody hell.I should have let her fall.
ChapterThree
I wentfrom sure death to being saved.
By a dragon.
Who could talk.
What a turn.Here I’d come looking for a lost treasure and found something even more incredible.While I was fairly bouncing in giddy excitement, Alistair, the dragon, seemed less than impressed.Actually, if I were honest, his reptilian face bore an annoyed expression.
“Leave and forget everything that’s happened,” he boomed, the syllables of it vibrating every inch of my being, and for a second, I almost scurried down the path.
Instead of fleeing, I planted my feet and cocked my head.“You know I can’t do that.What kind of historian and researcher would I be if I abandoned the discovery of a lifetime?”
“It’s like you want me to eat you,” he grumbled.
My jaw dropped.“Do dragons actually eat people?If you do, you must be hunting away from the isle, as my research didn’t mention anyone going missing since your purchase of the castle.Or are you like a python who eats only rarely because of how you digest?”
“I don’t often eat people,” he growled.“But I might make an exception for you.”
“Don’t be cross.”
“I will be cross because had I known you’d resist my mental suggestions, I wouldn’t have exposed myself saving you.”
“You’d have let me fall to my death?”I huffed.
“Why not?You were the one who foolishly didn’t leave when I told you to.If you had, you would not have encountered that Red Cap, and we wouldn’t be having this conversation.”
