Page 3 of Dragon Me Through Space

Luckily for me, I wasn’t normal.

“Scout, break open the window,” I whispered.

One of the Dragonkin knocked on my door. “Come on, we just want to talk. Why did that Bolsan grab you?”

“Because of my assets,” I said, putting as much innuendo into the last word as possible.

“They are pretty nice,” one of them whispered on the other side of the door.

Scout attached itself to the window and let out two loud beeps before emitting a high-frequency sound that shattered the window and caused the Dragonkin to yell out in pain.

Two for one!

I leapt out the window and Scout zoomed after me. With a somersault in the air, I landed in a perfect crouch on the ground, my boots crunching on the broken glass. The streets had filled up since I had entered the hotel and people stared at me with mouths agape.

“She jumped out the window!” I heard the giant Dragonkin yell, his head coming out to look for me.

I saluted him with a smile and hit a button on my boots. Wheels snapped out of the bottom and I skated through the city towards the landing bays. There was a ship leaving in less than ten minutes. I had to hurry or I wouldn’t make it in time.

People leapt out of my way, shocked at the contraption I was using. It was an old Earth device that humans used to wear and play with. “Roller skates” was what they used to call them.

I wondered what the Dragonkin had wanted to talk to me about. They hadn’t seemed hostile. But sometimes people pretended to be nice before attacking you … or selling you. I knew that all too well and bore the scars from it.

I slowed as I neared the landing bays, changed my boots back to flat bottoms, and used my scanner to find the ship that was leaving soonest. Hundreds of beings of all races from hundreds of different planets milled about the landing bays, giving me ample cover to walk between them, undetected. I flipped on my cloaking device and walked onto the large ship preparing to depart. A small crew prepared the ship with luggage that seemed to be only enough for a handful of passengers. This looked to be a private ship, owned most likely by some rich businessman who wouldn’t even notice me eating a few meals until we reached the next port.

Even if he did notice, I could pay him well enough to convince him to let me stay on the ship.

I found a secluded spot in a cupboard in the kitchen area, hunkered down, and closed my eyes. Running all morning with hardly any sleep the night before, plus the drugs that Bolsan had given me, and the adrenaline wearing off, had taken a toll on me.

“Prepare for departure!” a voice called over the loud speaker.

The ship began to move and I fell into a deep sleep.

CHAPTER TWO

“How did a human girl escape you three?” a familiar voice asked.

“She jumped out of a window from five stories up and landed without injury. I don’t think she’s human,” another familiar voice responded.

Oh. Crap.

The Dragonkin.

I was on the ship with the Dragonkin.

I held perfectly still, slowing my breathing and my heart rate as much as I could. My cloaking device was active, but Dragonkin were one of the handful of beings who could see through it.

“Why were you so adamant about catching her anyway? The poor thing was terrified after being drugged and taken to be forced to marry that Bolsan,” the giant asked.

“Did none of you smell her?” one of them asked.

“No,” the giant one replied.

“You think she was⁠—”

Whatever he was about to say died on his lips when he opened the door to the cupboard and saw me. His mouth dropped open and I lunged between his spread legs, headed for the door.

Unfortunately, there were three more Dragonkin in my way who moved faster than the first to block me.