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“I’ll think about it,” I tell him when suddenly Silas turns to face me.

“Is this challenge only for Dragus?” Silas asks.

“Fine you can both do it but the first one to the castle and back wins, oh and you got to catch me first,” I tell them. They both start stripping and running. Silas and Dragus’s white asses are running through the field, knocking each other over while trying to cover their junk from view. I shake my head, deciding to set out and do what I originally came here to do. I turn to check my wings, trying not to laugh when suddenly Dragus disappears as Silas shoves him. I wait to see where he went when I see his head pop up amongst the grass. I see him drenched as he takes off again, realising Silas shoved him in the small dam. Shaking my head, I feel for my magic.

I let it wash over me, and as I feel it, I rise. A tingling sensation wraps around me, warming my skin and I notice my markings glowing as they wrap around my body, feeling my spine tingle as a warm shiver runs up my spine. I feel my magic and know instinctively that my wings are healed. Gasping, I feel them slip through my skin between my shoulder blades, my spine shifting slightly as I feel them erupt out of me strong, as I flex them like a muscle. I stretch them out, feeling no pain, feeling nothing only how strong they are. I let them fall and tuck behind me out of view.

Tears of happiness slip down my cheek knowing I can still fly. I look to the left to see a dishevelled Dragus racing back to me, Silas right on his heel, looking intense. I laugh as I watch them racing back looking like complete idiots. When they are only around 50 feet away, I run towards them as they both try to reach me first. Unfolding my wings I jump. Both of them go face first into the dirt while I laugh above their naked forms. Slapping them both on the ass. I take off.

“Gotta catch me first,” I scream down to them.

Both of them roll over, looking up at me.

“Your wings!”

“All healed,” I tell them.

“I can’t fly,” Dragus says.

“No but I can,” says Silas, standing and shifting as I take off. Looking over my shoulder, I see Dragus run up his tail while Silas tries to buck him off. He soon gives up and takes flight, his wings lifting his golden figure through the air while I climb higher.

I fly above the greenhouses, Silas following though not getting too close.

“Hey, I don’t want the entire castle seeing you half naked,” Silas voice says, ringing through my head. I laugh as I zip between both greenhouses where his body couldn’t fit. He zips straight up and cutting across his path. Dragus jumps, trying to grab my feet. I move just in time, deciding to fly onto the castle’s roof and land.

I hear Silas shift and Dragus squeal when he falls off him. I turn, facing them, sitting on the roof’s edge when I feel both their hands touch me at the same time. I look up at them.

“Got ya,” They both say at the same time then bicker over who won.

“You both win,” I tell them watching everyone below us.

“This is awesome,” I tell them as I people watch.

“And it’s only the beginning of a great afternoon,” Silas says, sitting next to me and pulling me on his lap. He kisses my shoulder softly, wrapping his arms securely around my waist. Dragus’s hand is on my thigh as he pecks my cheek.

“So, you’re going to tell me what you did to the ugly water fountain?”

“Hey, gargoyles were very periodic when that was installed,” Silas says, defending the hideous thing.

“Doesn’t mean it is any less ugly,” I tell him with a chuckle when I can just make out the cries of Darshan inside the castle. Standing up on the edge between Silas legs, he looks up.

“Where are you going?” he asks.

“To get our son,” I tell him, falling backwards off the edge with a laugh. I spin spectacularly in the air and let my wings out at the last minute, pulling up. I stick my tongue out at their horrified faces above me and they both jump down.

“What if your wings suddenly decided not to work?” Silas asks.

“Well, I would have gone splat then, wouldn’t I?” I tell him, and he shakes his head following Dragus and I back inside the castle.