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The sounds of a brawl-in-progress brought all the men and a wild-eyed Endelle flowing out the door.
Rachel wasn’t too far behind because she’d caught Duncan’s cider scent and the breh-hedden had her in its grip all over again. For some reason, she liked that he’d gone caveman.
Merl hadn’t exactly won friends with his flirt-with-anything attitude and the brotherhood cheered their latest member on.
When Duncan stopped for a breather and Merl followed suit, Rachel couldn’t take her eyes off her breh. He looked magnificent with his eyes on fire, his muscles pumped for fighting, and his scent wafting over her like a layer of mist.
Then he mounted his wings and the moment he did, a whole lot of stunned cursing went around the men. And why wouldn’t they be astounded; Duncan’s wings were now huge, bigger than most, and they were beautiful.
Rachel put a hand to her chest and for a moment simply couldn’t draw air into her lungs. His wings were bigger than before though still green like his eyes and with powerful black bands around the edges.
“Oh, my,” she murmured to no one in particular.
“Shit,” Endelle said. “They’re almost as big as mine.”
Duncan, however, shouted at Merl. “You giving up, Third ascender?”
Merl, blood pouring from his mouth, hunched his shoulders in response and stripped off his red silk shirt. “Like hell.”
His turn to mount and within three seconds, his massive black wings with row after row of soft violet bands caused another series of exclamations to flow around the warriors.
And of course, an air battle was a whole new ballgame.
Luken arrived suddenly. “What the hell is this? I’ll have steaks ready in about three minutes.”
Endelle chortled. “Merl made a pass at Rachel and Duncan saw it.”
“Holy fuck. Well, then.” He joined the other men and cheered as loud as any of them as Merl and Duncan flew at each other, wings tucked to gain speed for a moment then unfurling to do battle, fists and legs flying.
Rachel felt dizzy in part because she was breathing way too hard. But she was also caught up in tracking the men. Duncan broke free and wheeled away to gain altitude.
Merl flapped in such a way that he remained in one place, while he watched Duncan come at him from a higher position at full speed. His wings did a kind of rotating flip that drew him aside at the last moment. At the same time, he caught Duncan hard in the back, with his foot, as he flew by.
Duncan was only ten feet above the ground when he caught himself with his wings at full-mount and stopped from plowing into the lawn.
Rachel hardly saw Merl. Her eyes tracked her man, and he was glorious. He flapped slowly at first then faster and once more went at Merl. But this time he knew the Third ascender’s trick and adjusted so that he caught Merl’s left wing.
The ensuing and very loud snap caused all the warriors to groan loudly.
But to everyone’s surprise, Merl kept flying even though part of one wing dangled. The Third ascender was using levitation to stay in the air!
Rachel could see that Duncan now hesitated because of Merl’s broken wing. That kind of damage done to a Second ascender would have had him falling to earth.
It was clear to her, however, that Merl wasn’t giving up; the warrior was pissed.
This wasn’t good.
Without giving it a second thought, she stripped out of her dress and bra and prepared to mount. She wasn’t as quick as these two men in releasing her wings, so it took time for the mesh to rise and the swelling of her back to complete.
Then the rush came, a tingling through her entire body so close to the feeling of sex that her breath caught. Before she flapped her wings, however, she brought forward the shielding power. She rose straight up into the air, naked except for her red thong, and headed straight for Duncan as fast as she could.
Merl flew at top speed as well, wings at close-mount. He was aiming right for Duncan from a higher altitude, rage on every feature of his face. He had to be in an enormous amount of pain, but still he pressed on.
At the last moment, before the collision could happen, she tackled Duncan around the waist, pushing him backward several yards. At the same time, she let her shielding power flow.
“What the hell!” Duncan shouted. He caught her around the waist. “What are you doing?”
Glancing over her shoulder, she watched Merl scramble in the air, turning in a circle, hunting for Duncan.
