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Marveling at the plumbing used in this place, which somehow rivaled that of modern human society, I took a much-needed hot bath and got dressed in my linen PJs. After hiding my mom’s letter under the new mattress, I headed to the window, pushing almost half my body out as I searched for Vyper in the night. Would he even know I was no longer in the other room? Would he be able to sense me here?
“Vyper, come to me… I’m on the sixth floor,”I called with my mind, feeling like a lunatic because, well, I had just tried to speak to a Dragon with my thoughts.
It didn’t get crazier than that.
“Aahh!” I cried out the next moment, staggering back and landing on my ass when his yellow eye appeared out of thin air.
He snickered, hovering away so I could see his entire face as he laughed at me.
“Asshole. A little warning that you are already there would be nice.”
His raspy chuckles shook his chest as he hovered closer. Pressing his face to the castle, he let his eye roam the room, taking it all in.
“Do you like it?” I asked, scratching the scaly skin on his cheek that I could reach, and he nodded. A small part of me wanted to poke his eye in retaliation, but I wanted to see Evie more. “Let’s go.”
After slipping the tip of his wing into the larger window so I could climb on him, he flew me up, helping me climb into Evie’s room. She came to me the instant I arrived, kissing me and searching my body with her hands, like she needed to personally make sure I was okay.
“How is your arm?”
“Completely restored. The kids and Luna healed me when I went to their cave.”
She nodded, though I could still see the questions in her eyes.
“I think I have some kind of connection to them, Evie.”
“I know you might feel like that, but it is impossible. The only bond possible is the one they form to us. It is one-sided, Braxton. It always has been. They can feel our emotions, sense our needs, and protect us, but no man has ever been able to connect to them like they connect to us.”
“No, you don’t understand. I’m certain now. I am connected to them.”
“Braxton, their attention is overwhelming, I know, but it doesn’t mean—”
“I have Dragon sight, Evie. I can see through their eyes. How do you explain that? That is how I knew to take the underground tunnels so we could escape Raithian the first time. How I have visualized every corner of this realm since I was a kid. And the reason I know Azazel can’t see us when the Dragons are camouflaged. I saw him look straight to the place where I was with Vyper and Draco, and he could only see the sky.”
I held her shoulders, finding clarity, and putting some of the pieces together.
“I can feel their emotions, sense their needs and wants, just like they do with us. I have felt Azazel’s wrath, and it was all-consuming, Evie. That is why I knew he was coming. And why the Demon Dragon saved me today.” My gaze fell to the ring on my hand. “My mom recognized this ring the last time I saw her, and she told me you needed me, that you would come back for me. I think the ring has something to do with what is happening to me. It was my father’s, wasn’t it?”
She blinked, not expecting the question. “Yes, it was.”
Her eyes said she didn’t have the answers I sought about the ring, so I decided to ask something else. “I heard Asher call the Demon Dragon Tharion. Is that his name?”
“Yes, although we call him Fire Fury.”
“Appropriate,” I mumbled, remembering the few glances I had actually gotten of him. Flames seemed to dance among his body, but I couldn’t be sure. I hadn’t exactly had time to stare. “Has he ever saved anyone else? Or connected to someone.”
Her brow furrowed as she thought about it. “Not that I know of. He is not like my Luna, Vyper, or the rest of them.”
“What does that mean?”
“Fire Fury has followed us through every move, every escape, always staying close and vigilant, but never engaging. It is as though he has the same urge to protect the Soulris, but he fights it. He settled among his kin in the lairs when we built this safe haven, finally having a place for the Dragons to be close to us, but he has never interacted. The few ones who have tried to get to him, have fallen to his wrath.”
“He killed them?”
Sadness dimmed her blue eyes, and she nodded. “Braxton, I need you to swear to me that you will stay away from him. Give me your word that you will not seek him.”
I wanted to give that to her, but I wasn’t sure I could. “This wasn’t the first time he saved me,” I confessed instead, seeing her pull away slightly in surprise.
“What do you mean?”
