Page 35 of Areyna's End


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I let out a giggle as I sit down near the towel that was in said bag around myself and start the fire. I have to keep it small as there’s nowhere for the smoke to get out, I found that out the hard way, but it helps to warm me up a bit. As a dragon I seem to be resistant to changes in temperature and I found a neat little trick for carrying things into the cave without them getting wet. The scales on my stomach have what looks like a pouch behind them, when they close together it's completely air and water tight. I always thought dragons would be more like they are in the stories and fairy tales, but I’m nothing like them. My scales aren’t like those of a fish or a crocodile, they’re more like the softer scales of a spiny lizard or a gecko, the larger ones overlap but not by much and the size of me in that form, even I was shocked that I’m bigger than a house.

“House! Fuck I forgot about the damage I caused to the guys cabin.” I groan out loud. “I wonder if they managed to fix it.”

My thoughts drift to the guys. Remmie with his sweet but calculating nature. Torren, always the cheeky flirt, even when things are bad, I could count on him to make me smile. Derrin, the protector who’s as stubborn as he is sweet. Jason, I’m still not sure how much I should trust Jason, he’s one of the main reasons I haven’t tried going back. The way he treated me when he thought I’d killed Richard was bad enough but add in the way he kept talking like he was in charge of me makes me not want to be anywhere he is.

Then there’s Rourke, I remember him so vaguely as a young boy who would hang around with Ozzie and my father, always dogging the heels of a man who was always dressed in the same military style uniform the rest of the troops were wearing the night he took me to meet Ozzie from Jason’s house.

My memory is still spotty but I have a better understanding now that bits and pieces are returning. The night my parents were killed, I heard them yelling at each other as they were leaving for the gala event they attended. I remember my mother saying that she didn’t want us involved in an experiment and my father was arguing that they didn’t have a choice. It makes me wonder if the reason they were killed is because they tried to stop Richard’s father back then and failed.

Of course there’s also my memories of Manny and my time spent with his family. Even though he looked like a beast from a fairy tale, I still had a huge crush on him. I thought for sure one day he’d tell me he liked me back and we’d live happily ever after in the Seelie forest, but as with all things in my life, reality came crashing in and those assholes stole my memories, now here I am.

I don’t know who to trust and I don’t know where to go from here.

I’m a lost little dragon in a sea of monsters who want nothing more than to devour me whole and spit me back out for their own gain.

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