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“You’re very protective of her. That’s good,” Elvey said with approval. “You’re loyal and honorable. Those are rare and fine qualities.”
Sybil almost lost balance with her one wing. She moved to a lower beam but nodded solemnly. “I’m loyal and honorable. My former master abandoned me, but Queen Fury will never desert me. She gave her word! She’s honorable, too.”
“It takes one to know one.”
Sybil chirped happily in agreement.
No one could easily spot her presence without her showing herself to them, and no one had ever spoken to her and treated her with fondness, except I, and now Elvey.
She obviously appreciated his flattery.
“Come here, Sybil. Let me take a look at your wing. I might fix you.”
“I’m not going to trust a stranger,” Sybil said.
Elvey laughed his rich, silver laughter. “I’m hardly a stranger. I was with Daisy the other day. If it wasn’t for the rude dragons, who have a penchant of spoiling everything, she would have graced me with a kiss.”
Sybil giggled. “The dragons don’t know they’re rude.”
I blinked. I didn’t know that she could giggle.
Elvey sighed. “Maybe you’ll teach them manners?”
Sybil pondered. “I probably will.”
I smelled trouble.
“Now come here, Sybil,” Elvey said.
Sybil flapped her wing, dove, and landed on Elvey’s strong arm. While she tilted her head to study him, he stroked the stump of her broken wing gently.
“Who did this to you?” Anger laced in his voice.
“Archangel Gabriel. I used to be Akem’s mouthpiece. The Archangel didn’t like what I said about his witch mate, so he hurt me.”
“Son of a bitch! When I meet him—”
“He left to the stars. They say there are lots of stars in another part of the universe. When Queen Fury leaves, she’ll take me and all her monsters with her.”
“How about I help her leave?”
“You will do that?”
Elvey smiled at Sybil, and she was stunned by his even, white teeth.
A light, the color of peach, glowed around Sybil’s wing stump. Like a miracle, her wing grew back with the light until it reached full length.
I pulled out of her memories.
She now waited for me to absorb the information and pecked my arm with her beak before turning to preen her shiny, white feathers.
This Elvey is a very nice man,she insisted as she gazed at me meaningfully.And super-hot.I hope you don’t hurt him.
I’m not going to eat him.
You know what I mean, Sybil said.And he requested your audience, Queen Daisy Fury.
CHAPTER 17
