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I heard another roar, much closer to us.
“It can’t be coming toward us, can it? Why would one of the fae attack us?”I asked, growing a bit panicked.
Fighting was not one of my talents. Not at all. I’d avoided the male fae for too many years to let them teach me.
“No. I’m sure there’s an explanation,”Teris said, though his voice was a bit tense.
He was climbing higher into the trees, toward the highest branches, I realized.
He wanted to see the dragon. To make sure we were right.
Teris leaped up to a bare branch, shifting forms and holding me tightly to his chest when he landed on two feet, peering up into the bare sky.
Our eyes landed on an emerald dragon gleaming in the moon’s light, but…
It was different.
The shape of it was harsher. Sharper. Crueler. It didn’t have the same majestic sweeping lines that the fae dragons did; it looked like a weapon.
Like a monster.
It roared again—and its eyes landed on us.
Teris swore, throwing me over his shoulder and launching himself off the branch. I gripped his fur for dear life, biting back a scream when I felt the dragon’s claws swipe through the air where my head had been just a heartbeat earlier. It was a miracle all my damn hair was still attached.
“It’s not a fae,”I whispered, horror pounding in my chest.
“No.”Teris almost sounded… worried.
But I knew I had to be imagining it.
“Can we outrun it?”I asked.
“We’re going to find out.”His voice was grim.“Hold on tight, Nai. As tight as you can.”
“I will.”
The monster crashed through the trees behind us. It was smaller than the male fae dragons—so about the same size as me, if I had to guess. But its movements were sharper, like the rest of it. It wasn’t strong enough or large enough to break the thick branches, so they slowed it down, but only slightly.
And not enough for us to really get away from it.
We were slowly inching further in front of it, but that couldn’t last. I knew that couldn’t last.
“I’m going to throw you off my back,”Teris warned me. His voice had gone calm—the fighting calm I knew so well.
“No,”I said sharply.
“I can take one damn dragon down, Nai. Trust me.”
I trusted him.
But that didn’t mean I wanted to see him hurt.
“What if they can’t be killed, like the klynnas?”I protested.
“The only way to learn that is by killing it. Trust me, and get those wings ready. Only fly far enough to get out of the way, and then hide.”
“Okay,”I finally whispered.
