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“This is only our beginning. We’re going to be just fine,”he reassured me.
I bit back a snort, my eyes watering slightly from the fear.“This is so damn far from our beginning, Ter.”
He chuckled into my mind.“Just trust me, baby.”
And despite everything, I did.
When he dropped his head, stopping suddenly, I sailed smoothly off his back. Rather than shifting, I tapped into Vevol’s magic—my magic, now—and landed lightly on a thick branch. I was far enough away not to be in danger of catching a stray claw to the face, but close enough that I could still see what was happening.
I clutched the nearest vertical branch when a snarling Teris lunged for the emerald dragon. He dodged the creatures teeth and claws, burying his own massive fangs in the monster’s throat as he flew over its neck.
Teris had grown tremendously with the influx of magic from the goddess, I realized, when I saw the size of him next to the dragon. He was absolutely massive. As big as those creatures Vevol had created, at least.
I saw harsh, bleeding lines on the dragon’s shoulder as it spun toward the place Teris had landed. The sabertooth didn’t even look fazed by the fight, despite the nausea in my stomach and the fear swelling in my chest.
He knew what he was doing.
He knew how to fight.
He was going to be fine.
I forced those thoughts to keep running through my mind as I watched Teris soar past the dragon again, slicing through the other side of its neck.
It wasn’t healing as fast as the fae or klynnas did.
It wasn’t healing atall.
And by the time Teris landed again, it was already plunging toward the dirt.
My eyes shut, my stomach churning at the awful sight.
“Stay there,”Teris said. I didn’t respond, but I didn’t move, either.
A few minutes later, I heard him land on my branch. He was being loud on purpose, so I knew where he was and wasn’t afraid.
His hands were on my face a moment later, his fingertips warm and wet with the dragon’s blood, but his touch light. I squeezed my eyes shut more tightly, not ready to look at him again yet.
“I need you to open your eyes, Nai,” he said quietly.
“Not yet,” I whispered back.
“There’s not time to wait, baby.” His voice had softened, but there was grit in it that told me he was serious.
My eyes snapped open, and met his deep teal ones. I noticed that the whites were slightly red, and alarm bells rang in my mind. “What happened? I didn’t see it hurt you.”
“It didn’t. I think its blood may be poisonous to us.” He reached a hand up to wipe his mouth, and I saw the blood staining his lips. Though I wanted to shut my eyes again, I forced them to remain open. He had protected me, and that was what mattered. That was all that mattered.
“So what do we do?”
“Blood and mud keeps us alive. We’re going to cover me with it, and then you’re going to fly us back to the Stronghold,” he said calmly.
I shook my head, but he was still holding it in place, so he moved it in a nod as soon as I’d stopped shaking it. “We don’t have time to worry. I need you to tap into your magic and take me to the ground. The more I use mine, the faster the poison will work.”
“Shit,” I whispered, as he pulled me carefully into his arms. “Can’t you just throw it up or something.”
His lips curved upward the tiniest bit. “If magic worked that way, yes.”
I was too stressed to scowl at him for the answer.
