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“We need one more,” Aev said, looking at my brothers.
Priel and Ervo glared at each other.
“Dorock, paper, scissorsalready so we can get on with it,” Summer grumbled.
The men frowned.
Right.
They probably didn’t know rock, paper, scissors.”
“They’ll both go,” Mare said, raising her voice. “Three would be safer, anyway, and you guys are all coming back. Right?” She looked at Ervo.
He glared at her, but she gave him a quick smile, and his glare softened a little.
“Fine,” he gritted out.
Priel opened his mouth to say no, but North elbowed him in the side and growled, “He’s going.”
He growled something back at her, and they glared at each other for a solid thirty seconds before he finally snarled, “Fine.”
He yanked her to his chest and kissed her.
Ervo dragged Mare into his arms, taking her mouth as he held her tightly, too.
Nai threw her arms around my neck and hugged me tightly, whispering into my mind,“You’ll only be gone a few days, right?”
“It damn well better be only a few days.”
Nai attempted to stay positive.“We’ll make it. We can talk about all the shit we missed while we’re apart. It’ll be good for us.”
I really, really hoped so.
“I love you,” I murmured aloud to her, capturing her face between my hands and taking her lips in mine. She held my hands in place, kissing me back just as passionately.
“We have to go, now,” someone called out.
My brothers and I all growled as we extricated ourselves from our mates, and Priel and I climbed onto Ervo’s back.
The fliers took to the sky, and I watched Naomi until the trees hid her perfect form for me.
“Please be careful,”she whispered to me, as we flew away.
“I will,”I vowed.
I’d never been afraid to risk myself, but now? Now, I had a reason to choose safety and peace over more fighting.
We followed the creatures’scent trail through the sky until they stopped to tend to their wounds and drink water. Some of our people grabbed water, or fruit from trees nearby, but Ervo remained in the sky, so we always had their scent down. It was technically still storm season, though we were on the tail end of it and hadn’t had any rain in a while, so we weren’t taking the chance that it could start raining fast enough for us to lose them.
Soon enough, we were moving again.
Naomi and I talked on and off throughout the day, and hearing her voice in my mind kept me sane despite the distance between us.
When the creaturesstopped for the night, we were close enough that we saw them descend and make their camp near a large, noisy river. We stopped where we were, far enough back that we hoped we wouldn’t alarm them. Their senses didn’t seem to be particularly strong, which worked in our favor.
After eating a few strange fruits that my magic told me was safe, I settled on the highest branch of a tree, where I could watch the place in the trees that the creatures had claimed. Their trees looked much different than ours, with rougher bark, thinner branches, and muted colors, but when I sent Naomi mental pictures, she said they still weren’t like the trees she knew on Earth.
Ervo and Priel took up spots in the trees around me, watching the same as I was.
