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They roared at our klynnas—and the klynna Dakota had bonded with roared back.
I got the distinct impression that they were communicating, through the sounds.
The dragons finally rejoined their families, and we turned sharply, headed back toward our land.
It would be a damn long journey—but at least we were finally headed home.
We stoppeda few hours after leaving them behind. Everyone grabbed some of the strange but delicious fruit the land was covered in, and had a quick meal while Dakota relayed the klynnas’ conversation with the dragons.
“They said that their goddess urged them toward our land, whispering about a need to end the threat we posed,” she explained. “They blame the loss of their army on her, not us, and won’t come against us again. But they warned us that if their goddess told them to attack, then others probably will as well.”
Silence fell as her words sank in.
I reached out to Naomi before she’d even finished talking.
“Nai?”
There was no response.
Fear cut through me, sharp and intense.
I crushed the wall between our minds, and her emotions rolled over me.
Fear.
Panic.
Focus.
There was no pain yet, so she was okay.
Though I itched to use her name to bring her to me, to get her out of the fight, I couldn’t. Not without knowing the situation. She wasn’t hurt—and the others might need her there.
“We need to move,” Ervo snarled at me and Priel, and his wings were cutting through the skies a moment later.
Seventeen
Naomi
Somethingwas flying over us.
Something even the klynnas were afraid of.
At the orders of the leaders who had remained at the Stronghold, the fighters were gathered in the trees outside, while the heavens poured rain on all of us, drowning out our scents.
Everyone who couldn’t fight—or hadn’t insisted to be outside—was huddled in the basement of the Stronghold.
I wasn’t a fighter, but I was the only one who could lead the bears. So I had hidden near the bottoms of the trees with a few of the other women, and called them to me. I’d tapped into my magic and whispered through it that they needed to be silent as they came back to me from wherever they had gone.
None of them had protested, and I could feel them coming closer.
But whatever the hell was in the sky had been flying over us for ten minutes already, moving in slow, sweeping circles.
It knew we were there.
It was waiting for some sign of who and what we were so it could attack.
From the glimpses of it I’d gotten through the trees, it looked like some kind of gigantic octopus with wings and scales. The thing was utterly terrifying.
