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But it didn’t seem to breathe fire, so it would need to land to fight us.
And we had the bears.
It had occurred to me that maybe thisthingwas what those bears had been created to fight, but without seeing how effective they were against it, I didn’t really know.
I’d wanted to call Teris back to me, using his name, but the leaders had warned me, Mare, and North that the ripple in magic would be intense if we tried that. And since we didn’t know how sensitive the gigantic octopus was to magic, we couldn’t take that risk.
As soon as the monster attacked, I’d get him to my side.
Until then, I was focused on maintaining my hold on the bears. Their willpower was way too strong to control them, but I needed them to know that we were at risk, and stay quiet. And though they definitely seemed to understand the purpose of their creation, I was unsure as to how much they could really pick up on.
Teris was talking to me, speaking into my mind every few minutes, but I couldn’t stop focusing on the bears long enough to speak with him.
Soon enough, though, the fight would start.
Soon enough, he’d be next to me. Fighting with me. For me.
My mate.
Damn, I had missed him.
“North told Priel there’s some kind of monster above you,”Teris said, his voice calmer than it had been when he spoke to me a few minutes earlier.“That you’re holding the bears, waiting for it to attack. It terrifies me that you’re not tucked away with the other ex-human females, but I trust you to take care of yourself. You use my name the second it’s safe to do so, baby.”
He kept talking to me, even though I couldn’t respond, and the words calmed me as I watched the monster’s scales pass over our heads again.“I’m not allowing a repeat of what happened twenty years ago. You call me to you when you get the okay, or I’ll drag your ass out to the middle of this damn ocean with me. And it’s full of sea monsters from what I can tell, so you don’t want to be here.”
My lips curved upward, just the tiniest bit.
North looked over at me, and when I gave her a questioning look, she nodded at me.
Though I couldn’t read her mind or anything, I knew she’d been looking at the future for us, trying to find out how this fight was going to go so we could try to change it if it wasn’t working in our favor.
Her nod meant it was going to turn out okay, in the end.
It didn’t mean nothing bad would happen.
It didn’t even mean we would all be safe.
But it meant that we were going to win the battle, and this creature wasn’t going to be the end of us.
She mouthed the words, “Trust the bears.”
And I nodded right back, something within me settling.
I was right.
This was what they were created for.
Our world was bigger, now, and more dangerous. But between our fae magic, our beast forms, our connections with the klynnas, and now our bears?
We were going to make it.
Someone pounded on some kind of drum a long way to my left.
We had bears there—plenty of bears.
They were everywhere.
And apparently, we were ready for the fight.
