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With another mountainous effort, I try to open my eyes. I only manage a little peek before they close on their own once more.This can’t be good.
Footsteps make me still. But what confuses me is they don’t sound like the heavy footsteps of a 30-foot dragon. They sound…orcish. Like maybe the size of a spring or a soro. I try to draw in a breath, and I can’t catch any familiarity in the scent.
“Good, you’re awake.” A deep voice says, and I can feel the presence not far from my body.
I battle opening my eyes again, but it is brief once more. What have they done to me? Why can’t I move? I hear a second pair of footsteps and this time these ones come closer. I tense inwardly.
I am in high alert when I feel a body loom over me, and cold hands touch my eyes. They slide down to my nose and then mouth. I draw air in a loud gasp like I just came from underwater.
What the hell?
My eyes fly open, face feeling lighter. My eyes land on a Soko. I growl loudly, barring my tusks for them. They are using their magic to bind me.
I thrash trying to get the rest of my body free so I can do away with their pathetic existence, but I am bound so tight, I can’t even move my head. Only my eyes, nose and mouth can move, and I can’t seem to form coherent sentences in my head to talk. They only flinch a little and I see fear in their eyes but other than that, they step back quietly.
“Stop struggling.” The voice that was here first speaks.
My eyes narrow on the figure that emerges from behind the Soko. I can’t keep them from furrowing.
What is this? A human?
His lips lift a little at the corner at my perusal. What is he? I thought I was taken by dragons. But before me stands a human. A tall human man with brown skin. They lift the garment on their arms and their sleeves reveal scales, orange scales with black highlights.It’s him.
“You catch on fast. What shall I call you?” He steps closer, now looking down at me and I don’t like it. I glare. And I am getting even more furious.
“Unbind me.” I grit through my teeth.
“I don’t think I will just yet. I’ve seen what you can do.” He says, linking his fingers in front of him, regarding me with curiosity but also distance.
“Why am I here?” I demand.
“You may have something I need.” He says. “Though I would like to get it freely before we resort to other means. But that all depends on you, of course.”
“What do you want?”
His lips force a hard line before he shakes his head slowly. “You need to recover from the toxins then we can talk. Apologies for that by the way. It’s been a while since I’ve used my fumes and I may have gone overboard.” He says, then he turns on his heel.
“Come back here!” I order.
His movement stops before he looks me over his shoulder. “We aren’t trying to harm you, but you must heal. You have been through much.”
The Soko follows him out like his servant, leaving me with more questions than answers and I don’t like it.
I roar after them with all the strength I can gather. I set out to free my people and I end up bound by a dragon.
Hours pass very slowly as my mind runs, asking all the questions I have no answers to yet. After a while, I elect to not focus on my home but on the present and preserving all my efforts on getting free.
I need to figure out what they did to me and try to get free. I could really use one of Aria’s mother’s elixirs right this moment.
My mind goes over every reason a Soko could be serving as a servant to a dragon. Are the two nations coexisting or is one the dominant to the other? But that would make less sense considering how the Soko have harassed my people.
I need to find answers and a part of me believes some of those answers will be found here at Ragu.
I don’t know when, but I fall asleep.
I jolt awake when I feel something cold on my torso. I know instinctively it’s not Aria and my hand moves with an incredible fluidity. I latch on to a body part before I try to open my eyes, but they don’t.
What the frack?
