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Raven nodded. “I’ll freeze you and Blaze here will get to have a tasty snack.”
“You named it?”
“Him. Notit. He seems to like it.”
I shifted to get a better view of the scaled monster. His large, green, snakelike jaw gaped open, a triangular black tongue hanging out the side. His cupcake-sized eyes were slitted, so he wasn’t asleep, yet the yellow irises weren’t tracking me or my mate.
“You knocked him unconscious?”
“Not exactly.”
The space filled with energy and I tasted ozone in the air. “What’s happening?”
“Not much since you’re ruining my concentration. Just be quiet for a minute and I’ll deal with you next.”
Her threatening tone sent all the blood in my head straight to my cock. There was a good chance I’d fuck her in this meadow if she kept it up.
“There. All done.” Raven lifted her arms to stretch before rising to her feet.
Blaze slow-blinked a few times, then rolled quickly onto his large paws, stretching out his massive bat-like wings. I made to step between them. A burst of power blocked my movement.
“You can go now, Blaze.”
“He understands you?”
She ignored me, her attention on the wyvern currently glaring at her. I was close to ghosting again and taking Raven with me. Draven could pull Lyric into shadow form with him and I was reasonably sure I could do the same with Raven.
“I’m sorry, but I’m not ready for that kind of commitment,” she said softly. “You're still so young. A toddler, really, and I’m not sure you understand what you tried to do. So take some time and think about it. I undid what you started, but if you come at me like that again, I’ll be forced to do something you won’t like. Do you understand?”
Blaze snorted and Raven grinned.Holy shit.They really did understand one another.
“I’ll tell you what. I’ll come back here, to this exact spot, in one year exactly,” she pointed up to the sky, “when the sun and moon are in these positions, and we’ll discuss it further. I think you’ll still be too young, but if you can approach me without aggression, I’ll know you’ve learned something.”
He lowered his head and Raven patted the bridge of his nose. “Go on. One cycle around the sun. Don’t forget.”
The wyvern’s body lowered, then abruptly pushed off the ground, its wings lifting it up into the air and over the flames. We watched it fly off until it was out of sight.
“Explain,” I commanded, putting my sword back in its scabbard.
Raven turned, facing me. “Do not presume you have permission to order me to do a godsdamned thing. You never will.”
My lips twitched and her face flushed. “It’s not any fun ordering you about if I have your permission, Little Bird.” I shouldn’t have been taunting her like this.
Her weight shifted, her body angling in the way soldiers are taught when they were about to engage. A slight breeze slid over my skin, bringing with it a sweet and pungent scent. The molecules between us quivered with electricity.
Raven’s palms and fingers undulated as she pulled the loose power into her. Her body gave off a slight glow, and her incandescent eyes zeroed in on my own. She was brimming with magic. It seemed she hadn’t had a chance to work off all the excess and I was the new target.
“I’m guessing you didn’t get a chance to spar?” I asked, taking a step back.
She stepped with me. “Blaze attacked but I didn’t have the heart to hurt him.”
“But he attacked you.”
“Not to hurt me.”
“What was he doing?”
“He was seeking to fuse.”
