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“We will see a dragon flying across the field, and Mander will notify us that we can return home.”
“Oh. Right. I forgot that he was here.”
Elioth chuckled. “The canine aspect does take getting used to. As long as you don’t confuse him for a natural wolf, all should be fine.”
She helped him build the fire back up, checked on the dogs, and then settled in to heat up some soup. Wilderness training had seemed pointless when you were dealing with dragons, but right now, it came in handy.
Kana kept her sensitivity to heat signatures open, and when Mander returned, Kabyl landed nearby.
It seemed that the rescue was about to begin in earnest.
Chapter Six
Mander shifted to a naked human and went to Kabyl’s claws, catching the man that spilled out when she released him.
He held the hiker and carried him toward the fire. The man was awake but chattering.
Kana got the soup ready, and when he was seated next to the fire, she got him to drink the soup and then said, “I am going to be very careful, but this works in theory.”
The man gave her a dazed look. “What?”
She took the barely hot liquid he had just gulped down and spread the warmth through his body, from the core outward. The cold in his limbs fought back, but she managed to get him warm in about thirty minutes. No one spoke during the procedure.
When his body was evenly warm, if a few degrees cooler than normal, they bundled him up into the sled, and Kana was tucked in behind him to keep him warm. They headed back to the tiny town. Kabyl flew overhead while Mander led the team from the front, and Elioth called out the commands to the sled dogs so that Mander could override them.
Kana kept the man’s body temperature up as she was hauled along like a bag of flour with heat talents. He was lying against her, and she wrapped her limbs around him, monitoring the fluctuations as his body settled and struggled for equilibrium. Her focus was on raising his body to a normal level and keeping it there. She found herself humming some music that she had heard Eltrinia play when she was dancing with her djinn.
The man she was holding relaxed, and his breathing was even. His body temperature stabilized as they headed toward the town, and his breathing was easy without her needing to warm him.
They pulled up to the ranger station, where Mander went inside and started a fire, using the communication system to report that the man had been found and was in need of an airlift.
Kana bit her lip, helped the man into the station, and settled him on the small bed. “There you go.”
She drew the blanket up around the man, who looked rough and rugged, and she patted his cheek.
He frowned. “Thank you. You are a local?”
“Um... no. I am apprenticing.”
“My thanks to your instructor.”
“I will pass it along. Were you walking outside for entertainment?”
He cleared his throat. “Uh, yes.”
“You aren’t good at it.”
Mander snorted. “Kana, step away from him. He needs to rest.”
Kana nodded and backed away. “I will go get more firewood.”
Chapter Seven
“Kabyl, what is a geologist?” Kana turned the page in her book and scowled at it. Listening was easier than reading.
“A person who studies rock formations and the layers of strata that make up the foundational stones of the earth,” Elioth answered.
“And what is a vulcanologist?”
