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“So here I am!” he crowed.
Then demanded, “Now you.”
“We must make shelter for the night,” Kai said instead, avoiding the command to divulge his experiences.
“It’s not sundown yet,” Ere argued. “Stop sidestepping the issue. You can’t avoid telling me forever. I’ll just hound you until you cave in. You know I have ways to make you talk. I always get my way.”
Kai knew full well that Ere’s way was Rai’s way: nagging, pleading, threatening, goading. Poking and prodding until he either pounded the male into the ground or gave him what he wanted.
In dragon form, Kai would have no compunction about beating Rai into silence. The only way Rai escaped back then was to take flight. But in this fragile human form, he didn’t have that luxury. Besides, the blond warrior would never let Kai lay a heavy finger on his Mate.
Kai growled low in his throat in defeat before he began in a clipped, impatient tone.
“I died at the end of the goddesses’ war. When I next opened my eyes, it was to total darkness. A being, I suppose the Jade Emperor, told me he has judged my soul to be useful. That I will be sent to help humans when he deemed it was needed. The end.”
Ere waited for more. When nothing else was forthcoming, he threw up his hands.
“Come on!” he cried, “Don’t stop there. So, the Jade Emperor sent you down to earth like his other dragons, right? Like Cloud Drako, my dragon trainer. And Rui and Divina.”
“I do not know these people.”
“Do you know any other dragons in the Celestial Realm? Where do you stay when you’re not on a mission?” Ere asked, rapid fire.
“When I am sent down, I start in a human body. A different body each time,” Kai explained shortly.
“I transform into a dragon when it is time. I die fighting. I awake to darkness when it is time for another mission. And the cycle repeats.”
“You don’t interact with any other dragons or any of the inhabitants of the Celestial Realm? Does the JE keep you in solitary confinement or something?”
Kai merely grunted.
“Well, that’s just unfair!” Ere exclaimed, full of umbrage on Kai’s behalf.
Kai didn’t know why the other male cared, but a strange sort of warmth filled his chest nevertheless.
“I should report the JE to the godly abuse hotline or something,” Ere seethed. “He can’t treat you like that. You’re a living, breathing, feeling being, not a weapon to be used and discarded at will!”
Kai stayed silent, letting the male vent. It felt…goodto have someone fighting for him, even if it was useless. He appreciated the sentiment.
“Just you wait. When we get back, the JE and I willhave words. I’m not letting him get away with this. I’ll refuse to go on any more quests if he doesn’t treat you better.”
“I am let out to subdue disorderly conduct,” Kai volunteered, as if that was a special treat indeed.
A dog let out to do its business.
He didn’t worry for himself, but he didn’t want Ere to get in trouble because of him.
“Like when you subdued the red dragon, Merlin?” Ere prompted.
Instead of focusing on the fact that Kai was sometimes released from “solitary confinement,” he only seemed to get madder.
“Like you’re some kind of celestial bouncer? A muscled dragon goon?”
Kai didn’t see how this was a bad thing. It described him well.
“By the way, were you really going to bite a chunk out of Red?” Ere asked as an aside.
“Hungry,” was all Kai said.
