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Kai darted his tongue out to lick thisEh-ray’s hand surreptitiously.
His eyes widened at the familiar taste. He did indeed know this man. Or some version of him. So long ago, that the memories had blurred into dreams, and dreams had faded to imagination.
Ere patted him like old chums on the snout.
“You’re coming with us, earth dragon. It’ll be a blast!”
Just as he said the words, a blinding flash of light enveloped them all, defeated red dragon included.
Kai squeezed his eyes shut against the glare, and when he opened them, he was no longer on top of the mountain. Nor was he in dragon form.
Instead, the pristine opulence of the Celestial Palace surrounded him. The red dragon had disappeared. So had the other man with long black hair who was not Ere.
And Kai was a human male dressed in a form-fitting, dark-colored attire of which he didn’t bother to discern the shade. He just cared that he was wearing it.
As opposed to being naked and unencumbered, which he much preferred over human trappings.
Already, the cloth made him itch. He scratched his balls, then his armpits. Humans grew hair in the most inconvenient places.
“Well, you certainly clean up nice,” Ere noted with a quirk of his mouth. “Scary scars and tattoos notwithstanding.”
Kai scowled and folded his arms, a low growl rumbling through his chest.
Looked like he was about to be sent down to earth on another mission. He never understood why he had to blend in as a human first. He always ended his stay in dragon form. Why not just send him into the heat of battle as a dragon and be done with it?
He would never understand the workings of the Jade Emperor’s devious, godly mind.
“Because you are supposed to learn something from each incarnation,” the Master answered his unspoken question, suddenly appearing out of thin air.
He regarded Kai shrewdly as he stroked his long white mustache and beard.
“But you never do. You never learn what it means to be human.”
Kai didn’t bother arguing with him out loud. Master didn’t like dragonlings who talked back to him.
In his mind, he thought,what’s so splendid about being human? I am a warrior dragon. That is all.
That wasn’t to say he didn’t occasionally enjoy human pleasures.
In any form, he lived to fight, drink hearty and feast upon succulent meat. In human form, he had the added convenience of unleashing his lusty appetites on willing wenches. He gorged on the pleasures of the flesh whenever he could.
Sleep. Eat. Shit. Fuck. Fight.
It wasn’t a bad existence. But given the choice, he’d still be a dragon over a man. It was so much simpler. A bloody battle beat a sweaty rutting any day.
“Hmm,” the Master mused, narrowing his eyes at Kai, as if he heard his thoughts, and Kai was a puzzle the ageless old man itched to take apart.
“Care to explain what’s going on?” Ere demanded of the Master, tetchiness in every syllable of his clipped words.
Kai cocked his head at the man.
Was he stupid or mad? Even Kai didn’t use that tone with the mysterious being.
The Master was known for delivering harsh punishments to those who displeased or disobeyed him. Who transgressed against the countless written and unwritten rules of this realm.
“Patience,long-er,” the Master intoned. “Though I don’t know why I bother to remind you of the virtue, since you have none.”
“Just so,” Ere agreed unabashedly. “If you know, why do you insist on keeping us in suspense? Why are we here this time? And since when is Kai a Celestial dragon?”
