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But he was afraid.
It had been so long since he’d been anything but a forgotten monster, rotting in a deep, dark hole. He’d been conditioned to starve and thirst. His stomach churned because it didn’t want to be tested with digestion. It wanted to remain empty. His mouth wanted to stay dry.
Most of all, the Master’s threat loomed in the back of his mind.
Always.
You will have fourteen days to make her fall in love with you and give you her heart. You will bring her to me when it is time. Willing and docile.
While you are in the human realm, you will be in your human form. You are too weak to transform to dragon without the nourishment only I can provide. Instead, as human, you will interact with that world as if you were always born to it.
But do not be deceived that you belong there. If you try to escape while you are free, your friends will die a thousand, horrible deaths. I will bring them back to life just so I can kill them again.
Do not be seduced by the luxuries you find in the human world. Do not fall prey to temptation. Failing your mission will not lead to death in case you were hopeful for that fate. It will bring you right back here.
To me.
And if you think the last two thousand years gave a new definition to misery…
Think again.
There had been a time, eons ago now it seemed, when Sai had not been alone in this world. Condemned to this inescapable hell.
There had been a time when he’d been brave and carefree, deep beneath the seas. When he’d fought gods and monsters alongside two other dragons and their Beasts.
Rai was the first, leading the eagle flights. Kai was next, taking charge of the predatory cats. And Sai had his serpents. His friends. His family.
He’d never been as defiant and as flamboyant as Rai, nor as stalwart and strong as Kai. But he’d fought hard, and he never gave up.
Despite that he failed in the end.
They all failed. The War of the Gods destroyed everything. Only a few survived.
Rai had been killed. Kai had disappeared.
And Sai…
He’d been wounded so badly he slept for thousands of years at the bottom of the ocean, trapped beneath a mountain.
Until, over time, hot lava coursed through the rocks and cracked its very foundation, breaking him free. But he hadn’t even taken his first unburdened breath before something ensnared him and dragged him into darkness…
And now, here he was.
Already three days and four nights into his mission, sandwiched between two human women, pretending to be in full command of a carriage he’d never driven before.
Thankfully, there was little he needed to do but sit there with the reins in one hand. For, the horses—or rather, unicorns—walked according to their own sense of direction in perfect synchronization, taking them presumably where they wanted to go.
Unicorns!
They’d been kelpies, flesh-eating goblin horses, before Brigid touched or looked in their direction. And now, they were unicorns.
Even Sai had never seen a unicorn before. He thought they only existed in myths.
Apparently, he was living in one of those tales at the moment.
“You have been very quiet, my lord,” Lady Brigid murmured to his left in a low, soothing voice that only he could hear.
“I thought you wanted to know me. Are you planning to learn by divination? Or are there questions you’d like to ask?”
