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So well, that his own life might be forfeit because of it.
A beautiful rare dragon might disappear from this world because of her. More importantly,Saimight perish because of her.
How could she ever bear it?
She couldn’t, Brigid knew. Shewouldn’t.
Because she wasn’t going to let him die. There was too much she wanted to know. She needed more time with him. And ultimately, the world would be a lesser place without this particularly special sea dragon.
“Tell me everything you know, Lady Brigid,” Ben said. “About the prince. About yourself. Leave nothing out.”
“We’ll tell you about where we come from as well,” Annie added. “As long as we’re all suspending disbelief.”
Brigid spoke as quickly and as succinctly as she could, revealing everything she knew. Things that she hadn’t shared with anyone, or even written down in stories.
The world as she saw it. Her dreams, both waking and unconscious. The other world she lived in when she dreamed. The magical creatures that dwelled there with her.
The pale prince and the silver dragon.
By the time she was done, they had arrived at a relatively secluded dock upon the Thames. The three of them worked together to drag Sai out of the phaeton, and carried him carefully and furtively toward the edge of the river.
“What does the man eat?” Annie huffed. “He weighs a ton! Wouldn’t know it to look at him. He’s so lean.”
“Must be the dragon in him,” Ben gritted out, carrying most of the burden among the three of them.
“It’s in the bones and muscles I suppose.”
“In that case, his muscles must be made of iron,” Annie declared.
“And his bones, of steel.”
Finally, they laid him on the grassy river bank, all three of them heaving from the exertion.
“What do we do now? Just toss him in the water?” Ben asked.
“Let me,” Brigid said.
She knelt by Sai, gathered some of the water in her cupped hands and poured it over his face.
Aside from his eyelids fluttering, there was no other reaction.
“Help me,” she gestured for her friends. And together, they rolled him closer to the river’s edge, so that one arm dangled into the water.
Sai’s face flickered again, and his breath seemed to deepen on a sigh.
Annie took a bracing breath herself and said, “Let’s submerge him.”
“He’s going to be foul when he gets out,” Annie declared, twitching her nose at the river’s smell.
“If he gets out on his own steam, I’ll be more than happy,” Brigid said.
Thus, they carried him directly into the river, getting their own clothes soaked with frigid water in the process.
“I hope this works,” Annie said.
“It will either strengthen him or give him hypothermia and do him in for good.”
Slowly, as if his body was truly made of heavy metal or stones rather than flesh and blood, Sai sank into the depths of the river despite the shallowness of where they stood.
