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That didn’t seem to hinder Sai from tearing the demon apart with his bare hands yesterday. A creature who was twice as big and unfathomably strong. With teeth and claws that were sharper and harder than swords made of steel.
Ben wondered what Sai at full strength entailed.
It boggled the mind. And Ben had seen enough in his short human life that this was really saying something.
“You’re a sea dragon,” Ben finally completed the second part of his opening salvo after several long moments of pause.
“Yes,” Sai said brusquely.
With nothing else forthcoming.
Gotta love the animal spirits, Ben thought to himself.
Apart from Ere, every animal spirit, at least the ones who were Beasts versus Lesser Beasts, tended to be mostly mute.
Well, Ere didn’t really count in any case, because he was only turneddragon through Lily’s ungodly experiments.
Lily, also known as Lilith, also known as the Dark Goddess. Who finally met her comeuppance at the claws of the black dragon.
The point being—shifters who had the spirit of an animal, whether natural, like tigers, eagles and snakes; or supernatural, like dragons and phoenixes (or just the one phoenix since Sorin was unique), didn’t like to communicate with spoken words. Amongst their own kind, they could speak telepathically. Other immortal Kinds only had that ability between Mated couples.
At the moment, Ben wished he could read the thoughts behind Sai’s mysterious diamond eyes.
“The only one of your Kind?” Absent mind-reading, Ben would have to make do with mundane conversation.
“I do not know,” came the terse reply.
This was like pulling teeth.
Until…
“I was the first.”
Ben swiveled his entire torso, not just his head, to look at Sai, as an epiphany came to him.
“Truly? Then you know of Rai and Kai? The first—”
“Sky dragon and earth dragon,” Sai finished.
“Yes, they were my brothers.”
His silver-tipped black brows drew together a little in contemplation.
“Well, we hatched at around the same time, I suppose. The goddesses made us. We did not share parents as you humans do.”
“Honestly, I should have known even without your confirmation,” Ben mused. “I didn’t connect the dots when I heard the moniker ‘Prince Saiyan.’ But when Brigid called you Sai, I should have put two and two together. The name rhyming is a dead giveaway.”
He quirked his lips in amusement.
Sai simply slid him a bored sort of look, communicating without words that this conversation was wholly uninteresting.
Ben blinked at him.
“Don’t you see? Don’t you wonder how I know about your ancient hatchling brothers from—what?—tens of thousands of years ago? I know about the Age of the Gods and the Great War. I know about the Pure and Dark Goddesses.”
Sai continued looking at him with the same expression—an emotionless mask that gave nothing away.
“Don’t you care about what happened to your brothers?” Ben went on, watching closely for a flicker of…something. Some emotion or recognition or reminiscence.
