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Penina kicked and giggled, reaching for her mother. Ven held her and put her on her hip. She looked at the line of house staff and guests. “Amelia! You look... sleepy.”
Amelia walked forward in her dark purple outfit and smiled. “I usually am. You are looking prosperous.”
“Thanks. A little sleepy but really impressed with what I accomplished today. The link with Reynaldo is filled with giggles.”
Amelia looked at the two little bundles and then up at the alpha. “Cute little people.”
Ven smiled. “They are called babies, Amelia.”
Elly laughed. “Are you good with Pen for a bit?”
“Of course. Oh, shit. You haven’t been to the water yet. Gogogo.” Ven waved her off.
Elly nodded to Amelia and bolted out the door.
The ocean called to her, and when she got there, she stripped and walked to the water. Introducing herself was important. She felt the ocean tickle her toes, and when it recognized what it was tasting, a surge of water covered her with a bubble that went from head to toe. She smiled and quietly asked it if it could show her the island.
She rose on a flat puddle of water, and the ocean pulled her along at an incredible speed to round the coastline toward the volcano. She crouched, a strand of water came up, her puddle turned into a surfboard, and when they left the area of the village, the water and strands of kelp became a suit. She focused and rushed past the jagged rocks, seeing the cracks in some parts of the hills and steam in others. It was going to blow, and it was going to blow soon. She cruised along while dolphins raced her, and the slow bellow of whales sounded in the distance. Something flashed underneath her, and then another flash happened. Her board turned into a sailboard, and she swung around to return to the village.
Another flash under her, and then a wall of water rose in front of her. She hadn’t seen a sea dragon before, but fuck, he was huge. She did what she could and dropped into the water and pulled herself past him when a shark with human eyes pulled up next to her and nudged her. Abrasive fuck.
She moved to his dorsal fin, and he sped up with the dragon following them at the same time. It was kind of fun as long as she kept a thick layer of water between her and him.
A heavy rockslide made her ride flick and turn to the side. She pushed away from the heat and rose out of the water on a column of fluid. She had expected a lava dragon to be smoother, but he was glowing with his tail lashing, covered with an aerated jagged surface.
“Keahi, what the fuck?” She rose higher, and he made a soft sound. He turned so his red-orange eye was fixed on her.
He held out his palm and nodded. She crossed her arms. “Absolutely not.”
He shrugged and sliced his hand under her, and when she was cut off from support, she dropped into his palm. “Twat.”
He snorted, and steam shot from his nostrils. She looked over the edge of his palm and down at the water. He closed his clawed fingers around her.
She should have jumped, but when the smooth fingers closed in on her, it was a weird full-body hug with thermal properties.
She glared at him as he sniffed her. He pulled her under his beaky nose and sniffed so deeply that her hair pulled upward.
“Dude. That’s not right. Stop snorting me.”
There was a sound behind her, and she tried to look, but he shifted his index finger, and she couldn’t see past him. There was cool snuffling behind her, and the shadow that cooled her head got thicker as he got closer.
Keahi snorted and growled, pulling her away from the cool air circling her head. She wasn’t quite sure which male was the sea dragon, but he followed Keahi’s hand. The blast of water struck, and a cloud of steam blasted toward her. She pulled water from the ocean, wrapped it around her, and dropped into the water as the dragons started the equivalent of a slap fight. The shark came by, and she grabbed the fin. He pulled her toward the shore and carried her out of the water.
“Oh, hey, Mano.”
He grinned. “Good evening, Eliana. You are very fast underwater.”
“As are you. Scratchy though.”
He sighed and sat down on the sand with her in his lap. She looked out and watched the dragons blasting fire and water at each other.
“Oh, dude. He’s making an island.” The lava being thrown was striking Nalu and cooling as it dropped. It was a glowing pile of molten rock. She frowned, reached for the water, and made a bulkhead of moving water around them while she pushed the nearby fish past the barrier. She frowned and focused.
Mano whispered, “What are you doing? I can feel you are doing something.”
“Making the water equivalent of a fire break. I don’t want to be eating poached fish for days.”
“Aren’t you considerate?”
