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“No.”
“No?”
“You.” Hugh swallowed the excess of saliva pooling in his mouth. All of a sudden, he didn’t feel
so well. “It has to be you. Will you make it for me?”
“I… I suppose, sir. I can try.”
“He’s awfully sweet, isn’t he?” Perry asked in a soft voice, prompting Hugh and Finch to
simultaneously reply, “He is.”
Surprised, Hugh found the courage to open his eyes. The world was still spinning, but there
was Finch, the tips of his ears pink, as beautiful as anything. It was a travesty he wasn’t a
dragonet. Hugh would give away every last treasure in his hoard to make it so, but the world
didn’t work that way. Saddened, Hugh closed his eyes. Amorphous shapes and colors twisted
in the darkness, but the message behind them was clear—longing, need, and affection. The
longer he focused on those concepts, the less firm his grip on reality became until he had no
grip left at all and the darkness behind his eyelids lulled him to sleep.
“—but Drakes in particular can be clueless,” said Perry an indeterminate amount of time later
when Hugh regained a semblance of consciousness. The inside of his head was prickly and
he felt minty, like someone had turned his blood to menthol. “I wouldn’t dismiss him so quickly.
If you were to just tell him the truth—”
“Impossible.”
“Why?”
“I’m afraid that if I did, it would destroy what we already have.”
Hugh lost track of the conversation and drifted back to sleep. When he woke a while later, a
new voice was speaking. It belonged to that cake stealer, Everard. “How much?”
“I’m not entirely sure, but possibly an entire nugget. Hugh seemed to be under the impression
that was a small amount suitable for testing the… product.”
“Good lord.”
“It was my fault. I should have warned our hosts upon discovery.”
“Your fault?” Perry laughed. “Darling, this was the most fun I’ve ever had while being
kidnapped. I imagine Sebastian will break down the doors any minute now and carry me off
into the sunset, and—if I may be frank—I cannot wait.”
