Chapter 52
“yes, mother” Neeiles huffs out. With sura still staring him down, he uncorks a vial that hangs around his neck. Green and purple swirled liquid floats out of it to form a sphere. Holding his hand out the sphere settles in his palm. The swirls change shape and directions many times. Shaking his head the liquid flows back into the vial. “I can not see this girl. How my mother was able to read her I have no clue. What I do see is fighting and a lot of it. The people don’t change but the places behind them do. It's like time is mixed up. Like when Remy broke the vase and Kal tried to glue it back together but he got grans to face on uncle Jex's body. The same but different you know.” looking not at everyone seeking understanding but that's the thing with seers they see things we can't even begin to understand so explaining something does not always make sense. And this is why the humans scream everyone is a witch.
“Here take this and fly out with thane’s group. I have your mothers going north and south with teams and Mia is locked in her room still healing from the witch. If you get close do not and I mean it young man do not let your sister out.” my father's eyes flash bright red and orange making me swallow hard before I nod and slowly back away heading over to where thane is with another twenty men and females. “young lord” he bows to me. “thane. So what is the plan?” I ask with a gulp he asks “can you carry someone like can someone you know well up your father made it seem like oh Ummm?” he flushes “you asking if I can fly with someone on my back? Then yes I can. Will I? not just for fun or because someone wants to ride a dragon.” rolling my eyes humans and fairy tales of riding dragons have made their way into the shifter's libraries. “but this is to look for the prince so I can carry up to five on my back.” his shoulders dropping in relief. Its true dragons don’t do a lot of sharing about our cans and cants or wills and won't that's why you ask? Easy if you don’t know what I am capable of you won't challenge me on a whim and I don’t get asked to do favors as the witch's doing. Even the fae from time to time finds that when someone finds out they can influence something people are always asking for you to do it. So by being a mystery no one knows. Just like the phoenix myth. One human stumbled on a dragon's hatch date. How they got so close to hell fire is beyond me but they did and saw the birth of a dragon. The shell burns away and a small feathered dragon is found in the center of the fire and ash. Needing to stay in the fire for two full days and nights before they can be taken from the hell fire. He ran home telling everyone about the firebird. Wrote stories and painted images. And now they are all still searching for a flaming bird. See helps to let their minds make up your stories. It's easier to go along with what they already believe.
A few more dragons join each taking five riders. Some fae can fly as they have wings but they cant carry anyone as I am strong as a man but a thousand times more in my dragon body. Having told them all to grab a scale under my top scales as they have a rougher texture and are better for holding than my outer scales which are slick and shiny and hard as they are armor. Water beads up on my scales sliding off. So not the best for holding on and hoping not to fall off my back. They all nod in understanding. So one at a time we shift lowering to allow them to climb on before taking off into the sky. Thane having wings himself will be leading us to the area my father wants to be searched. The farther I get from the lake the more I feel a soft ache in my chest and the deep longing to go back. Huffing out I should myself if Ashley was in trouble I would feel it. Pulling my feet up against my underside I flap my huge wings sending up forward following the fae. Watching his owl-like wings flapping behind him I start to wonder what Ashley's wings look like and how often she uses them. Then I start to wonder if she would want to ride in my dragon form. Just the thought has me purring. The yelps from my back tell me the goblins and two trolls are not as comfortable on my back as they seemed. Swinging my big head back to see them they all look to be shitting themselves. Huffing a small steam puff from my nose before I swing it back to follow thane.
“goblins and trolls what can you do. They make for good fighters but they don’t have much going on upstairs.” a young male says as he comes up next to my head. Tilting my head letting him know I heard and understood then I nodded. He chuckles sounds of bells fill the air. “Jjyankal, stop that right now how did you? When did you? Your mother is going to kill me. I do apologize young lord my son who is supposed to be home must have snuck behind.” why they want to talk to you when you are not in human form is beyond me. Fae doesn’t have the same mind-to-mind speaking as shifters so unless you are mated and marked by one you cant speak to them. There are still limitations just because you can mind to mind with your fae mate does not mean you can mind to mind others. Also, they cant mind linking another shifter the link is person to person. Now if said fae joined a pack then they can still mind to mind their family and also mind link in the pack through the pack link as they are all connected. So Ashley can mind link me but not my sister I can link her but not another fae well that's for normal dragons but as I am the heir to the clans I will one day be able to link any linking race. Until then only my father can do that as he is the leader of the clans.
