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I was rubbing my temples by now, so stressed out that I felt my brain was going to turn into pudding at any moment. “No.”
“Alright, well, I’ll keep in touch, then. Don’t you worry about your brother or his man, you got me?” she added. “If I can do nothin’ else, I can get him right comfortable.”
Zazie frowned, and I saw her eye twitch before she swallowed hard, shifting her diamonds on her lap. “Thank you.”
“De rien, cher,” came the warm reply before the phone silenced, and the call ended.
We all stared dejectedly at our diamonds that sat on Zazie’s lap. She fiddled around with the bracelet, deep in thought, until she plopped it back onto her wrist.
“What should we do?” she asked me, finally looking up.
I looked at Caspian, and he was looking at me, too.
Why was I always the one that had a plan?
I sighed. “Well, you sleep and get some strength up,” I replied wearily. “We’ve had a long day, and I can’t think with so much gold sitting on my esophagus. But I’ll think of something.” I patted her knee. “Got me? Get some sleep as best as you can.”
She sighed and nodded, and I climbed into the bed next to her after pulling off my jacket. “You want me to put those diamonds somewhere?—?”
“No,” she pulled both diamonds up to her stomach as she laid down.
It wasn’t too long before she fell asleep. I saw over her head that Caspian hadn’t even left his seat. He was looking at me thoughtfully.
“What?”
“Nothing. Maybe the witch is right… Maybe there’s a way,” Caspian replied. “Maybe we should stay and finish this?”
“Our parents couldn’t finish it. How many kin did you lose to djinns during the war? The war where Seraphus was the leader?” I reminded him, hoping he’d get serious.
“Yeah, but we’re different than our parents, Murtagh,” he argued. “We’re earth-realm dragons now with our sweet little djinn mate. We are nothing like them. If anyone can find a way out of this… Isn’t it us?”
I shook my head. “I don’t know, Caspian.”
He got up and groaned. “I’m going to get some tums and sleep. I’ve had too much Russian food.”
I snorted, then looked down at the rocks around Zazie.
I blinked. For a second, it almost seemed like they were… glowing.
I shook my head. It didn’t make sense, and I was half-sick after eating so many people.
“I need to lie down myself,” I admitted, laying my head on the pillow next to Zazie, staring at the diamonds until my eyes slowly closed.
I awoke to something poking my eye. After grumbling and pulling myself awake, I could see Zazie standing over me. I imagined, looking at the light from the windows, that I must have been sleeping for some hours.
“You guys wake up!” she snapped.
I startled, sitting up, and then palming Caspian’s face until he was awake too.
He grumbled and rolled over, but in the next second he startled awake, seeming to remember that being woken up non-gently could easily mean… “Seraphus?” his eyes opened wide.
“No,” she huffed, then pivoted her leg to the side. “See?” The bandages and gauze, bloody and forgotten, were piled up in a messy heap near her feet.
She was only wearing panties, but her thighs were beautiful, unmarked. Flawless; no gunshot wound in sight.
I pulled myself to my feet quickly and got up just to kneel on the ground in front of her in the next moment, looking at the other thigh, too, in case my memory had failed me. “What happened? How is this possible?”
She smirked and lifted her chin at the diamonds.
