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They were glowing, their shining turning off and on, and I could almost hear a high frequency in my ear.
“Can you hear them?” Zazie asked, petting her hand down my shoulder. Her smile was almost… childlike. Her tone was downright eager as her hand was shaking my shoulder with excitement. “Can you?”
I shook my head. “I can hear… something,” I admitted.
The noise became piercing.
“What the hell is that?” Caspian moaned, cupping his hands tightly over his ears.
“The diamonds,” she said flatly, her frown at us looking almost embarrassed now. “They’re calling you idiots.”
“What on—?” Caspian demanded, looking at them and almost poking one of the diamonds with a finger-turned-claw, carefully approaching.
“Don’t piss them off,” Zazie said, looking into a drawer and finding a pair of pants. “They have a plan.”
CHAPTER 26
Caspian
I didn’t like this one bit.
For starters, I didn’t like that diamonds were talking to my mate and not to me. My mate was a twenty-two-year-old baby, and I was an ancient, powerful dragon. Why didn’t they want to talk to me? I had plenty of experience with diamonds!
Secondly, I didn’t like their plan. I didn’t like it at all.
“Can you stop thinking so loud? You’re pissing them off. They can feel your look,” Zazie told me tersely, holding them on her lap back in her seat. She was on her third Shirly Temple.
“Their plan is bad.”
“It’s risky,” she admitted, and looked like she was going to try to go another round of trying to talk us into it.
“Which makes it bad,” I assured. “Do you know how close you’d have to be to Seraphus to pull that off?”
“Very close,” she admitted. “But Wendy said he’s by her place. I’m sure if we ask, she’d have one of her team figure out where he’s holing up by her.”
“That is not the biggest problem. The problem is that this is untested and you need to be touching him to capture him,” Murtagh said succinctly, highlighting the pearls of the diamonds’ stupid, stupid idea.
“How you think we can get him to touch you without eating you is insanity to me,” I admitted frankly. “Wishful thinking at best.”
“And may I remind you, that if it doesn’t work…” Murtagh snapped his fingers. “That’s it. No more earth. Sorry everyone else!”
Zazie frowned and stubbornly looked down at her diamonds. “They are pretty certain.”
I gave her an exhausted look. “Pretty certain, huh?”
“Yeah.”
“They used ‘pretty’ as a qualifier?” Murtagh asked.
She glared at us. Glared!
“They’re being modest, you can tell.”
“They’re rocks!” I reminded, incredulous at the idea that they could not just make plans, they could make good ones, and then be modest. “Rocks!” We couldn’t take direction from rocks, could we? Yeah, they were great. They felt good to hold, looking at them was mesmerizing, but plan-making was something rocks were not known for. Besides, they were out of their element. They hadn’t seen a djinn or dragon in millennia. One of them had been completely apart from society altogether!
“You see why this is a little much?” Murtagh asked, calmer than I was, but I knew that he was also quite firm on this idea never happening.
We weren’t going to let Zazie within a mile of Seraphus.
