Page 14 of Dragon Me Through Space

Scout beeped and showed me the thermal scans were blank. The Hunters gave off no thermal readings.

“Well, figure out a way to track them so they don’t sneak up on me again,” I ordered Scout.

Scout made a sorrowful little beep and slid back behind my ear.

“Great, now Scout’s sad. It won’t do anything for the rest of the day,” I whispered, my arms propped up on Gage’s back as we ran.

Zeke shook his head at me. “You are an interesting creature, Diamond.”

The ship had started to hover a few feet off the ground with the loading bay doors still open.

Gage and Zeke leapt up into the ship with ease, not even grunting from jumping so high.

Could I have made that jump?

“We’re on. Hit it!” Gage said into his communication device.

The doors slammed shut and the ship accelerated.

Gage set me down and both Dragonkin scowled at me.

“Well, that was fun, wasn’t it?” I asked with a wide smile.

CHAPTER FOUR

All of the Dragonkin sat in chairs on the command deck of the ship.

They had summoned me here for an emergency meeting after we’d left Porantine.

I glanced at Gage and knew he’d ratted me out when he kept his eyes focused on anything except me.

“I think it’s time you told us a bit more about yourself,” Preston said.

I folded my arms across my chest. “I’ve only known you two days. I don’t think I need to say anything.”

“You put my friends in danger,” Preston said.

I shook my head. “No, they put themselves in danger. I told them to leave me behind and to let me handle it. They chose to stay and endanger themselves.”

“Why did the Underlord of Porantine think he had a claim to you?” Gage asked.

“You really want to know? That’s a pretty long conversation that involves a lot of back story.” I didn’t actually want to give them the full story, but since they’d been put in danger and Gage had refused to sell me, even for such a high amount, part of me felt like I owed it to them.

“Yes, we really want to know,” Zeke said.

“Where are we headed?” I asked first.

“Far from Porantine,” Wayne answered as he typed on a laptop, lights reflecting quickly on his face. “We don’t want to risk those creatures coming after you again.”

“Or the Hunters,” Preston said.

“You know about them?” I asked, my eyes wide. Usually only the locals knew about them.

“We spent a few months on Porantine at one point,” Preston answered.

“What were you doing on Porantine for that long?” I asked. And why hadn’t I seen them? Oh, they’d probably been there while I was locked up in Charles’s lab.

“We were on Porantine searching,” Zeke answered.