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Then, I noticed that my dragon princes stood several yards away, staring at me in awe.
They had tried, I knew. But in the end, they just couldn’t leave me alone with Elvey. They had to come for me, and just in time to see me glow in the snow.
“The lesson is over for today,” Elvey said in a tired voice, his eyes dark and fathomless, as if stars had fallen in them and kept falling.
I did not want him to fall.
He was gone before I could say a word.
CHAPTER 20
Not long after Elvey’s departure, I called out the White Light, and once again it refused to surface. My Light magic seemed to emerge only when he was around, but there would be times I’d have to face my enemies without him.
I’d given up hope of obtaining Arianrhod’s support. I wouldn’t be able to show the humans that the realm was mine without the cooperation of the land’s magic. My White Light magic was my only bet to go against Lysandra when her coronation took place, which was two days away.
There was no way I could muster my lethal magic in two days. And even if I took out the witch that way, I doubted the humans would go along with my plan and side with me.
There might still be war—dragons versus humans.
But I couldn’t let Lysandra take the realm.
I would just face whatever consequences after my final showdown with Lysandra.
I’d once been the Fury beast. I could still be ruthless.
I had to be honest with myself. My chance of stomping Lysandra was slim with such fickle magic in me. She was a very powerful witch who had probably practiced her dark magic when she was a toddler. And I was really rusty.
Anxiety flooded me.
Beads of sweat turned cold on my forehead as I failed again and again to bring out the White Light. It didn’t cause a wrinkle, not even when my mates aided me with their magic of ice, fire, and lightning, despite that it had worked once when I vanquished Segomo.
My frustration poured out of my every pore, and my mates watched me cautiously.
The day had receded, and the night came.
I saw stars in front of me while there were no stars in the sky but endless, pale grey.
When I stumbled in the next bout, my mates insisted that I take a break.
Summoning such a great, terrible magic was consuming. Elvey had warned me not to exhaust myself. If I pushed myself over my limit, I could even kill myself.
“Make it your second nature,” he’d said merrily.
When he’d seen that I wanted to smack him just for saying that, he’d smirked. “I don’t blame you, Daisy darling. You’ve been rusty for centuries. It won’t come to you like a snap of the fingers, but you still need to make it do. You need to let it know you own it.”
Own it my butt.
“That’s enough practice for today.” Rai ended my protest and scooped me into his arms and carried me to our room.
While I lay on them in bed, my head on Rai’s chest and my ankles on Blaze as he massaged my sore feet, they debriefed me on the plan of our final strike on Lysandra. We’d make our entrance before she could vow her oath as the new queen.
“We must time it right,” Iokul said, kissing my lips softly.
Their affection and comfort sent me to a sweet dreamland until a voice, softer than a snowflake, called me in my mind.
I fluttered open my eyes, still sprawled on my mates’ bodies. They had all fallen asleep, worried, yet content smiles on their lips.
Come, Daisy, the voice urged.This is for you alone. I put your mates to sleep for now.
