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I clung to her and whispered encouragement. My skin sizzled with the power of my blood that I hadn’t accessed except in my dreams.
In theory, the attack began with a targeted launch. Solstice was supposed to find the nearest enemy and force it upward into Topaz’s waiting talons.
Except, that only worked if the enemy responded with fear.
Wild Dragons had grown unpredictable since Nera’s defeat. My heart skipped a beat when the oversized dragon above us matched our speed.
And folded its wings… falling down onto us.
Crap!
Digging my heels into Solstice’s flank, I sent her a mental image of where I wanted her to go. She would instantaneously feed the instructions to Topaz and hopefully allow us to recover.
It went against our practice sessions, but what we’d practiced wasn’t going to work this time.
The Wild Dragon forced us down, so I sent Solstice where it wouldn’t have expected us to go.
Into the fray.
Four more dragons screeched at our approach, but they were unorganized. Solstice easily twisted between them.
Speed won the game right now, and I put my faith in Solstice to keep us out of range of their inky fire.
Darkness spewed from their maws and a battle cry of roars rolled up from the ground.
An army waited for us on the other side of the iron bars. Should we manage to escape, it would have to be by air, because ground travel certainly wasn’t an option.
The egg we needed to retrieve meant we were going to have to land, though, and as I craned my neck to spot it, a circle of Wild Dragons guarding the treasure told me that we weren’t going to be able to launch easily.
There are so many! I shot at Killian.
He agreed in my mind. One glance showed him holding his own against the Wild Dragon that pursued him. Topaz kept the upper drafts of air, allowing him the advantage of tossing down breaths of blue fire.
Topaz’s energy crackled against the darkness, further dissipating it and singeing the leathery, dark wings of the Wild Dragon beneath him.
My breath caught when Killian raised his spear as two more Wild Dragons broke off from the group and rushed upward to join the attack.
A span of ethereal silver wings fanned out behind him as he tossed the spear, sending it straight between one of the Wild Dragon’s eyes.
Killian’s lethal beauty, combined with his ruthless attack, had me screaming in protest.
“Killian, no!”
I didn’t want to kill these creatures. They were misguided, and in the past I had been able to root out the corruption that made them like this.
His white-washed eyes locked onto mine and his jaw flexed with determination.
We are here for the egg, Vivi. We can’t save them all.
I swallowed the lump forming in my throat. This wasn’t what we’d talked about.
We’ll talk about this later. Right now I’m going to make sure we get the egg… and I’m going to make sure we both make it out of this alive.
His response suggested that I’d sent that last thought to him.
I hesitated.
Come to think of it, we hadn’t actually discussed what to do when we faced Wild Dragons. I’d worked under the assumption that Killian knew how I felt.
