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My foot crunched onto something and I looked down to find that the ground had iced over in my “Uncle’s” presence.
Everything about this screamed evil, but what if he was telling the truth?
What did that mean for me?
For my mother?
She was a daughter of Avalon and I knew gifts ran in our blood for the women in our family. That’s what she had told me.
But she hadn’t mentioned if my family was human…
Instead, she’d said that they had been scattered across the realms for our protection. And until Avalon healed, we wouldn’t be safe.
I’d left Avalon after Nera’s defeat. Perhaps that had been a mistake.
How could it heal without a Queen to tend it?
I wasn’t that Queen. I knew that much, but I hadn’t put much thought into who should take Avalon’s throne. I just knew that it wasn’t me.
“Your mother used to sing me to sleep,” he told me as he gave me a wistful grin. “Her voice was her gift. Our mother, your grandmother, always chided her for using it for something as silly as her little brother.”
I flinched, because that sounded like it could be true.
My mother was a type of siren and that wasn’t common knowledge.
What in the realms am I going to do if he’s telling the truth?
Dragons roared from above, drawing my attention skyward as I felt a sharp stab of pain from Killian.
He’d been burned by fire, but it wasn’t a lethal injury.
“You need to let us leave,” I said. My voice wavered out of fear. I couldn’t allow anything to happen to Killian, Topaz, or Solstice just because I’d fallen into my Uncle’s trap.
“I will,” he said, nodding. “But you’re going to take this with you and give it to your mother. She’ll know what it means.”
He reached into the shadow of his smoky robe and produced a dark crystal.
“Take it,” he said, “and I’ll do everything in my power to keep the corruption out of your way long enough for you to leave.”
Frowning, I debated my options.
I could kill him and try to fight my way out, but Solstice couldn’t break through the layer of clouds above my head.
And I was weighed down by a heavy dragon egg. The wyvern inside seemed to have lost her will to break free and she wasn’t moving anymore.
I needed to get her out of here.
My other option was to trust him.
Closing my eyes, I decided to listen to my instincts.
And they told me to extend my hand.
“Okay,” I said as I opened my palm. “I’ll do it.”
CHAPTER 10
The moment I accepted the crystal the wyvern inside the egg I coddled jerked and screeched. It formed a bracelet and bit into my wrist, drawing blood as it sank its teeth into me.
