It was a difficult feeling to explain.
The trees became smaller and I could feel the sweat dripping off my temple as my stomach turned. Cara on the other hand was the total opposite as she pushed us up into the sky, and dove down toward the ground.
I closed my eyes as trees and open land came really close and felt how she pulled up once again. She let out a sound of pure excitement and forced me to open my eyes. Blake was still a couple of lengths ahead of us, twirling so fast that it made him look like a huge arrow spinning from a hunter’s bow.
Cara did the same and I was sure this time I was going to throw up.
C’mon Elena, it’s fun! she yelled inside my head and made excited sounds.
We followed Blake once again to the mountain and I could feel Cara’s eyes on his naked human body.
He turned around to look at us and thank heavens he held his robe in his arms. “So who do I have the pleasure of dealing with today?” His voice was full of sarcasm.
“Hahaha,” both Cara and I said.
Go for it honey, I’m not in the mood to deal with him.
“It’s me, idiot.”
“Elena.” He grinned and pulled on his robe. “Was that you flying as well or was it Cara?” He raised his eyes once as he said her name.
“Always Cara, I told you I’m not fond of heights.”
He gave me a look as if I was insane.
“What?”
“Nothing,” he chuckled and threw me a robe too. I grabbed it with my one talon and went to the nearest tree before I changed back into my human form. How I would ever get used to parading my naked body in front of others, I didn’t know. I did know it wasn’t going to happen anytime soon though.
I found him sitting on a huge boulder.
“So do you have any questions about being a dragon?”
I thought about it for a while. “No,” I replied as I couldn’t think of anything and then a thought jumped into my head. “Yes, how could I not have known about her?”
He smiled. “I don’t know. What I do know is that she must have woken up when you realized that help wouldn’t come. I’ve never seen a dragon form stay asleep that long before. But I’ve read about it.”
“You have, where?”
“In a history book about the thirteenth century. It was when all dragons were still being slaughtered and hunted down. Some, which I assume were Metallic, hid as humans. A couple of them did it for so long that they no longer knew how to turn into a dragon.”
“Why didn’t he tell me about her?”
“Your father?” Blake asked.
I nodded.
“Beats me, Elena.”
I thought about Dad again and realized what my mother was too. If I was a dragon then she must have been one too. Why on earth had she run away then? If her reason wasn’t that she’d found out Dad’s secret and was scared of what I would turn into, then what could’ve been so terrible to keep her from staying with us?
“What’s on your mind?”
“My mom.”
“What about her?”
“Why did she leave me then? She’s a dragon too.”
“I can’t answer that for you, Elena.”
“Yeah, I know.” I sighed. “I just hate all these questions that will never be answered.”
It was quiet for a while.
“You really heard Paul’s voice in your head?”
“It was a trick, he planted it, Blake.”
He frowned.
“Why do you want to know?”
“Just curious. What did it sound like?”
“At first I thought I was going to lose my mind. The extra voice was distracting me and I couldn’t concentrate. Everyone knew something was wrong, but Lucian was the first to ask me about it.” My heart pulled slightly as I said his name and I took a deep breath to try and bury it again.
“Did you speak to one another in a regular basis?”
I shook my head. “I tried, but he never answered. I don’t think he wanted to, to be honest. It was just a trick, remember?”
“You reached out to him?” He frowned again.
“I just told you that I tried. I guessed his level of thinking was higher than mine and that he couldn’t hear me, or maybe he didn’t like the fact that I could hear him.” I looked at him. “Why do you want to know this?”
“Told you, I’m curious. It’s something that you wouldn’t find with a rider and their dragon at such a young age.”
“And yet I also