Frostbite (The Dragonian, #3) - Adrienne Woods Page 0,35
not going to hurt you. It’s your friend and the sooner you make peace with it, the better it will be for you.”
“I know, it’s just weird seeing it.”
“Again.”
I looked at him. “Do we have to?”
“Yes, again.” He sounded adamant.
“Demon slaver,” I mumbled and he just laughed. I closed my eyes again and this time he touched my hand. He was warm and just like his music, his touch tingled through my body.
“Concentrate on the flame.”
We did that for the next hour. Every time I had it, he forced me to look at it dancing in the palm of my hand. I could feel the heat, and he was wrong. It burned which again didn’t make any sense. The minute he touched my hand and killed the fire, I imagined a big blister on the inside of my hand but when he took his hand away, I found nothing. Not even a hint of a burn.
At four, I felt drained.
“I think that is enough for today, tomorrow we can practice lightning.”
I sighed.
“It’s not that hard, Elena.”
“No, I just remember Becky doing the shakes on the ground when she got her first dose of it.”
“I promise you won’t do the hippy hippy shake.”
I laughed and shook my head.
“How do you feel?”
“Like I haven’t slept for days.”
“Climb on my back.”
“No!”
“You want to fly back home yourself?”
“No,” I said softly and closed my eyes just in time as he ripped off his robe. He laughed again as he saw me standing there with closed eyes and I could feel him touching my arm and putting it around his neck. He lifted me onto his back in one movement and then he ran. I opened my eyes and saw how we dove off the cliff.
He changed in mid-air and I grabbed one of his horns just in time. It was a ride Lucian experienced once before he died and here I was getting one without even lifting a finger.
Thinking about Lucian again, knowing that he wouldn’t be waiting for me, asking me how it was made my heart ache. Still no tears would come. I rested my body in between two huge horns on Blake’s back and took in the air and the soft breeze. Even the sound of his wings flapping changed how I felt about everything.
There was no more Lucian, but there was now, there was this moment and there was this amazing dragon that would turn evil by the 23rd of August.
That couldn’t happen. It wouldn’t.
A familiar feeling jolted though my gut. I’d only had it once before but I would never forget it. It was the time when I knew I would succeed in finding the King of Lion sword. It was that same feeling, but this time it had nothing to do with that stupid sword or the words the Viden had spoken. There wouldn’t be a substitute but there would be another mission. One Lucille wouldn’t be happy about, and one that would lead me to find out what Lucian knew. I was the only one that could find the answer to save Blake.
OR THE NEXT couple of days Blake pushed hard, even more than Lucian had.
Controlling my abilities wasn’t easy. It would leave me drained and then Blake had to fly me back home. It became the one thing I looked forward to every afternoon. It felt so natural being on his back that I didn’t know what I was going to do if he ever told me that we were done, that training was over and I was a real Rubicon.
The mission was always in the back of my mind. I didn’t know where to start and going into the forest wasn’t the answer, although I knew it was where answers lay. I didn’t have Lucian’s skills and I wouldn’t know if I would ever be able to do whatever he had done to make it out of there alive, but I was a dragon, and not just any dragon, I was a female Rubicon, one I doubted the villagers would mess with.
The remaining question was, why was I so afraid of going into the Acker woods?
I tried to do as much research as possible. I typed ‘Acker Woods’ into the computer inside the library. When I hit the search key, the computer peeped and then it shut down.
My hands jolted into the air and the fear of breaking the computer overpowered my emotions. I looked around and saw a couple of students reading in groups.