as I can. All the adults glare at us openly, but the children have finished crying now. I have to squeeze myself into a slippery seat, then I rip into the meat. “Delicious, so much better than a chargrilled goat,” I mutter.
Nos sits opposite me, snacking on something that looks like leaves. He places a tray of the same before me and then Griffin who slips in beside him.
“Eat it, it’s good for you,” Nos instructs us, his eyes on the fallen. Griffin throws it in the bin, while I simply throw mine at the fallen who snarls and narrows his eyes on me.
I go back to eating, but notice a small human near my table looking at my food with big eyes. I lean my head down and growl, my dragon mostly in charge now. He squeals and runs away. “Dragons don’t share food,” I mutter.
“Fucking hell, only I could get stuck with a tree lover and dumb shit over there,” Griffin grouses.
“You are dumb.” I sniff, lifting my head.
“Brilliant, dragon, truly brilliant come back, did your momma teach you that?”
“My mother tried to eat me.” I frown.
“What a way to kill a conversation.” Griffin laughs.
“I did not kill anything, yet, but I will gladly. Starting with you,” I snarl.
Nos leans forward. “No killing each other over food, remember why we are all here and together.”
“Dawn.” I nod.
“Fucking mate of mine.” Griffin rolls his eyes and I narrow mine on him. “Don’t worry, I only tried to kill her once,” he retorts, and that is how we end up getting kicked out of what Griffin called a fast food place as I try to murder him for hurting my mate.
The dragon almost made me crash my car on the way home, and when we get back to my house, he plops himself on the sofa and goes back to watching the shitty sheep’s show. Nos and I share a look and he sighs, then he stands in front of the TV, blocking the dragon’s view.
“We need a plan and to start finding Dawn, anything could be happening to her right now.”
His words hit us all and the dragon finally gets serious. “I will change and rip the souls from everyone in the city until we find her.”
“Your plan is rubbish, no wonder dragons are almost extinct,” I scoff, and spin in my chair, turning off the TV. “Now, here is what we are actually going to do. We go to Victor, get all the information on The Others we can, then we put an alert out to all other supes. Nos, contact your people again, see if they have anything else for us. We suspect the council, yes? Well, I have a way in, I am their good little servant, after all, so I’ll check that out.”
“What will I do?” the dragon asks, watching us.
I share a look with Nos as if to say, can I lock this prick up in my basement? I can already feel the darkness swirling unchecked in my brain from being away from Dawn. At least while she was here I could take it out on her and she helped keep it in check, but now it flows through me and I never know what it’s going to do next.
Nos sighs and sits down. “We need to get serious. We all know the council is behind this. I will do as you suggested as well as stay outside of the chambers of the council in case anything goes wrong with you. You find her and get her out, Griffin…”
“I hear a but coming,” I prompt, clenching my fingers into my palm to push back memories of the last time I lost someone to the council.
“But we need someone who can take the council down. Yes, we could kill them and then we would all be executed, including Dawn. If they are truly behind this, they aren’t doing it with sanction from the sleeping council. I suggest we involve them, let the councils fight between themselves and that is when we extract Dawn.”
“You know she’s going to want revenge. If you haven’t noticed, she’s a little bloodthirsty, our mate.” I grin, remembering her covered in blood and grinning at me. What a woman, and to think I tried to fight it, fight her.
“That comes after.” Nos nods.
“Then that is what I do,” the dragon adds, and we both look at him. “I know some witches I can trust, they will find the location of the