Landers was right, too. They weren’t done with my body. And I wasn’t done with theirs either.
25
Ihad never really taken the time to stare at the stars before. Frankly, after going into heat like that and being perfectly satiated, everything looked perfect to me.
“They have you completely captivated,” Philit said.
I turned my head, which was currently resting on the balcony railing, to look at him.
He elaborated his point for me. “The stars, I mean.”
“Or maybe I’m too exhausted to lift my head,” I admitted.
Landers snorted as he joined us with drinks. I grabbed the one he held out to me and downed the cool water in seconds, getting chuckles from them.
“Thirsty,” Landers teased.
“And whose fault is that?” I asked, only getting more laughs from them. “Where is Zilon?” He had gone with Landers but hadn’t returned yet.
Landers shrugged as if it wasn’t a big deal. “Spying.”
“What? On who?”
“The Fae of course,” Philit said. “We’re just trying to get more answers.”
I bit my lip, not liking the idea of him spying alone. Sure, nothing had happened to us yet, but Zilon was still surrounded by the enemy so to speak, even if we had a shaky truce with them.
“He’ll be fine,” Philit said, knowing where my thoughts were going.
“You don’t know that.”
“Why? He should be safe enough,” Landers said. “You said they won’t harm us. Sure, we don’t get the red-carpet treatment, but they haven’t tried to kill us yet.”
I worried my lower lip.
“Rayna?” Philit asked.
“We chose this path, and I still think it’s right, but it’s still dangerous,” I admitted. “I have no doubt that Neyil wants to use us, since he believes deeply in whatever prophecy he knows about. But I can’t help but wonder how far can we go? At what point are we in too deep.”
“If you want to leave right now, we will,” Philit said. “We’ll take on our dragon forms, fly away, and never return.”
I shook my head, knowing that wasn’t the right move. It felt wrong. “There’s still so much to learn, I think. And if we run, how will we survive? I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t have the resources to live on my own right now. Where we will sleep? How will we get food?”
“We’ll be fighting soon,” Landers said in a low voice. “And you promised Neyil we’d help him. We’re going to be knee deep in shit. If we want to change something, now’s the time to do it.”
I stared out of the balcony’s view and at the massive stars in the sky. It was such a clear night that I almost felt like I could reach the stars if I extended my hands out.
“There is a lot of merit in what we’ve learned so far, and thinking about the stories the Fae have told us compared to the dragons,” Philit said slowly. “It’s clear who has better information. But at what cost to us?”
“You think there’s more truth in the Fae stories about the first dragon and rider?” Landers asked. “More than what the dragons have told us?”
“They’re all stories,” I said, feeling a bit sleepy now. I had practically gone into heat, and it had taken a long time for the need for their cocks to finally go away after a crazy amount of orgasms and more cum than I knew what to do with. It had taken a while to clean it all off me afterward. “Different truths.”
“What exactly do the Fae think we’re facing?” Landers asked. “I think you mentioned something about a monster in the mountains?”
“I don’t know. Neyil has been holding that information close to his chest. He keeps going on about how I’m the prophecy, the one to end the war and unite us all, so we can fight against whatever is in the mountains. The stories we learned aren’t the romantic fairy tales we were taught.”
Landers snorted. “Nothing is ever a romantic fairy tale. We didn’t see signs in the mountain though about anything dangerous.”