A Dragon's Tale by Bonnie Burrows

Author:Bonnie Burrows [Burrows, Bonnie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-12-18T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

The car slowly filled with panic as they sped away from the scene. Nina was dimly aware of Rachel crying beside her in the backseat of Eli’s Porsche; she slung an arm around her sister’s shoulders mechanically, unable to pull herself out of the vortex of thoughts and emotions in her mind. Her dragon essence was buzzing around beneath her skin fretfully, and she clamped her eyes shut for a moment to reel it in before she accidentally slipped her skin and started to shift into her dragon form. She seemed to be experiencing everything from the bottom of a well—all sights and sounds were distant and compressed, far away and untouchable, unlike her terror. Her terror was very real and tangible.

Joey tried to kill me. My teacher tried to kill me. He tried to kill us, she corrected herself as she looked at Rachel’s tear-stained face. And he almost succeeded.

“Who’s working with him?” she heard herself say aloud. The sound of her voice went a long way toward bringing her back to reality. “He kept saying he’d made a deal. Who made a deal with him?”

“I think I have some ideas,” Pryce said grimly.

Eli’s head whipped toward him suddenly. “Pryce, it isn’t an Outcast, is it?” He didn’t wait for Pryce to answer; his voice rose an octave when he spoke again. “It is, isn’t it?”

“I don’t think so,” Pryce said mildly. “I actually think it’s one of your people.”

The car was silent now. Rachel had stopped crying, and she turned her red-rimmed eyes to Nina, fear written in her gaze.

“No,” Nina said angrily. “No, none of our dragons would do this.”

“One of your dragons just tried to kill us, Nina,” Pryce said, just as upset. “Being bonded doesn’t make you a saint. Just like being an Outcast doesn’t make you a sinner.”

Her cheeks flushed when she heard his accusatory tone, but she held her ground. “I’m not willing to point the finger until we get more information.”

“But you’re fine with Eli pointing the finger for you?”

Nina glared at Pryce from the backseat, and he held her gaze with an angry stare of his own. When she saw he wasn’t going to back down she turned away and cast her glance out the window, taking in the scenery without really absorbing it. She could still feel his gaze on her, but after a moment, it didn’t feel angry anymore; it felt morose, dispirited, even. Nina wanted to be angry that Pryce would expect anything from her—sympathy toward Outcasts, fairness in the face of danger, any kind of answer for her behavior—but she couldn’t gather the energy. Instead, she just felt terribly confused. She didn’t look forward again until she heard him turn around in the passenger seat.

“We need a new plan,” Rachel said weakly. “And now we have to be extra careful. Whoever Joey was working for is going to be incredibly pissed at us, to say the least. We killed one of their plants.”

“Without even taking any damage,” Pryce mumbled.

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