Chaos Covenant (Breath of Chaos Book 3) by Merry Ravenell

Author:Merry Ravenell [Ravenell, Merry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 9 Swords
Published: 2021-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Helena

Another day, another trek out to the fields of Lemuria. We’d been practicing with the suit for a bit, and I was to the point where I could wear the damn thing and get swaddled for a few minutes before having a complete nope. It was terrifying and I hated it, but I could deal with a short while, especially since I got promptly rewarded and was highly incentivized.

“Still don’t want to do this,” I whispered to myself. Spending another few days screaming in some unending nightmare of me falling through nothing while my mind got ripped into paradox-marbles was not how I liked to pass the time.

Auryn said, “You don’t have to. I’ll take—”

“No.” He was always trying to talk me out of it. I hid my annoyance. I’d made it clear I was doing this, so I was doing it.

“Then think of it like the suit.”

Akoni gave me a dim look. “I do not like that suit.”

“Even though it gets you laid?”

“I do not need that suit to get laid.”

Despite my nerves, I cracked a smile. Akoni hated our games in the suit. He played along because it seemed to help me cope with being really uncomfortable and terrified and vulnerable, but the faster we got rid of that suit, the happier he’d be.

Auryn held my hand tightly, his thumb rubbing my knuckles. He wanted to tell me I didn’t have to do this, and I could refuse, and he’d fly me right back to West.

I wanted to nope out, but I had to do it. There were almost eight billion people on Earth and a lot of dragons who needed me to do this. I’d read the ruby drake’s journals, and her guilt and anguish had been so intense—and her stories of how the guilt had caused dragons to simply lay down and die—still lingered with me. And that cataclysm had been unavoidable. I couldn’t bear the thought of what it was going to do to Lemuria to know this time it was their fault.

I’d already lost Keon for it. I could see Kira withering away like a beautiful golden rose under the anguish.

Mahon said, “Get to it, chaos child.”

“Love you to, Mahon,” I said.

He smirked.

Dekka, serene, said, “Just try to shift forms. For a few seconds. Those seconds may feel like eternity, but don’t try to breathe, don’t fight it. Let go of the magic as soon as you have it.”

“It’s not the whole let go that’s the problem,” I said.

“Then wait until you can’t breathe,” Dekka said. “You’ll revert back to your human form. Just like if you were underwater your brain will force you to breathe.”

I took a breath and shook out my shoulders. Like what Petrarchyan said: I was Helena. I could be human and dragon. I just needed to not panic. Dragons did this all the time.

I focused on summoning the gossamer out of the nothing, pulling it inwards, like taking a deep breath. It was a little easier this time.

The ribbons tightened.

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