Dragon (Dragon Eye Book 1) by Finley Aaron

Author:Finley Aaron [Aaron, Finley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Knox Press
Published: 2014-11-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

“Night has fallen, Ilsa. We should get going.” Ram nudges my shoulder, waking me gently.

Sure, now I’m sleeping hard, a deep dreamless sleep that weighs heavily upon me as I try to shove it away and rise past it.

“Want a bite to eat before we get going?” He holds out a roasted bird of some sort. Pheasant, maybe? It’s hard to tell once it’s roasted.

I sit up straighter, take the bird, chew a few bites, and swallow. “Ram?”

“Yes?”

“Can I choose who I am? Can I choose to be human?”

“If you never change into a dragon, then yes, I suppose you’d be human by default.” He tears meat with his teeth, thoughtfully chewing. “But your DNA would still be the same, you know. You’d still be part dragon, even if it was latent dragon.”

“What about my children? Would they be dragons?”

“Depends on their father, I suppose. If you married a man—a man who was only a man—your kids would be something in-between. I’ve never known anyone who was half dragon, but I’ve heard of them. Legend says Alexander the Great’s father was a dragon.”

“Really? But didn’t you say he was one of the conquerors who targeted dragons?”

“Maybe he was trying to prove himself to his father.” Ram suggests.

But I’ve already thought of another possibility. “Maybe he wanted to destroy the part of himself he didn’t like, and conquering dragons was the only way he knew how to do it.”

Ram frowns. “That might explain Eudora’s genocidal fixation.”

Though I can tell Ram is against the idea, still, I can’t shake it. I don’t want to be a dragon. That’s not the same as wanting to kill all the other dragons. It’s my identity, my choice. “What if I choose that? To stay only human, always. To live like a human?”

Ram sighs. “It’s going to take longer to get you home.”

“What if I don’t want to go home?”

Ram breathes out heavily. I can’t see his face in the twilight, so for a moment, I think maybe he’s upset. But he rises as far as his knees, and kind of scoot-walks the last few feet between us until he’s at my side, close enough his shoulder touches mine. He sits a little sideways so he can see my face clearly, and his blue eyes glow softly in the darkness. “I thought you wanted nothing more in all the world than to go home?”

I look up at him and swallow a bite of pheasant. I don’t know what to say.

“All summer you’ve been talking about going home. Wondering when your dad was going to come for you, asking where your home is. You just wanted to go home.”

I’m watching him, trying to remember the long summer back in Prague. It feels like it was a world away, falling, as it did, on the other side of the great divide—my life before I knew I was a dragon, and my life after I knew.

But the words from my dream spin through my thoughts. Was Ion’s visit

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