Dragon Kin: Sapphire & Lotus by Audrey Faye & Shae Geary

Author:Audrey Faye & Shae Geary [Faye, Audrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fireweed Publishing Ltd
Published: 2016-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Sapphire groaned as she walked out the door of the small rondo she shared with Kellan and headed toward the nursery. Everyone kept telling her that flying would hurt less with practice, but it had been almost two weeks now, hours every day, and getting out of her bed each morning was still the hardest part of her day.

Which was saying something because it had plenty of competition. Lotus had mastered her wing tilts and tail curls well enough to keep them out of accidental nose dives, but the crashes due to lack of thought on the part of a certain peach-pink dragon’s immature brain were still happening frequently enough that Sapphire’s whole body had turned into one big bruise.

Hopefully, whatever Irin wanted her for would be quick and easy and very soft.

He looked up as she ducked inside the dim nursery. “Good morning.”

She’d take his word for it. “I got a message that you wanted to see me.” It wasn’t an unusual request—Lotus still spent a lot of time with Irin and Kis, and there was a never-ending list of chores associated with raising baby dragons, including the oversized ones.

Irin grunted. “I’ll be doing your flying lesson this morning.”

She blinked—that was pretty much the last thing she’d expected. Kis had been wing-wounded many seasons past and didn’t fly any farther than the nearest sunning rock.

“You think I’ve forgotten all I know just because we don’t take to the skies anymore, missy?” Irin’s voice was testier than usual. “I’ll have you know that in our day, there wasn’t any dragon who could outfly Kis, and not a rider who could stick like I could, either.”

Things were starting to make a bit more sense. “You can teach me not to fall off?”

“I can try.” He raised a wry eyebrow. “Afran tells me that teaching Lotus to be more thoughtful about which way she’s pointing her feet hasn’t been all that successful.”

Sapphire sighed. “She barrel-rolled me again yesterday.” Barrel smash was more like it. “I managed to hang on long enough to hit the ground feet first, but I’m not sure that’s a big improvement.” Her hips ached like demons this morning.

“Not if you’re any higher up than the rooftops, anyhow.” Irin clapped a hand on her shoulder. “Come. I sent Lotus out to practice earlier. Let’s go see what she’s learned.”

She didn’t need a dragon with more tricks. Sapphire limped along after Irin as he stomped out the nursery door and headed out the back way to the north edge of the village. That worried her—the land was a lot rockier up there. “We’ve been practicing in the south fields.”

“Too flat for what we need.”

She suddenly felt positively nostalgic about the clouds of dust. “I’m not sure I’m ready for anything else.”

Irin turned to her, his eyes flashing fiercely. “Life doesn’t always wait for you to be ready, missy. It’s time to practice somewhere that doesn’t offer you and that girl of yours a soft landing. Get both of you paying better attention to the job you need to do.

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