Dragon Mediated (The Covert Dragons Book 10) by Viola Grace

Author:Viola Grace [Grace, Viola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“So, a peacekeeper. Don’t you want to join the dragons here in the capital?”

Kabyl shook her head. “No. I don’t. I grew up in a small town, a tiny village, actually. Serving a community has a lot more appeal than just sitting around here and joining society. I am not designed for society. I am designed for the wilderness.”

“You are my granddaughter; your biological father is a member of the senate guard. You were born to live here.”

“No, I was born in a wooden building, on a quilt, with my community around me helping my mother and father to welcome me.” She smiled. “I have a small pack of dogs, with puppies expected in the spring. I have friends, family, and hobbies. I am not suited to the city. It is far too noisy.”

“You will have to come in for court cases if you choose the path of peacekeeper.” Her grandmother smiled in triumph.

“Maybe, or maybe I can send my partner. He is far more suited to answering annoying questions.”

Her grandmother stared. “Partner? You have a partner? Does your mother know?”

Kabyl covered her eyes as she laughed. “Yes, she knows. He was brought to me by the diamond dragon. She enlisted someone to assist in the more practical applications of my human manifestation of my dragon’s skills.”

Her grandmother paused. “You can manifest while human?”

Kabyl mimicked lobbing a ball toward one of the buildings, and a snowball thudded lightly into the wall. “Like that.”

Creata snickered. “She also made that snowman over there for my daughter.”

“You manifest snow?” The judge seemed to be having trouble with the idea.

Kabyl chuckled. “Would you just like to see me?”

The judge’s eyes got shiny. “If it isn’t inconvenient.”

She got up and walked a decent distance away from the table and made sure that Amesthet was nowhere to be seen. She let her dragon out, and when she was finished, she looked over at her grandmother and lowered her head.

“Oh, Kabyl. You are gorgeous.”

Kabyl inclined her head in acknowledgment. The judge reached out to touch her, and she drew her hand back. “You are cold!”

Kabyl’s dragon laughed. It was a strange honking sound, very like a swan.

She flexed her wings outward and let her grandmother look, the sun was bright, and rainbows were cast around the yard. Kabyl folded her wings in and resumed her human shape.

“Sorry, but I am wilting Creata’s flowers.”

The blooming shrubs near her had the edge of frost that she was associating with her own presence.

The judge stood there with tears in her eyes. “You are stunning.”

Creata was still at the table, and Amesthet was clapping with her pudgy little hands, her eyes wide and shining. That was the audience she was glad she had impressed.

“Well, I wouldn’t have been if that creature hadn’t nearly sliced me in half.” Kabyl smiled. Her back flared with the memory of the pain. It was going to be annoying when she got older.

“Don’t be ridiculous. I am sure you would have transformed eventually. You just needed a female dragon to coax you out.

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