Mated to Dragons by Laura Wylde

Author:Laura Wylde [Wylde, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-12T16:00:00+00:00

7

Kauris

I don’t think anyone slept much that night. I didn’t. My thoughts were racing ahead, trying to imagine where our journey would take us. Every night sound woke me. Every other hour, I stared out the window, waiting for daylight to show. As soon as it did, I was up. When I went out to the kitchen, I saw, so were the others. We had been restless. We put on our clothes without speaking, picked up our bags and went out to the boat. It was rocking gently against its moorings, waiting for us.

Reuben says the boat has a life of its own. There are times I believe it. It’s fussy. The engines won’t turn over smooth and purring without Reuben’s encouraging hands. It never takes on too much water. Whether it’s the boat’s build or Reuben’s sure navigation, its bow triumphantly raises out of the water in the fiercest gale. Today, it seemed as eager to see us as we were to board. It fired up and roared out to sea with a single turn of the switch. Rueben throttled down when we reached an area known for dolphin sightings. The engines grumbled and slowed. “Okay, Miss Biologist, it’s your call.”

The Dragon Queen murmured softly as though to say, don’t worry. I won’t leave you. The surface of the water rippled undisturbed. Macy bent over the guardrails. “I don’t see anything. Maybe we should bribe them.”

“If we throw out fish, we could get sharks,” I reminded her.

She gave that mysterious smile that never tells you exactly how she feels. “Not fish. We play.”

Of all the things to bring with her, she had carried along several brightly colored rubber balls. She stripped down to her bikini, climbed over the side of the boat, and dived into the water. “Throw me a ball,” she yelled.

I threw one over the side. She caught it and tossed it back. Caught up in the spirit of play, Kazan threw another one. It flew into the water just ahead of my next throw. Her laughter echoed as she chased the balls, trying to throw them back as quickly as we tossed them.

We were having so much fun, we didn’t even see the first dolphin appear until it bumped a ball from Macy’s hands. She gasped at first, then seeing what it was, made a dash for the toy. The dolphin got to it first and bounced it into the boat. I tossed it back. It must have been a hundred years since the last time I played. I don’t know why I gave it up.

The dolphins packed around the boat. There were around half-a-dozen. They tossed the balls between themselves, nosed them into the air to land on the deck and mischievously stole from Macy. We spent the better part of the day in the dolphins’ inventive game of combined dodge ball and keep-away. We were exhausted with laughing.

I understood a little now, why the world of animals was so attractive to Macy. Animals played

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