Nightmares and Daydreams by India Amare

Author:India Amare [Amare, India]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-21T16:00:00+00:00

There wasn’t enough wood to chop. At least not enough to slow my anger. So I started chopping down trees that needed to come down.

“Ever heard of climate change?” Bo thought he was being funny.

I hopped over the log and started hacking.

“You know, because you’re clearing the forest? Trees? Nature? Carbon dioxide? Erosion?”

The ax got stuck and I put a foot on the log, using my weight to pull it free.

“Tough crowd.” He grumbled, sitting on an old stump covered in vines. “What the hell is going on? Kris is in a mood too. And I am not going anywhere near Atsila.”

“We got some bad news.” I filled him in on all the news from the North and that Gigi had a new mission in life.

He rubbed a hand over his face. “This makes parking tickets seem stupid.”

My back and arms burned—finally—so I buried the ax in the wood and sat across from my brother. “What the hell does that mean?”

“Don’t worry about it. You think Gigi’s right?”

Of course she was right. Everything was out of our hands. Sometimes it felt like we were just puppets playing out some fantasy made up by a being more powerful than us. “She’s right.”

Bo and I were only a little over a year apart in age. We grew up together. As different as we were, we had been good friends our whole lives, through thick and thin. So when he spoke I knew whether he was being serious or an asshole, or playing with me or trying to start a fight. Bo was being very serious right now.

“I’m sorry. Sometimes I’m a shit brother because I’m glad it’s you and not me. But most of the time?” He shook his head and looked me right in the eye. “Most of the time I hate that there’s nothing I can do to help you two. I feel so useless.”

“Well, you’re not useless anymore. Shit’s about to go sideways and I have a part to play in all of it. If Gigi’s right, her transformation is what will allow her to exist in Ryddyck’s reality.”

“Fuck. And we already know they have dragons.”

“Exactly. Which means you need to be in charge. You’ve already headed up training, so everyone is used to following your orders.”

He shot to his feet just like I expected. “No Dray. You’re Head of House. Not me.”

“And you’ve walked beside me every step of the way. You know how the House operates. You work with the other Houses. You’ve trained your whole life to take my place if need be. Well, it need be.”

“How will that even work with your bond to Rhysa? She wields Dreadnought.”

I didn’t have all the fucking answers. I wish I did. “I don’t know. Maybe if you’re not officially Head of House it won’t matter. I’m hoping it doesn’t. If you’re in charge and I’m technically Head of House, then Dreadnought remains with us. While I’m in my dragon form Rhysa will wield it still.”

“I hate this.”

“I’m not a fan.

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