The Dragon's Ambivalent Sacrifice: a Dragon Shifter Romance (The Last Dragons Book 2) by Ines Johnson

Author:Ines Johnson [Johnson, Ines]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

For a woman who had never been anywhere, this was one hell of a first trip outside the known. Poppy always thought she'd liked small places. That she liked her world confined. Being out in the open of the Veil, she realized how wrong she was.

This place was unreal. It was as though she was walking through a television screen, in high definition. The colors of the trees were so vibrant and bright. Looking up at the sky, she would’ve sworn she was looking at the underside of a crystal ball because it was so clear blue. It looked as though someone had dropped a box of crayons that had melted over the canvass.

Her imagination was having trouble believing what her eyes were telling her. She made sure to walk on the graveled paths because the plants opened their eyes and looked up at her. A few lifted their leaves and waved.

"You know how they say the trees have ears," said Chryssie. "Well, once upon a time, that was true. Here it still is true."

Poppy watched willowy plants walk around on sturdy stems. Some looked more human than plant. A few even had wings like butterflies.

Chryssie and Cardi explained how plants were the first living things to evolve on land. When they did, they were sentient. The Goddess tinkered with their DNA until they could communicate with Her and with each other. There were some plants that uprooted themselves and walked on their stalks during the day, sinking back into the rich earth each night to get sustenance. Those plants, or fairies as they liked to call themselves, crossed out of the garden and into the world of other living beings.

Many of Her original creations still lived here in the garden. Plants weren’t the only beings the Goddess tinkered with. She’d experimented with what humans knew as the dinosaurs. That’s how dragon shifters came to be. She’d also tried to make men out of wolves, lions, and bears.

The architecture within the Veil was also breathtaking. Many structures were built out of the surrounding landscape. There were a few pyramids, many dome-like structures, but mostly massive rectangular structures that resembled the buildings of today’s world. Only not many went much higher than three stories. That allowed for clear views of the pristine, mostly untouched land that went on as far as Poppy could see.

"So, what part of the world are we actually in?" asked Poppy.

"You can't think of it like that," said Cardi. "We're on another plane of existence. You can access just about any part of the world from this point."

"So, I could go anywhere on the Earth from here?" asked Poppy.

Anywhere she wanted? Like Montenegro, or Malta, or even Miami?

"Yup,” said Cardi. “Humans can go out and in because they can exist in both realms. Fairies, too.”

“Wow,” sighed Poppy, feeling that the world was truly her oyster. “So, Beryl and I could take a vacation without flying?” Or maybe he would fly her on his back like Corun and Kimber had flown Cardi.

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