Where Dragons Meet Moonlight by Jasmine Orrell

Author:Jasmine Orrell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Self Publish

JAQUELINE

It was mid morning by the time I had woken up. I blinked the sleep out of my eyes as I turned to face Derik beside me.

He was still asleep. His hands gripped the blanket with white knuckles as he shifted around. Even though he wore nothing, and the room was chilled from the morning air coming through the open window, he had beads of sweat that covered his forehead.

I knew he was struggling with everything that happened in the last month. Everyone was. The darkness of the events were a lot for anyone to handle.

I sat up slowly and tried to sit on the edge of the bed without waking him up.

I could feel him sit up behind me and I smiled. “That didn’t work.”

He wrapped his arms around me and kissed my shoulder. “I owe you an apology.” He told me.

I looked at him and tugged his beard. “I never told you that I like the beard. You didn’t have it before I left for the summits. It’s a nice touch.”

“You’re ignoring me.” He said, straightening himself up.

“Of course I am. You spent the entire night apologising.” I told him. “You kept me up until nearly dawn telling me that you felt terrible for saying my father was like the Master. Which, in all honesty, I don’t understand. Every time I ask about him, you change the subject or just refuse to answer me.”

He flopped back on the bed and pulled the pillow over his face.

“And you say I act like a child.” I said lying back next to him propping myself up on my elbow.

He pulled the pillow away and stared at the ceiling. “I remember one day when I was maybe fourteen years old, and we had spent over ten hours performing the same exercise over and over, and he screamed at me every time I got it wrong. To the point that by that tenth hour, I was so tired and so stressed out by his yelling that I began to panic. The whole hyperventilating and crying and feeling like my chest was collapsing.”

I moved his arm and rested my head on his chest. He wrapped his arm around me and squeezed.

“Anyways.” He continued. “It made him angry that I had started to do that. He said I had to control it. That my emotions would only be used against me and I would die from it. So he hit me with his staff and knocked me to the ground to prove the point. He used the end of it to pin me, which only made my panicking worse. He held me there until I could control it.”

I rolled over him and looked down at his face. “Did you manage to control it?” I asked hesitantly.

He shook his head. “I ended up not being able to breathe so badly that I blacked out.”

I turned and lied on my back again. “I’m sorry Derik.”

“Do you understand why I apologised now?” I nodded. “It was really unfair to compare Ferant to him.

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