The Sleeping Omega Prince by Maggie Hemlock

Author:Maggie Hemlock [Hemlock, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Brendan

Rhett and I flew to his onsite class the day before his TA was due to bring over his students. He needed time to set things up and ensure animals or unfavorable weather hadn’t caused chaos and destruction. I was happy to see where Alpha worked, but Moonstruck Island wasn’t what I expected. There wasn’t an ancient village standing proud waiting for students to take a tour of the past. Bits of buildings remained, but not enough to identify what they once were by sight alone.

Most of the land on the island was sectioned off by ropes creating a boxy grid. A long brick barracks sat in the center of the island surrounded by tents and storage buildings. The storage sheds were full of artifacts from shifters who lived on the island long ago. What bothered me the most was a storage shed full of plastic totes of dragon scales.

“I need to look at these. If any of them belong to my family I’m taking them back,” I pulled a tote off the top of the box.

“Clarence Moonscale was supposed to come by years ago and sort through them. That’s why they’re still here and not at a museum,” Rhett said.

“Do you know how crappy that sounds?” I opened the box.

“The Moonscales have a whole museum of dragon scales now. It has all these guards and stuff, but it’s like a big dragon shrine.”

“Well, he missed his chance. At least you didn’t auction them off to the highest bidder.”

“They’re technically property of Moonscale Academy.”

“They belong to the Moonscales then, right?” I sat down and looked up at him.

“Yeah,” he nodded.

“Well, as far as I know, I’m the oldest living Moonscale. So, I get first dibs.”

“Only they don’t know you’re awake.”

“Well, if they show up send them my way. I’ll put the hatchlings in their places,” I laughed.

I wasn’t sure if I wanted to meet my descendants. What dragon leaves boxes of scales piled up in non-dragon hands? Sure, Rhett was educated and respectable for the most part, but Clarence didn’t know Rhett was destined for a dragon mate. Maybe he sensed something, but a gut feeling wasn’t enough. I knew why I trusted Rhett, but why did he?

“You just have trouble trusting leaders after our carrier didn’t listen,” my dragon said.

Maybe, but that doesn’t change the fact he let these scales pile up like a bunch of leaves from a dead tree.

“When you meet him, you can ask him why.”

Rhett double checked the rest of the island while I sorted through the scales. Some belonged to dragons I knew during my younger days. I put them into separate stacks as I sorted. Others belonged to dragons I never met but carried the humming energy of my family line. Some, I didn’t know where the heck they came from. I needed an updated family tree to help me sort through them. I sorted ones I couldn’t identify into stacks of scales that belonged to the same dragons. Most of the scales broke or shed off.

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