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Chapter 27: Ishir
CooperIshir did really well with his first try controlling air.
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The Assassin Chapter 28: Zephyr
I know Ishir is worried about me, but I also know that Tana would never hurt me. She, Kaylani, and I were the last female dragons for a very long time. Kaylani and I are older than Tana, but there was never any animosity between us. And, I know that Tana killed innocents a lot longer than I have while she was in the Arena. She may not have killed that many more than I did, since Oliver was pushing me to kill more and more frequently, but she still has quite a list of supernaturals that she killed. As we walk into the forest, Tana takes my hand. “Do you mind telling me about the voices in your head?” she asks me. I think about the ghosts of the shifters in my mind and it’s Tana’s hand in mine that helps to keep me grounded. “They talk to me,” I say to her. She nods as she finds a place for us to sit. “They say horrible things to you?” she asks me. I nod. “Yes.” “Things that you believe?” “I believe them because they are true,” I say. “Are they, Zephyr?” she asks. “I killed t
The Assassin Chapter 29: Ishir
After dinner, Everett pulls out the documents that I gave him, and we all sit around the table. I can feel a shift in Zephyr’s feelings toward him. It makes me edgy, jealous. What if she wants him? I won’t allow it. She is mine. ‘Yes, I am, love. I am yours and I will explain the change in my feelings toward him later, when we are alone. For now, know that it has nothing to do with you and doesn’t change my feelings for you at all,’ she says in my mind. I’m still not happy about it, since I have no idea why she suddenly has warm feelings towards the human, so I pull her into my lap, needing to have her close. I relax when she snuggles up against me. “First, let me say that that, whether they have learned from their earlier mistakes or Oliver is just a better scientist than his father, the hybrids that they were creating in that laboratory are much more sophisticated than the ones I heard about before.” He passes around some documents that include images of young hybrids in the top
The Assassin Chapter 30: Ishir
The next morning, we’re up early. When I get outside, Morgan is already there with Kaylani. If she had a human form, she’d be bouncing on her feet. Instead, her scales are rippling and the excited energy coming off of her is palpable. “So, this is a good training exercise for both of you,” Kaylani begins. “Both of you need to learn to have control of your element. Watch as Zephyr and I show you,” she says, and Zephyr pulls a small tornado onto her hand. “The key is to trust each other, Zephyr and I are sisters and have grown up together, so we know that the other can control their element. But you also have the responsibility when you mix elements to maintain control of your element. If ones goes out of control, they both do,” Kaylani says, as she adds water to the tornado, making it a water spout. As we watch, she begins to add too much water, making waves around the tornado, making the tornado sloppy and eventually it falls off Zephyr’s hand and splashes on the ground at our feet
The Assassin Chapter 31: Zephyr
As we fly to the city, I can feel my tiger purring on my back. If I turned my head, I would expect to see him curled up like a cat. I’m pretty sure he’s not, but that’s what it feels like. ‘I love riding on your back, Zephyr. It’s so different from the others,’ Ishir saysin my mind, making me growl. I don’t like my rider having ridden on another’s back, he’s MY rider. ‘Yes, I am now. But I wasn’t always, and it was never comfortable for me. Necessary, yes, but I never purred for them, my little dragon,’ he says seductively. ‘You know I’m not little, right?’ I ask him. I mean really, even in his tiger form, I’m much larger than he is. ‘Shall I sink my teeth into your neck again, Zephyr? I only need to be large enough to claim you, and once you’re in your human form, let’s not talk about how, what was Merethyl's word, dainty, you are,’ he says, making me shiver at the thought of his canines in my neck. ‘You like that?’ he purrs. ‘Yes. I like the way you claimed me. I like the mark
The Assassin Chapter 32: Ishir
Okay, this isn’t how I wanted Zephyr to find out that she’s pregnant. “Are you sure, Ishir. I mean I know you have a good sense of smell, but…” I feel her pull the scent that I’ve been smelling from my memory. Her mind is in chaos, and I may have been nearly asleep a moment ago, but now, I’m wide awake, ready to fight the demons of her mind if I have to. However, as soon as she smells the scent from my memory, everything inside her quiets and she looks down, putting her hands on her stomach. “I’m having a kitten?” she asks quietly, her voice thick with emotion. She looks up at me, tears in her eyes and a tentative smile on her face. “I’m going to have a little girl version of you?” she asks. I reach out and cup her face, stroking her cheek with my thumbs. “I was worried about how you would handle this, but you seem….happy?” She nods and a couple of tears fall from her eyes. I swipe them away. “How long will I be pregnant?” she asks me. “I’m not sure. Tana’s and Merethyl’s gesta
The Assassin Chapter 33: Zephyr
I love that I’m pregnant again. I’m not sure how Ancalagon will feel about it, and knowing that my gestation will only be three months, I’m sure I’ll start showing any day. It’s a very short amount of time for a human birth, although, technically, this is a shifter/dragon birth, just in human form. It also means I have to start thinking about what we’re going to do with a young, human child that is completely dependent upon us. Will I have to separate from Ishir? Will he want me to stay home and take care of our child while he continues to go hunting for these missing hybrids and the other missing humans and shifters that he normally searches for. “No. That’s not what I want. I would like for you and I to talk about a way to bring our child or children with us as we search. It won’t be easy, and maybe we need think about not having children back to back, although the thought you having four our my kittens in the next year makes me very happy,” Ishir says, answering the thoughts in my
The Assassin Chapter 34: Ishir
I begin following the scent of fire dragon and earth, making me believe that this young girl is a dragon/elf hybrid. If, as I suspect, these were once missing human children, its just one more reason to find them. If someone were to recognize them and worse, call the authorities, things would become really bad for the shifter community. It wouldn’t take long for the humans to realize that their children had been experimented on and who would they blame? One of their own or a shifter? They would always blame us. I follow her scent out of the city and into the forest. I come across other scents and I turn to look at Avani. “One at a time or do you want to divide and conquer?” I ask. “Divide and conquer,” he and Merethyl say at the same time. I lift my nose, smelling the scents of the others that passed this way. “I smell four. It seems like two are together. One male, one female and they both have the base of the dragon DNA, one earth, one water. Do you want to take them?” I ask th
The Assassin Chapter 35: Zephyr
I can’t believe that Oliver hurt this sweet little girl. I hate him even more than I did before. He doesn’t care about anyone other than himself. He truly is the monster that he claims that we are. “Ishir is the tiger’s name. He is my mate, my rider. Would you be okay if he came out to sit with us?” I ask Nova. “Will he hurt me, Zephyr?” she asks, her big green eyes looking up at me. “No, little one. He won’t. He finds missing children, like you. He helps them to find their families or for those without families, he helps them find a safe place where they can live,” I tell her as Ishir makes his way toward us. Nova snuggles into me. “You smell good,” she says. “What do I smell like to you, little one?” I ask her. “Snow. I like the snow,” she says. “I think she smells like freshly fallen snow,” Ishir says, cautiously coming out of the bushes. “Yes!” she says, but she’s watching Ishir cautiously. I lean in and sniff her hair. Beneath the dirt and grime, I can smell the fire on h
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