Page 34 of Thrust into the Light

“You know, I thought dragons protected what they treasured. They would never let any harm come to their prizes. Yet you get the greatest prize of all, and look at what you have done to her. You aren’t worthy of being a dragon for her.” His orange eyes flash a reptilian slit for a second. Good, I’ve gotten the dragons’ attention. The orange in his eyes shifts to blue, like a living flame. I focus my power on him. Why Gods, did she have to have this dragon? I’ve heard about him. The other dragons are, I mean, they are still fucking dragons, but this one was found wandering around alone, and he’s been a handful since he enrolled here last year. His orange flame of power morphs into blue rain that starts to smother it inside of him. Yeah, it’s this fucker.

I look over at the other piece of shit who hurt her. What the fuck is she if she can attract these types of men? I mean, I’m no fucking saint by any means, Connor is that’s for fucking sure, but these two? I had some consultations on Xander for a while, wolf shifter, with fear magic. Everyone thought at first that it was pain magic, because of the way people reacted to him when he’d use his powers, but it has a bit of a different color than pain magic.

I don’t know why I do it, but with my powers still activated, I look over at Farlen. There’s a tight ball of blackness surrounding her. It shimmers even though there is no light. She is still curled up in a ball, but her magical energy keeps pulsing from light to dark, to light to dark. I release my power and walk over to her. Right as I reach her, Connor gets there. He’s out of breath and drenched in sweat. He hands me a pair of sunglasses and puts his hands on his knees as he tries to catch his breath.

I lay down on the grass next to Farlen and pull her into me.Her body tries to resist at first, but she latches onto me and curls up on me. Her entire body is shaking, and she is freezing cold. I don’t know how to get through to her. She isn’t responding to her name. I look up at Connor and he shakes his head at me. He can’t hear her right now. There’s only one thing I can think of to do to reach her. It’s a pretty old song, so if she’s ever heard music before, a decent chance she wouldn’t have heard this one. So I hold her, and I begin to sing to her.

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Farlen

Ican’t move. If I move, they will hurt me next. They started hitting each other, and it felt like they were hitting me. I could feel my bones break as their fists hit each other. Even now, as the fighting has stopped and there is nothing but yelling, all I can feel and hear is them hitting each other. A warm hand touches me and I jerk away from it. I don’t want to be hurt. Where are Connor and Rhi at? The rumbling in my stomach is so powerful right now, it feels like there are knives trying to slice apart my stomach from the inside. It hurts a lot. I curl up smaller on myself. Maybe if I can get small, it can’t hurt me anymore. Warm arms are around me. I am afraid they are going to hurt me. But they just wrap around me tight and it reminds me of Connor and Rhi. I curl in closer to them and their enormous arms wrap around me and hold me close to them. I can feel their heat soaking into my stiff arms. The body holding me doesn’t feel soft; it feels hard, so it must be Rhi.

I don’t know what the sound is, but it’s nice. It’s like he is talking, but it sounds nicer than that. Some words he says for a really long time. The pain in my stomach starts to get better, and quickly, it stops. I peek to see who is here with me, and Rhi’s red eyes see me peeking at him as he continues to say what he is saying. Getting louder with each word.

“There you are gorgeous. Are you hurt?”

I shake my head at him. “Was that?”

This time, he shakes his head at me. “I’m sorry. I didn’t understand what you said. Try again.”

Focusing on my words and how they sound, “What was that?”

He smiles at me. “That was called singing. It is part of a song from a band of Incubi who sang it a long time ago. Did you like it?”

I nod at him, and he gives me a big smile. “Have you heard music before?” I shake my head at him.

“That’s okay, I will find us some songs to listen to and you can let me know what you think of them.”

I feel another warm hand on my back, and I turn to see who it is. Connor is standing there. He looks wet, like he was in the shower.

“Are you okay, sweet girl?” I nod at him, and he smiles, but it looks like a sad smile. “Alright, well I got you some different sunglasses, these are going to be a little lighter than the ones you put on today, so if you need to close your eyes let me know with your head and one of us will carry you home.”

I don’t know what that word means, but it makes my heart feel like it’s full. I like how the word sounds. Home. Boyle crawls over to me and I look at him to see if he is hurt. I don’t see any blood leaking out of him. I look over at the one with the orange eyes. I haven’t heard his name yet.

“Alright sweet girl, let’s get you up before you fall asleep on Rhi here, and get you home to your bed.” He picks me up from Rhi and I feel cold again. As he sits me down on the ground Rhi stands up and Boyle makes a funny noise and I turn to look at him. Rhi steps in front of me, blocking my view of them. “Request your blood tested against Farlens. We will know if you are her match or not because she will get the notification of the results as well. Until then, you will deal with me, and only me. I will not tell you a single thing about her, aside from her current wellbeing until I know your results.” Connor grabs my hand and begins pulling me with him. Rhi still blocks me from Boyle and the orange one’s sight. When I am far enough away, I feel the pressure on me from before when Instructor Payne tried to do something to me.

As I look back for Rhi, he is suddenly right there and I have to blink a few times at him. Connor pulls me behind him as we headback to the house, and Rhi grabs my other hand and gives it a hand hug. We walk through the outside door and it feels nice to be back here. Rhi and Connor let go of my hands and walk over to the big chairs. They look over at me and both of them talk at the same time as I take my sunglasses off.

Rhi is over to me before I can lower them all the way down. His eyes keep bouncing back and forth between my own. Connor stands up and walks over to us. Rhi is still looking between my two eyes.

“Sweet girl, how are your eyes? Why did you take off your sunglasses? It’s still pretty bright in here?”

I look around the room. There are a lot of lights on, and a lot of light still coming in through the window. It hurts a little to look at that light, but the light in the room doesn’t hurt. Rhi reaches up and puts his hand on my face. I tilt my head into his hand. The warmth of his hand feels so nice.

I try to think of how to say what I need to. I don’t know if I have the words to explain it. I touch my head and tell that to Connor. He smiles at me.

“It’s okay Farlen, if you don’t know how to describe it right now, we can try to help you. Do the lights in the room hurt your eyes?” I shake my head at him. Rhi takes his warm hand off my face and walks over to where the light is coming in through the window. “What about the light from the window? Does that hurt?”

“Little, but better, like with sunglasses.”

They both smile at me. Rhi pulls out his phone and starts looking through it. Connor grabs my hand and brings me over to the big chairs. He has me sit down, and he starts moving around some tables and other chairs. Rhi looks up from his phone and nods to Connor. He sets it down on the table.

“Alright Farlen, I’ve got a song for you to listen to. This is a Siren who is singing, and it has some music to it. I want you to stand up and just listen to it. If your body feels like it wants to move along with it, just let it move. The song is called Every time we Touch by Cascada. I want you to let me know what you thinkof it when it’s done.”

He presses something on his phone. And I close my eyes. A nice voice starts to sing. She doesn’t sound as good as Rhi. I like the song. There’s a part that makes my entire body rumble, kind of like my stomach does, but it’s all over. As I listen to what the lady is saying, I can’t help but smile. It’s almost like she is singing about me and them. I don’t know what a kiss is, but it feels close to what I feel for them. I feel the tears fall from my eyes. And the music stops. I open my eyes and look at Rhi.

“I’m sorry. I thought you might like that song. I will see if I can find a different song.”

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