Page 23 of The Shadow Path
“It is now.” Laura stood and took Carys’s hand. “Come on. Let’s nap in your bed because I don’t know where mine is yet, and that thing looks like it could bunk a small army.”
“We’ll just sleep for a couple of hours.” Carys was already falling over.
“Sure. That sounds like a plan.”
Nêrys?
“Cadell is calling me.”
“He’s back already?”
Carys had the same thought.Are you already back?
I told you my children were close by.His voice was warm and happy.I will see them again, but I wanted to return to you.
I’m going to sleep for a while. Wake me up in a couple of hours?
Understood. You and Laura should both rest. Tomorrow is going to be a busy day.
I met my cousins.She sent her thoughts to her dragon.They hate me.
Cadell’s rumbly voice came back to her mind.They are thinking of their own position in the Cymric court.
“Surprise, surprise,” she muttered.
“What surprise?” Laura crawled under a heavy, fur-lined blanket.
“Nothing.” Carys patted her arm. “Let’s get some sleep.”
She closed her eyes and opened them moments later to Cadell’s voice in her mind.
Nêrys.
She sat up and noticed that it was completely dark outside. “Okay, so that was more than a minute.” She reached across the bed and shook Laura’s leg. “Hey. It’s night already.”
The cross human is looking for you.
“Duncan?” Carys rubbed her eyes. “What does?—”
A rapping at the door interrupted what she was going to say and had Laura sitting bolt upright in bed.
“But scales aren’t sexy,” Laura blurted.
Carys looked at her and raised an eyebrow. “You’re going to tell me about that dream later.” She crawled out of bed and walked to the door, cracking it open and not at all surprised to see Duncan on the other side. “Hey. What’s up?”
His eyes were dancing. “You want to see something brilliant?”
“Brilliant as in cool? Or brilliant as in something that will require brainpower?”
“Brilliant as in cool,” Duncan said. “Doood.”
“Please don’t saydude. It sounds very wrong.” She looked over her shoulder at Laura. “Okay, let us change our clothes and we’ll be out in a minute.”
Duncan couldn’t stop his grin. “Cool.”
God, he was so adorable when he didn’t care about being goofy. Carys closed the door and leaned against it, her heart beating in rapid rhythm when she remembered Duncan’s smile.
“That smile is making me lean to the grumpy one,” Laura said.
