Page 15 of Enchanted Crown
“You could slow down,” I added. “We are already going to beat them to The Drak without maintaining this speed.”
But I’ve missed this,she admitted, oddly serious.
“The breeze in your fur?” I asked. “Or is it the messing with your passengers?”
Yes. To both.A pause.Are you sure you will be able to do this without Emric’s help?
“No,” I responded. “Nyx or Whit might have to fetch him for us.”
What a waste of your powers. Enoch.
“I know,” I agreed. “But if it gets us even one name, it’s worth it.”
By the timethe prisoner arrived, I determined they were making such a ruckus that there was no way half of Dra Skor hadn’toverheard. Apparently, Enoch had been a prick the entire trip here. Earning multiple groans and roars from the dragons hauling his sorry self.
The minute the cage set down in the lake in barely enough water to slosh over Enoch’s feet, Nyx swiped a talon in the cage. He wounded Enoch, but not enough to do any long-term damage. Meanwhile Enoch immediately laid down, not wasting any time in the water. He hadn’t been submerged in water since his trip to Obsidian and was clearly missing it.
I will never cooperate, Enoch was sending to all of us.I don’t know what kind of torture you have in mind, but you might as well kill me. It won’t work.
Enoch, as a prisoner, would not be privy to the information that was well known across Dra Skor, would have no way of expecting what would happen next. Esta shifted before him, back to her human form. It seemed he had been too focused on making someone mad enough to kill him that he hadn’t even noticed Malachi or Amory, or that the lake was no longer black either, and her shift caught him completely off guard.
His gasp swept across The Drak.No.
Yeah. She can shift again, you prick,Nyx sneered.
Can all of you?
“I have to heal them one at a time,” I offered. “So it is a slow process. The queen, Amory, and Malachi are all able to shift back and forth now. A lottery is being drawn up for the rest of the Enchanted.”
You brought me here why? To gloat?
“Awfully good at demanding answers considering you are aprisoner,” Esta said, her voice full of barely concealed rage. I could only imagine the amount of things Enoch had said to provoke her on the way over, much like he had when he was trying to get her to fight him and make her look bad to the people of Keld.
Awfully good at pretending the entire kingdom isn’t falling apart, aren’t you?he bit back.
My magic flared just before she moved like she wanted to deck him, human form and all, but I stepped forward instead. “Queen Esta?”
“Yes?”
And you are sleeping with the enemy? This guy?Enoch snorted from the cage.Surprised Reyald hasn’t taken the crown off you himself.
My power flared again, and I didn’t know if it was picking up the lethal intent pouring off Enoch or what.
“Es?” I asked again gently.
She looked at me, fire in her eyes, her jaw tight, her fury clear as day on her face even though it was barely dawn.
“Please go get Emric for me.”
I can go,Nyx volunteered.
“No. She can,” I disagreed.
“Why?” Esta’s anger faded to confusion as she gave me her full attention.
“Because you do not need to stand here and take this. Nor do you need to see it. The rest of us can handle this.”
Enoch tried to make some other rude remark, but I sent thick chains of my Enchantment out without delay, wrapping around and freezing his ugly face, all but his very eyeballs.
