Page 27 of Enchanted Crown
He leaned in and gave me a hug as soon as he was back on his feet. “Thank you, Keir.”
I hugged him back. “I am only sorry we couldn’t have gotten to you sooner.”
“I had faith you’d get to me eventually, Prince,” Whit laughed. “And gods you’re tall.”
“Gotta say it,” Emric said as he moved to give Whit a clap of a hug. “You are a little older than I thought you’d be.”
“What is age anyway? When we were all frozen in ours for years? I should be older yet.”
“Valid point,” Emric laughed.
Feeling he would pass out soon, I did Whit the favor of drying his clothes as soon as we moved to shore.
It took close to an hour and a little coaching, but all three of the other shifters, shifters chosen for the first lottery day, were healed. Four total shifters were changed this day. I inhaled deeply taking in the blue hues of The Pit. I’d used a fair amount of magic but was also far from exhaustion.
“Why didn’t you let me help?” Krew asked, bumping my elbow to his.
“I want your help. Just not here,” I said quietly. “I sent Esta to find someone I need your help healing.”
Krew rubbed his hands together. “So, I finally get to do something?”
We’d stayed up entirely too late talking the night before. I knew he was plenty busy in Wylan. And as far as we both knew, there were no people from Corsha hiding out in Wylan. And if they weren’t in Wylan, then where were they? Where had an entire country of people fled to? Granted there could be a few Corshans in Wylan, but an entire country full of people would be damn hard to hide.
Maybe a few more Agrian spies were still in Wylan too, but even then, they were there for help and information, not harm.
I now knew there was a team of Wylan Enchanted set to sail toBrakken in a few weeks. Since their Enchantment was wrapped up in their water source, it stood to reason that Brakken might be the easiest country to fix. Three of the five countries in the realm were beginning to heal.
Too much was going on, yet here I stood on Dra Skor soil next to Krew. How much things had changed in just a year’s time. We were unraveling the evil my father had suffocated the entire realm with one shifter at a time.
“Too bad your trip isn’t longer,” I told him. “With the two of us together, we’d have the whole damn country fixed in a few weeks.”
Krew laughed. “We do make a good team, do we not?”
Esta landed just as a few shifters arrived, taking in the four shifters now in their human forms. Whit had already passed out. The others were close, a carriage waiting just outside The Pit to take them to the castle to finish healing.
Esta let out a roar of approval just before the canine shifters sent up a howl that made every hair on my neck stand up.
“It is a good day for Dra Skor,” Krew said with a grin.
“It is a good day for the realm,” I agreed.
We landed at The Drak,Nyx meeting us in his dragon form. The queen’s cousin Samori was already there stamping around also.
Krew muttered to me, taking in the rougher looking dragons, “Your dragon queen is definitely...smootherlooking.”
Esta shifted into her human form to supply, “I’m going to take that as a compliment.”
Krew gave her a nod of his head. “I meant it as such. I didn’t know if you would take to the wordprettybeing used to describe a dragon.”
She was finding it hard not to like my brother, even if he was king of her biggest and longest rival. “I wouldn’t hate it.”
So four shifters healed isn’t enough for you today, Princey?Nyx asked.
“Not today. Not with my brother here.” We had sent Emric back with the others. This was personal. And an experiment of sorts. It was not the lottery order, but being close to the queen of Dra Skor had its perks. As long as I healed the canines at The Pit, anything I did after that was superfluous.
My eyes went to Samori behind Nyx as he climbed a low hanging tree branch. I had no idea how it didn’t break under his weight. Every time I had ever seen him out flying, he’d been flying like hell itself was nipping at his heels, randomly doing dips and dives. I think it was just how he was. Stillness was not something Samori did.
Nyx gave his head a shake and stared at me.What does that mean?
