Page 90 of Consort's Dragon
Argent, to his credit, didn’t eat Garth for his familiarity.Simply dipped his head and huffed hotly.
But did that scare his onboard mechanic?
Nope.Garth rubbed his hands.“Do I smell a hint of sulfur?Is that what makes you breathe fire?”
Poor Argent.Griff could see Garth pestering him for answers.
Griff headed to Avera who’d disembarked and patted Starlight’s side.“Thank you.”
Starlight murmured,You’re welcome.
“Where are you going now?”she asked.
With you to Daerva.
“I thought you didn’t want to be involved.”
I don’t, but that is where the guardians will have taken my kin.
Avera pursed her lips.“How will you get there?I don’t think Griff’s ship is big enough to hold you, let alone Argent.”
Griff swaggered over in time to catch her question.“Don’t you know?Dragons can shrink.”
At the claim, Avera eyed Argent skeptically.“Into what?A smaller mountain?”
Argent shook with amusement.Shall we dazzle her with my beauty?
“I’ll show you,” Griff offered.“Simhi?”
“Got a cup right here, Cap.Knew you’d need one eventually.”
Avera frowned as Griff pulled a dagger and her mouth rounded as he slashed it over his palm.Simhi stood ready to catch the dripping blood in the vessel.The queen’s confusion mounted when he placed the cup on the ground in front of Argent.He then returned to Avera’s side and murmured, “Watch this.”
Argent made a show of clasping the cup between its thin dragon lips and swallowing the entire thing whole.
As Argent shifted, an ogling Avera exclaimed, “He turned into a man!”
“Shocking, right?”Griff muttered.“Not something the stories ever mentioned.”
“I wonder if that was in the missing pages of the book,” was Avera’s cryptic reply.
“Ah, you warm me with your admiring stare.It’s not easy being this beautiful.”Argent struck a pose.
“Pants,” Monty barked, thrusting a pair at him.
Starlight nudged Avera and Griff heard the other dragon ask,Would you do the same for me?
“I don’t have a cup,” Avera replied weakly.
Kreed bellowed, “Oy, anyone got a mug?”
Kelly, who’d never left the boat, shook his head only to exclaim, “Would a bailing bucket do?”
Starlight sniffed.A bucket.I used to get my blood in a golden chalice back in the day.
“You don’t have a choice.It’s all we got,” Griff said as he retrieved it.
“Does it have to be full?”Avera eyed the bucket many times larger than the cup he’d filled.
