Page 37 of Bewitching the Dragon
Why the hell did the gargoyles become so agitated every time someone said ‘Daughter of Light’?
“Delilah said I’m more than just a witch,” Becca said.
“You’ve met Delilah?” Argyle asked.
Becca nodded.
“I would advise you to stay away from her. That woman rarely makes wise choices.”
“She’s the only one who actually told me the truth.” Becca’s voice was frigid. Rahu and Argyle both winced.
“So anyway, I’m part witch, which—ha-ha, see what I did there?”
Rahu and Argyle stared at her until she cleared her throat and said, “So is the fact that I’m a witch the reason I was able to summon you?”
“You summoned him?” Argyle said, his body practically quivering with, Rahu guessed, indignation.
Becca shrugged. Damn, she was handling this pretty amazingly. He’d been worried, at first, because she seemed determined not to believe any of it. And now she was practically nonchalant, as if she’d been aware of her magic for her entire life.
Our mate’s a trooper, his dragon said.
“Wait, what?” Rahu blurted.
Argyle and Becca both looked at him expectantly.
“Er, sorry. My dragon.” He glanced at Becca. “He, um, talks to me. Sometimes.”
Becca canted her head. “Really? Like, there are voices in your head?”
“Well, one voice, but yeah.”
“What’s he saying? It’s a he, right?”
Rahu nodded. “Yeah, he’s a, um, he. And he’s just talking smack.”
His dragon snorted. Rahu did his best to ignore him.
“Like about how he stopped those glowing red balls that warlock was throwing at us? What were those, anyway? And what’s a warlock? Is that the male version of a witch?”
So she’d gone from disbelieving to accepting to soaking up knowledge like a sponge, it would seem.
Rahu waved at Argyle. “I don’t know much about them, so he’s going to have to explain.”
Argyle didn’t appear to want to explain, but he was also basically between a rock and a hard place, so didn’t have much choice. “Warlocks tend to be male, yes. And yes, they are similar to witches, however, also vastly different.”
“What does that mean?” Becca asked. “Can witches be male and female?”
“Witches can be both male and female. Both warlocks and witches harness magic in similar ways. The difference is warlocks do not have a conscience.”
“So they’re like demons? Wait, do demons exist?”
Rahu pretended to cough to hide his chuckle, while Argyle tossed him a glare.
“Yes, demons exist, although they do not live in this world. Gargoyles actually came into existence to eradicate them from this world, many, many moons ago. And when we completed that task, we became protectors over anyone who was worthy and deserving.”
“Do you protect humans too?”
“Sometimes, yes.”
