Page 5 of Vicar
He frowned, upset she felt that way even though she was right. His Múspellsheimr side wasn’t pleased with her and, granted, capable of things his Sigdir half wasn’t.
“What if Tor comes and talks to you first?” He was careful not to touch anything in a cave that could play tricks on dragons. That could cripple them. “Might you talk to him?”
“You mean the guy who affected my little sister so much?” she reminded. “Who made her super furious? I don’t think so.”
Vicar shrugged at Tor. She had a good point.
“It wasn’t my intention.” Though Tor frowned, he was curious. “Do you know why I frightened her? Made her so angry?”
“No,” she replied. “But I can tell you this. Raven’s never been so mad, and that’s saying something. Luckily Dagr and Maya got her under control for the safety of the entire Northeast because that would’ve been one heck of a tsunami.”
He was glad she was so connected because he’d received no such assurance from Dagr.
“Trinity?”Jade said, connecting telepathically with them all.“You’re here!”He could hear the confusion in her voice.“Where, though?”
“Beats me,”Trinity replied.“All I know is it’s a safe space. Somewhere Vicar can’t go all psycho.”
“There’s a place like that?”
“Seems so.”
When he scowled at Tor, his cousin only shrugged and grinned. “Youdohave a reputation.”
He did and didn’t much like it.
“Just come out, Trinity,” he called. “I assure you, I’m fully Sigdir at the moment and would like to meet you.”
“How do I know you’ll stay Sigdir?”
Though tempted to remind her that she’d not only called this place safe but dared him with her eyes in the flames at the ash, he knew better. Best to embrace his kind, softer side and get her out of the shadows. Make her feel safe. Because she was. Very much so. He would never harm her.
At least not his Sigdir half.
“See, now thoughts like that don’t help you any,” she grumbled, reading his mind far too easily. “I think I’m good right here.”
“Right here,” he murmured, realizing he could follow her thoughts just as easily. In fact...
He closed his eyes and focused on the feel of her. How soft and feminine she was. The opposite of the creature he had encountered when he first traveled through the ash. He could admit he liked the feel of her dragon. The goodness in her. The overwhelming need to help others. Something she felt right now, whether she liked it or not.
So much so that she had sidled closer, wondering if he was okay.
She even wondered if Tor was all right after being subjected to Raven. He kept his eyes closed and focused. Moved past her mind to what she saw. Three shimmering stalactites. Two big boulders. One smaller moss-covered one. He opened his eyes and looked around for those landmarks, only to realize she was close.
Close enough that he finally closed the distance and confronted the woman who thought to tame him.
