And when you’re over me
Like a sunrise over raging seas
Your beast calms this beauty
My broken pieces become whole.
* * *
Take me away
On wings of gold
Sing to me of
A world unknown
I’ve been lost so long
My skin’s grown cold
But lend me your fire
Watch our dreams unfold.”
* * *
I listen to her words and am swept away by images of being over her this morning, of my mating trill echoing in the room, buzzing against her skin. There’s only warmth in her eyes. The music she’s making is brilliant, and I’m tempted to record this, but I don’t hit the button. This is for me. Just for me. This one, I’m keeping for myself.
Our eyes are locked through the glass as she strums the last few stanzas of her song, beaming at me with a smile I can tell comes straight from her heart.
That was beautiful, I think into her head.
“Thank you.” She rests her guitar in the rack and comes to me, throwing her arms around me in the small space. I hug her back, wrapping my arms around her and lifting her feet off the floor.
“You can do this, Zoe. Plan your album. We are going to make you a star.” I set her on her own two feet and smile down at her.
“It felt like… It felt like being in the Gold Room. It felt like I was channeling the goddess.”
“It feels like sorcery when you sing. I think, with practice, you could learn to leverage the power in your voice. I’m no witch, but I can sense magic, and you have it.”
“I’m beginning to wonder…”
“Wonder what?”
“When I was at Beltane, Jeremy admitted he had feelings for me.”
A growl rips from my chest before she can get another word out, and I can only imagine what my expression does based on her reaction. “Tell me what happened. Did he touch you?” It’s the dragon’s voice, gritty and harsh, not my own.
She stumbles back, her smile melting into a frown. “Never mind. It doesn’t matter.”
“It matters to me,” my dragon grits out.
“Seb, your eyes.”
I close them and shake my head, taking charge of my inner beast once more. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean for it to come out like that. What happened with Jeremy?”
“Maybe it’s best we don’t talk about this.”
