Mercury grinned and licked the icing off his lips. “He rescued me.”
“Oh, wow, that’s exciting.”
Was it? He thought it probably was. “I think so too! I’m sorry that you had to find your way here by yourself. Although it is that you did do that, because that means you’re smart and resourceful.”
“It is exciting. A little scary, I think, because I worry. What if I don’t find a braaken of my own?”
Oh, that was an awful fear. Mercury felt for Nayel, down to his bones. “You will. Not only that, everyone doesn’t have to have a braaken or a hailee. People can just have each other.”
“This is true.” Talon nodded. “My brother had a lover for a very long time, and it was just the two of them, and then they found their hailee together. But for a good amount of time they were just the two of them, and they were very happy.”
Nylel stared at Talon, but eventually he nodded. “So, I suppose I should wait and see what the goddess has planned for me.”
Mercury bobbed his head. “You should totally see what fate has in store for you. I was just very lucky. I think that my braaken knew to come for me. I didn’t want to go at first; he had to convince me. I was scared to leave.”
Nayel pinked and crossed his arms over his chest. “Oh, I was ready to leave when it was time for me to go. I was very prepared to run. I was worried I was going to be given to someone I didn’t want to be with, and that would have been absolutely no fun for either one of us.”
Oh, he hoped he hadn’t offended his new friend… “They say some matches are made by third parties and are good even if you don’t know the other dragon, but some are not. I think regardless of whether you didn’t want the match, it was a good thing you left.”
Talon cleared his throat. “Yes, and there are many braaken here looking for hailees to be in love with. So, I would not worry about not having any choices.”
Nayel looked so grateful at that, and Mercury had to bite back a chuckle. He could just imagine Nayel being a gift for a very lonely braaken.
In fact, he would say a little prayer to the gods right now in hopes that it helped Nayel achieve just that.
Nayel smiled at Talon. “I hope that you’re right. I would very much like to fall in love. I think it sounds like a great adventure.”
Mercury caught himself nodding because Nyall was right. It was a grand adventure.
Scary, sure. A lot of this had been scary, and he had the feeling that being pregnant was going to be more scary still.
But falling in love had been a grand adventure.
His adventure.
Chapter
Thirteen
Talon threw Boone across the room, his ill humor venting itself on his sparring partner’s poor body. He wasn’t trying to be mean, he was just really frustrated.
Poor Mercury had been so ill, everything he smelled made him throw up. And even with Rowan working on all sorts of solutions, he was beginning to think they were going to have to search for a magical cure to the morning sickness.
Mercury had been thin already after existing on tinned fish and beans, and he wasn’t sure that the poor darling had any weight to lose. Especially not when he was going to be supporting a baby.
“Man, you’re in a mood.” Boone picked himself up off the floor and shook himself. “Everything okay? Your hailee decided he didn’t want you anymore or something?”
“Of course he wants me,” Talon roared. “And I can’t help it that he’s so sick. I don’t know how to fix it.”
“Have you asked Rowan?”
His second roar shook the walls. “Of course I have asked. He’s coming…he’s visiting every day, and Mercury just keeps getting smaller.”
Boone tilted his head, then headed for the door. “Come with me.”
“What?”
“I’m serious. Come with me. I have a little bit of an in with a healer.”
