Reno hooted and finished limbering himself up in defensive stance in the middle of the mat. “Well, bring it on, fellow misfit.”
They sparred for quite a while, both of them working up a sweat, panting a little bit by the time they were done. And they had an audience of younger alphas when they were finished as well.
They were surrounded almost immediately when they stopped. “Could you teach us that move, Reno? Could you show us how you did that, Talon?” The chorus of young voices was a little bit overwhelming, but he was proud to know that his skills were well thought of.
A sudden shriek in his mind made him stagger, and he grunted, trying to figure out what the hell had just happened.
Reno went pale under his scales, his eyes going wide. “Kami!”
He turned and raced out of the training salle, and Talon immediately followed, searching for Mercury in his mind. And coming up blank.
Reno roared, the huge dragon heading straight up, which was the opposite direction of their quarters.
Where are you going?
To get my damn mate?
Talon followed Reno, trusting the big warrior implicitly, but he didn’t understand.
Mercury was at home.
No. Kami took Mercury to play with rocks. I think they were hoping to find your baby’s stone. I don’t know, but they were going to go to the caves.
Surely there wasn’t a cave-in or anything. They must have just decided to slide and then they’ll be back in a minute.
At least he could hope so, right?
What were they thinking?Reno demanded even as they crashed through the doors to Cain’s main office, sending Betty scrambling to her feet.
“What’s going on?”
Reno roared and tried to explain, even though he was in full-on dragon, and Talon just ran toward the caves searching for Mercury, for his presence, for his scent, for anything.
He wouldn’t give in to panic. No, he had to find Mercury.
Hailee! Hailee, where are you? Tell me, and I’ll come to you.
Silence rang in his ears, and he panted, looking for a sign that Kami and Mercury had come this way.
He found it—a pair of water bottles, a pack with sandwiches and apples.Reno, they were here!
Reno came in barreling into the room, still mostly dragon.What are they now?
I don’t know, I can’t reach him. Can you reach Kami at all?
Reno blew out a frustrated breath.They could be on the moon.
Don’t say that!From what he understood about how this worked, if Kami had wanted to go to the moon and Mercury hadn’t been trying to control himself, they could be on the moon. Dead.
Mercury wasn’t the most careful dragon where his friends were concerned, and while Kami wouldn’t do anything to hurt Mercury, Talon could totally see him grabbing Mercury’s hand and saying, “I wish we could go to the moon.”
Reno stared at him. “You know you’re going to have to fix that before you have children. Can you imagine?”
Talon didn’t even want to try.
“It smells bad.”
Kami looked around at where they’d slid to, staring, eyes huge. “Where the fuck are we?”
