“Fascinating. Can you walk through walls? Go through objects and people?”
I nodded.
“Very interesting. As a phantom, I can go into an incorporeal form. Well, not really incorporeal as much as, well, phantom, but I'm still visible. I also cannot walk through people but can walk through walls or objects. It'sveryinteresting.” He hummed. “Your power may prove very useful. I was actually wanting to see if you wouldn't mind going with Damien to the human syndicate to eavesdrop on their meeting?”
“You're going to the human syndicate?” I raised a brow at Damien, who shrugged his shoulders.
“I haven't been told about it yet.”
“Yes because I denied the mission,” Rowan snapped, narrowing his gaze at Ted.
“While I understand the concern of not knowing where the relic is, I believe it would be smart. Actually, Wren would be great to have around even the dragon…”
“Not fucking happening,” Rowan roared as Damien blurred forward within his shadows, grabbing Ted around the neck before Ted flickered phantom and stepped out of the way with his arms up in defense.
“Don’teversuggest my mate go to those assholes who want to hurt her,” Damien snarled.
“Apologies.” He rubbed his neck as he flickered back into his regular form. “Speaking of the dragons, that dragon and his mate got away when the other dragons went to the academy. She's pregnant with his child.”
“Which makes her more of a target now.” Rowan sighed, rubbing his temples.
“We will protect them,” Ted assured us.
“Good.”
“I wouldn't mind going to the humans or the dragons and eavesdropping,” I said before sighing. “Well, maybe not the dragons. My mates have good reason not to want me near Blezen, and I’d much rather only be bred by them.”
“How can you say that so nonchalantly?” Rowan growled at me, anger blazing in his gaze.
I blinked a few times, scratching at my hands. “It must be the dark magic. Sorry.”
Rowan gripped my chin and made me look up at him. “I won’t risk you.”
“I understand. I wouldn't risk any of you either.”
“Glad we’re seeing eye-to-eye, fledgling.”
“However, we should find out what the humans are going to do with the relic.” I leaned into his hold. “Send Damien and me. We’ll stay in the shadows.”
Rowan’s flames increased in his irises before he nodded, reluctance infiltrating the bond. “You won’t leave the shadows, no matter what.”
“I promise.”
A surge of something dark danced in my chest, but I pushed it back down.
I had to make myself useful during this war, even if it meant going somewhere I really didn’t want to go.
FIFTEEN
Wren
Mypawshitagainstthe soil in the Bestial Forest as I darted through the underbrush.
The hot summer breeze flattened my fur as I propelled myself forward, and I let out a few yips as I jumped over some fallen logs.
My gut quivered before settling almost immediately as I caught another glimpse of my black paws that were once pure white. I knew it was because of the dark magic. I knew I should’ve been scared or worried or frightened, but I wasn’t. I was just complacent about it all.
Rhett screeched as he flew above me in bat form, and I came to a halt in some long grass. The grass brushed my fur as I turned around in it. It was almost like a meadow within the forest, and the sunlight streamed through the openings in the large trees overhead.
