Adrian took the dragon’s tail straight to the chest and went sailing into a tree. Yeah, his neck was broken, and he was definitely dead again. We needed to calm Astrid before she accidentally killed someone who wasn’t going to come right back.
“Sing!” I yelled at Liam.
We were told Liam could force a shift, but it wasn’t good for the animal. It was different when he sang. He wasn’t giving an order and forcing anything. He was soothing the beast and letting them know it was okay to let their human come back out.
Before Liam could even open his mouth, a bunch of dragons from the other side of the school spilled into the clearing and surrounded Astrid. They started this rhythmic chant in a language I didn’t know.
Astrid immediately calmed and eventually shifted back. One of the men yanked their shirt off and pulled it over her head. They all bowed to her in reverence. Yeah, Astrid was like Lucian to the dragons. Hopefully, Blaize learned his lesson and didn’t send her a dick pic.
“What the fuck was that?” Liam asked.
“Dragon tongue. You wouldn’t get it. It’s how we get the younglings to change back when they shift for the first time. You have to speak in a language the dragon understands.”
“Shit, did I kill Adrian, too?” she moaned.
Ivar shot her a murderous glare, even though it was clearly an accident and Adrian wouldn’t stay dead. Before Ivar could get a little stabby, Adrian burst into flames and sat back up covered in soot.
“No worries, Astrid,” Adrian yelled. “Your dragon is sexy.”
Alexios blew out an irritated sigh.
“Last night, he was trying to coax Iman in the shower for a fuck and slipped and cracked his head open. He regenerated with a boner and immediately wanted to fuck again.”
Then I realized Lucian wasn’t here. I grabbed Khalid and Liam, but Lucian definitely wasn’t here.
“Where’s Lucian?”
I was in a panic. I knew he had speed healing, but could he survive getting crushed by a dragon? My crows started flying towards me, corralling something. It was Lucian! He’d shifted for the first time in the chaos.
“Oh, you’re so cute!”
Serious, his bat was adorable. He let out a squeak and clumsily landed on my shoulder.
“He’s terrified and upset by the indignity of it all,” Liam said. “Let’s get him back to our dorm and help him shift back.”
Khalid could help, but we were going to need Darian for bat stuff.
The Prince of Darkness was the cutest li’l bat, but I could hear him because ya know, primordial nature god. The bloke was paranoid as fuck he was going to get stuck like that and not be able to use the tech his parents were shipping.
I thought we could do the little belly rub and tune song and dance like we’d done when Khalid was stuck, but the little Muppet tried to bite me and insisted while he was stuck, he might as well get a lesson in withmyfriend Darian. She was my friend first. If she was going to share lesbian cunnilingus tips with anyone, it should have beenme.
Khalid came back with Darian and Cleo. Since Darian and I were besties now, I let her know it was us that brought the poopapocalypse down on Blaize so we could laugh about it since he probably sent her a dick pic, too.
“So,everyoneheard about Astrid. Blaize’s dorm is down the hall from ours and he thinks she going to be his dragon queen.”
I snorted because now that these people weren’t drinking the Lola Kool-Aid, they were pretty neat to be around. Blaize wasnotAstrid’s type. Adrian wasn’t even her type, and I was pretty sure he was everyone’s cup of tea.
Nah, I saw her eyeballing Mazen before he started eyeballing Iman. She was into tall, dark, and intense, not the golden boys. She already had two bad boys and one naughty lass sniffing around her and I could see those threads glowing stronger every day.
“Good luck with that because I don’t think he’s her type,” Khalid said.
See? Even Khalid noticed, and I hadloadsmore sex with all types of people than he had.
“So, Cleo is going to shift and I’ll try to walk you through what to do. You’ll want to fly over the bed because the first shift is unreliable. You’ll either fight to shift back to human or it’ll just happen. Since you’re a bat, you aren’t going to have to do the walk of shame with your dick out. Well, you’ll have to do that, but you’ll fall out of the air and crash to the ground and it sucks.”
Lucian started chittering, and I went to translate what he was thinking when my new bestieshushedme. Besties didn’t shush each other, but I wasn’t going to stab her because we were friends.
“Cleo and I both speak bat. We can communicate with him.”
