“Beautiful. You should probably get dressed. I can’t imagine any scenario where our current relationship would be met with applause from any member of your family.” He immediately conjured a pair of chain mail breeches.
Tanis snorted at his wardrobe choice. “You’re not meeting them as a unicorn?”
“I want as much protection between my balls and your sister as I can get at the moment.” He added a few more layers of armor to his groin.
Laughing, she went to retrieve her clothes. “You know, if she is thoroughly pissed, that will only melt and scald those sensitive areas of your body. You’re better off as a unicorn.”
“Fuck me, you’re right,” he breathed before he changed into a unicorn... with leather armor covering his equine groin.
Laughing even harder, she dressed as quickly as she could. One thing about Ragna, she had no patience, and Tanis couldn’t imagine what had brought her here.
It wasn’t like her sister to leave home for any reason. She loved Indara. Reva would at least travel from time to time to other cities, and even other kingdoms.
Ragna seldom went more than a few leagues from their father’s palace, as she believed Esin to be the greatest city in the world, and the dragons to be the superior race above all others.
But if this was because Tanis had left home, she didn’t want to keep her sister waiting. Ragna would be furious over having to come fetch her. The slightest delay would only serve to grow her anger exponentially. Something that really wasn’t hard to do.
Tanis had been known to infuriate her older sister by simply entering a room.
Clearing her throat.
Being seen...
Sadly, she and Ragna had never gotten along. From the moment of Tanis’s birth, Ragna had hated her and begrudged her everything.
By the time they made it to the courtyard where her sister had landed, Baldur, Tova and Hinrik were trying to calm Ragna who was having one of her more stellar tantrums.
Tanis drew up short as she realized just how big a dragon was when she wasn’t in a dragon’s body. Funny how her sister had seemed rather small to her in the past.
Now... she was barely the size of one of Ragna’s black dew claws.
This was absolutely terrifying. No wonder most of the other species wet themselves in their presence. She suddenly had awhole new respect for Dash when he’d confronted her in that net.
Ragna reared up to tower over them. Like Davin, she had a green head and wings, with yellow accents. Her belly was a warmer gold that blended into orange scales. Tanis had always thought of them as much prettier than her own orange ones.
Her sister far more graceful in movement.
Their father had thought so, too. He’d often called Tanis clunky, and truthfully, she was in comparison.
At least that was her thought until Ragna stamped her foot and shook the ground so hard that she almost fell from the tremor it caused. Had Dash not been beside her, she probably would have fallen. Instead, she caught herself against his side.
“I know my sister’s here, and I demand to see her. Where do you have her chained?”
Without thinking, Tanis pushed herself away from her unicorn, and went to her sister. “Ragna, stop.”
Her sister whipped her tail.
Tanis barely ducked it in time to let it whistle over her head.
Then, Ragna would have scorched her had Dash not rushed to cover her. “Enough!” he roared.
Ragna froze at the authority in his tone. “What is this?” She studied his unicorn form, trying to figure out if he was the king or not.
Tanis straightened up so that she could face her again. “It’s me, coal-breath. Would you stop terrifying the natives?”
Ragna finally understood what she was saying. “Tanis? What did they do to you?”
“Nothing. I asked to be made human.”
