Terribly sick.
What did they do to me?
Eyes wide, she ran for the door to the courtyard outside. She was going to vomit. She knew it.
Tanis barely made it through the doors before she ...
Belched?
Yeah, that was it. She belched.
Then an instant later, she was huge. No... not huge. She was a dragon!
Tears misted her eyes as she looked down on the palace and made sure to lift her tail so as not to hurt anyone or destroy anything.
She was a dragon! Joy spread through her.
Until...
Reality sank into her with a vicious bite. If she were a dragon, she couldn’t have Dash.
No. No. No! Panic consumed her as she realized in that moment that she didn’t want this. Not at the cost of losing him.
“Breathe, Tanis,” Naomi said from the ground. “Close your eyes and wish to be human again.”
What? Why?
Not quite sure about that, she did as the queen suggested. And an instant later, she was again in her human body.
Shocked to the core of her soul, she lifted her arms up and saw the same blue kirtle she’d been wearing before she became a dragon.
Naomi rubbed her on the back. “Just as a unicorn can change, so can you. That is our wedding gift.”
Wait... were they saying what she thought they were? “I’m a shapeshifter?”
Marthen smiled at her. “Sort of. It’s the same magick that originally changed the unicorns. We found the spell for it in an old archive. You can only be a dragon or a human. But the choice of form is completely yours to make from this day forward.”
She hugged him and then Naomi. “Thank you both so much!”
Naomi smoothed her hair. “As I told you, take care of Deciel for me and you will have many gifts. But I should warn you of one thing.”
“That is?”
“Be careful shifting while pregnant. You don’t want to harm your baby.”
“I’m not pregnant.”
“Not yet.” Marthen grinned. “But I know a future where you will be.”
She couldn’t wait.
Tanis was still thanking them when Dash and Ryper joined them.
There was a steely somberness to both of them that was a bit unsettling.
“Are you ready to return to Indara?” Dash asked.
Maybe. In his current mood, she wasn’t so sure. “I think so.”
