“That makes sense now, thanks.” I smiled.
I took his mother to the arena. She just stared at him with a smile. “I’m so proud of him.”
“I wish he could’ve told me what he planned.”
She chuckled. “That is Blake for you. He surprises you in the worst ways that make you question everything.”
“Did you know he took skin off him to make my bracelet?”
“Yeah, a bit of an idiot, too. I’m afraid he got that from his dad.”
I chuckled.
“Now he is crazy. He once took an entire layer of skin off his hide to make your father’s black cloak.”
“Black cloak?”
“Yeah, it took months for the skin to heal. Learned the hard way never to do that again.”
“My dad wore it when I ascended.”
Her face melted as tears welled up in her eyes. “They were so close. Robert is struggling a lot with Al not telling him about you, not trusting him enough.”
“About that, my father asked him to give him a message.”
Her face lit up as her gray eyes sparkled. There were no dark spots in them. “He did?”
I nodded. “I’m just going to go.” My gaze flickered to Blake’s humongous figure, and I walked back to the castle.
I found him sitting in the kitchen speaking to my dad and King Helmut.
Dad smiled as I entered, and Robert’s gaze flickered to me.
“How is the painting coming, Elena?” King Helmut asked.
“It’s a gigantic wall, still busy with outlining everything.”
“I can’t wait to see it.”
“She is really talented. A lot of schools would’ve taken her without a second doubt. I actually considered it at a stage, but I couldn’t leave her vulnerable to Fox.”
I tapped Robert’s arm as Dad kept talking about my talent. “Would you like to go for a walk?”
45
BLAKE
Itook a deep breath and inhaled the smell of hay. A hunger I’d never experienced before filled my gut the same time as my eyes fluttered open.
Blurry images of shadows on walls became clear with each wink.
Everything looked small and my tendril hanging over my paw was the first thing that jumped at me.
I was still in my dragon form.
Images poured in what happened before the witnessing process started.
Jako was right. He nailed the Dent process when he said it was a witnessing process and I helped them. How? I didn’t know?
