Aurora smirked, the shimmer of dragonfire already glinting in her eyes. “Looks like it’s time to fly.”
“Indeed,” Kat chimed in, already glowing with that pre-shift heat Hator always brought with her. She stripped and handled Kingsley her clothes, and I fought myself to stay put and behave.
It was not the right Moment to have a raging b***r.
In a single breath, the clearing was scorched in light.
Feathers caught fire as Kat burst into flame—Hator’s wings unfolding like twin suns as they tore into the sky.
A heartbeat later, Aurora cracked through reality with a thunderclap, black scales unfurling as Hester rose, serpentine and magnificent, scattering leaves like a storm.
“Kyle,” I called, even though I didn’t need to. He was already thinking it.
“We split,” he said aloud anyway, his
