When we find the next laboratory, it’s much the same. We get there in time to free the dragons, but then they die in front of us. Over the next month, we find two more and each time it’s the same thing. We can’t get to them fast enough. Even with Everett trying to get into their skulls, we just don’t have enough time.
We’re all sitting outside the most recent laboratory. I’m holding my mate once again as she cries. Her stomach is now protruding to the point that it’s nearly impossible to hide her pregnancy. Everett is consoling Kaylani, and thankfully, she responds to him. I was worried the first time that she’d go into a dragon’s lament. Nothing is more heart-wrenching than a dragon’s cry, except when my mate cries.
“We have to do something different,” Bajaro says, watching sadly as I c
