I can feel Avani holding onto my mind. It’s almost like I’m laying on top of him and his arms are wrapped around me, holding me protectively.
‘Always so accurate in your descriptions of me,’ he says softly in my mind and begins purring gently.
‘What happened? I feel … strange. Dizzy.”
‘The Chief apparently has a son no one knew about. He attacked you. He …”
I feel Avani’s anger, his fear for me, and the fear of losing me weighing heavily on him. In my mind, I snuggle against him, helping to calm him.
I feel him sigh, holding me more tightly. ‘He bashed you in the head with a wooden beam and fractured your skull. Your brain was hemorrhaging. I had to heal you.’
‘Mmmm, good thing I have a dragon who loves me.’
‘I love you so much, Merethyl. You can never leave me. I was so afraid. So
