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Chapter 14

When Morgan opened
her eyes, she was in her bed in the Forsaken Mountain.  There was a naked man
at her back.

Eben?

Here Shameaa. 
The
arm at her waist tightened, bringer her closer to his hard hot body.  Ladon? 
Rhune?  Melly?  Was everyone safe?

Everyone is
safe. 
He said and she burst into tears.  Burying her head in the pillow
while he cuddled against her back. 
Shameaa...
Eben said finally.
  You
break my heart.

I thought I
lost you.

No, you saved
me.
  He said and there was something there that she didn't understand.

"What is
it?"  She asked sniffling and rolling so that she faced him.

"Rhune could
have died, you could have died.  I did not expect or want that
sacrifice."  He placed hands on either side of her face and studied what
he saw there.  "I suppose I am not used to being the one rescued."

"You were not
the only one rescued."  Ladon said from where he stood watch on the balcony. 
His eyes lacked their usual twinkle.  "You should not have taken that hit
for me."  His voice broke.  "I almost lost you both."

"Ladon." 
Morgan said with joy.  Sitting up and reaching out to him.  He came to the bed
and to her hand, pressing it against his face.  "I almost lost you both. 
Better to die than that."

"No.  You are
here in my hand."  She said softly understanding exactly how he felt. 
"We are all safe.  This is better."

"I almost
lost you both."

"Come to bed
my friend."  Eben said quietly.  "Come and let us remember we
live."

Ladon crawled up
on the bed beside the Morgan until they were both kneeling facing each other. 
He pushed his hands into her hair and kissed her softly.  "Little
Falcon."  He said, running his lips over her cheeks and forehead.  Then he
pulled hard on her hair, capturing her eyes with a new fierceness.  "I
cannot lose you."

"Ladon." 
She whispered.  "I'm right here."  She leaned up and kissed his
chest, running her soft lips over him wherever she could reach, wanting him to
feel nothing but love.  "I'm not going anywhere.  Not without you." 
Then she took a hard nipple into her wet mouth and sucked.  Nipping down with
her teeth while he groaned.  She swirled her tongue around his other nipple,
while her hand palmed his pulsing cock.  Her hair slipped through his fingers
when she moved lower.  Kissing and nipping along his hard ridges and planks. 
She had just slipped the tip of him into her mouth when she felt Eben behind
her, pulling her roughly by the hips, he positioned her on her knees, her legs
spread.

 

 Ladon took a
firmer grip on her hair and used it to pull her back to his cock.  She
swallowed around him taking as much as she could as Eben speared into her from
behind.  She groaned and it had Ladon bucking his hips mindlessly.  With Eben
pushing her and Ladon pulling she had little control and went where they led. 

When Ladon
bellowed out his climax, she swallowed him up.  Eben pistoned harder until he
was pounding a place deep inside that eventually had her coming on a whole body
shudder.  Then Eben poured his pleasure into her with a dragons roar.

They lay entwined
some time later.  Morgan draped over Eben with Ladon spooning her from the
back.  Ebens hand was running up and down her arm as if to assure himself she
was real.  Ladon had his nose buried at her neck where he could breathe her in
with each breath.

There was a thump
against the door that had Morgan jumping.  "What was that?"

"I believe
that is the hatchling discovering the spell I placed on the door."

"When did you
do that?"

"When I heard
him pounding up the stairs."

Ladon chuckled
into her hair.  "I suppose we should go out soon."  He said, not
moving.  "They've been anxious to see you awake."

Rhune thumped
against the door.  "How come they aren't answering?"  His bellow
could be heard through the solid wood. 

But Melly's answer
was barely discernible.  "Come away Rhune.  I said she was awake, not that
she was ready to get up."

"Why won't
she get up?  She's been sleeping for DAYS!"

That had Morgan
blinking up at Eben.  "How long have I been sleeping?"

"Three
days."

"Three
days?"

"Long enough
for Eben to have us all declared the combined House of Fire and Water.  Long
enough that the blood rights have been outlawed by the humans and all magic
forbidden beyond the gates of Dracon.  Long enough that General Solan has
started regular patrols to try to save as many mage as we can beyond our walls."

Morgan was on
information overload for a few minutes as she digested the news, good and bad.

"It's as you
said."  Morgan said sadly, laying her head back down.  "We will
always be in hiding among the humans."

"Yes.”  Eben
said rubbing her arm.  "Human nature has always been such.  They will
always destroy that which they fear."

"Then we have
changed nothing."

"Not
true."  Ladon said.  "The blood rights are finished and dragons are
searching among the humans for their mates.  There is hope for both sides."

The door shook
across the room.  "I can hear you talking!"

It made Morgan
laugh despite everything.  "You are such a brat!"  She called back.

"See Melly. 
She's awake."  They heard and then.  "But I want to show her my
dragon house amulet right now."

"There will
be other battles to fight, Shameaa.  But not today."

"No." 
She said letting herself enjoy that both her mates were with her and her family
safe.  "Today the battles have all been fought and won." 

There was more
pounding. 

"Except for
one."  She amended.  "How do we keep my brother away from our
bedroom?"

"We were
thinking three headed dog."  Ladon said, his usual humor slowly returning.

Morgan sighed. 
"He'd probably just try to ride it."

Eben and Ladon
both started laughing.

"Well, he
would."  She said, not seeing the humor.

"Of that I
have no doubt, Shameaa.  He is too much like his sheet riding sister to do
otherwise."

"One should
never complain about their mate while naked in bed with them Lord
Dragon."  Morgan teased, using Rhunes favorite title for him.

"Complain?" 
He asked.  "Never.  But I believe I still owe you a spanking for more than
one incident of 'courage' these past days."

She sniffed at his
threat, a spark flickering in her eyes.  "Is it your extreme old age that
makes it impossible for you to tell mates and children apart?  Spanking
indeed."  She jumped up so that she was standing over them on the bed.  Hands
to her gloriously nude hips.  "Try it Lord Dragon and we'll both regret
what I freeze off you in your sleep."  Then she jumped down laughing,
sending a whoosh of cold magic back over the dragons on the bed, before she
slammed the door to the bathroom.  They heard the water start a second later.

Eben sighed. 
It's
as if she has no fear of me at all.

That made Ladon
laugh.  They both knew that where Morgan was concerned, his threats where about
as likely as a dragon giving up his treasure.  Then he too was up and headed
for the bath.

Just where are
you going?

To join our
mate in her bath.  You can join us…or you can go deal with Rhune.

It didn't take
6000 years of wisdom to see the smarter choice there.

"I wondered if you would come here." 
The Voice was cold even in the black of the ice cave.  "I wondered if
you would really be so foolish."

"There was nowhere else."  The blood
mage spat out.  His red eyes proclaiming his participation in the blood
rights.  Even in the dark, they glowed with an eerie fire. 
"Your dragons have destroyed everything else."  The cave had
been carved deep into the mountain where no light reached.  It was a place
of old power that had been corrupted by death.  "And the peasants
revolt against their betters because of it."

"So you hide in the dark like a rat?" 
The shadows moved but didn't part.  "Tell me Lotare, what good are
you to me now?"

"I am not finished!"  The mage
hissed.  "I will take back what has been stolen, and you will help
me."

The Dragon laughed.  "What possible reason
would I have?"

"You have your own enemies."  The blood
mage reminded him.

"And your poison didn't work!"

"I can perfect it, and I will.  Then you
will have the means to destroy even the oldest of dragons.  But I want
something in return."

"More dragon blood, perhaps?  Tell me mage
how much did you waste on that imbecile Bochus?  I sent him to you to try
out the poison, not to destroy his mind."

"A means to an end."  He said waving
that away as inconsequential as he paced.  "A girl is beyond the
gates of Dracon.  She belongs to me.  I want her back."

"A girl?"  The voice dropped. 
"Describe her."

"Young, red hair, green eyes.  Small. 
She is wind called.  How many can there be?"

"You'd be surprised."  The dragon said
with open disgust.  "But I have never seen a girl such as you
describe."

"Find her."  Lotare snapped. 
"Give her to me and I will make a poison even your oldest dragon with ten
healers could not survive."

There was movement in the shadows as the dragon left
the way he had come.  His last word echoed eerily through the once sacred
space.  "Done."

 

***

Melly woke with a gasp, the foretelling fading from
her mind even as the last word echoed. 

She shivered; she was always so cold now.  She
left the bed that was no comfort and stepped out onto the balcony.  It
should have made her colder.  The winds blowing around her from so many far
off lands.  Instead, it was a companion.  A friend that laughed
through her red hair and picked up her skirts.  A playmate that made her
smile, even when it felt like unholy eyes looked for her in the darkness. 

Why couldn't she remember the dreams?

She could push the issue.  Talk to Morgan or ask
for a healer, but everyone was finally happy now, and the truth was she didn't
want to know, not really.  Not yet.

Soon, she knew there would be no choice but to face
what was done to her. 

Her eyes looked out into the magic filled lands of the
dragons.  She closed her eyes and let the wind wipe away her fears.

Soon.  It echoed through the winds: There would
be a price to pay, another battle to be fought.  But not yet.

 

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