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The young witch asked softly. She understood loneliness. Since she had returned home, Rianne had learned to understand loneliness very well. Just one year. She had been home a year. Yet she had never been more alone. At first, a few friends from her childhood had come deep into the heart of the forest to see her, but they had seen the stark, unsmiling woman she had become and eventually, they’d left, never to return. Perhaps seeing the silent shadow she now was only reinforced all of the stories they had heard about her.
Capable, aye. Very capable,” Eilrah replied soberly, his eyes flashing with mirth as she turned back, her own eyes filling with tears as the stench robbed her of her breath. “And does their stink please you? ” She was nearly gagging on her own bile as the stench of it filled her head. Eilrah moved closer and his bulk forced her back against a tree, the scent of dragon musk and sulfur filling her head, chasing back the stink of burning Saphicate. “It worsens if they haven’t been dead long, witch,” he murmured.
Not all. All of it would not leave until he gave in to the urge to find himself a female and mate. A thick plume of smoke drifted from his nares and a rumble rose from deep in his chest. Sexual need spread through him—taut, palpable, heavy. He ached, he hungered, something he hadn’t truly experienced until he had bonded with his priestess. Not in any of the forms he wore. Never, never had he realized what would happen when he bonded so deeply with Eiona and Kye all those years ago. Granted, he was a young dragon, and had not taken a priestess bond before.