Page 6 of Dragon Mine (Dragon Kings 2)
Brandr moved to stand beside her. “I remember a time when you felt as I did.”
“I matured.”
He turned his head to her. “Something changed you.”
“Change is constant. We all change every day.” She looked at him, their gazes clashing. He had the same black eyes as their father and the same midnight hair as Rhi. Brandr wore his straight hair to his shoulders and pulled back in a queue. The smile that had always come so easily to him was gone. “For instance, you’ve become more bitter.”
“Because my sister no longer thinks as I do.”
“We’re twins, Brandr. That doesn’t mean we share a brain.”
He narrowed his black eyes at her. “You never used to keep secrets from me.”
“Everyone keeps secrets of some kind.”
“Inviting Con and Rhi to Zora is a mistake, Eurwen. Mark my words,” he replied and turned on his heel to walk away.
She looked down into the valley below, where the doorway she’d created stood. There was still no sign of her parents. Eurwen heard the beat of wings and looked up to see a flock of yellow dragons pass overhead. They roared in response to seeing her. She smiled and waved, but the grin dimmed when she thought about the Dragon Kings on Earth, having to live without their dragons. She couldn’t imagine a day without them, much less eons of time.
As much as she’d like to discount her brother’s words, she knew he had a point. If the Dragon Kings came to Zora, it could disrupt everything. They were Kings for a reason. The magic had chosen them as the strongest of their clan to lead. That wasn’t how things worked on Zora, and the Kings might try to take advantage of that.
She and Brandr were powerful, but could they stand against all the Kings? The answer was no, and she was sure that’s what Brandr worried about. To him, the Kings had lost their right to rule the dragons when they sent them away.
It was a discussion she and Brandr had had numerous times. While it was a real possibility that inviting Con and Rhi could result in a war, Eurwen didn’t have a choice. Just as she and Brandr hadn’t had an option for coming to Zora to lead the dragons, she’d had to form the doorway to Dreagan.
If that meant the end of her idyllic life, then so be it. Change was inevitable. Nothing stayed the same, and to try and force it put everything out of balance. Whatever force pushed her, she would listen. Come what may.
She walked to the edge of the cliff and stepped off, shifting into her dragon form and opening her wings to glide upon the wind.
