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they
channeled the power of the brethren to their Dark Lord who harnessed it and
opened the gate he’d once sealed.
    A
hint of smoke carried on the air, while above the head of the golden male
dragon a swirling gray cloud appeared. Without glancing at his parents standing
behind him, Talon spread his wings and in one great sweep of air, flew through
the cloud. Blood red tears fell from Draakar’s eyes as he watched the gray
cloud fold in on itself and disappear. He looked down to see the red drops
solidify into two rubies laying on the pebbled tiles, and his mate Sierran in a
crumpled heap at his feet. Bending down, he gently lifted her within his great
forearms. When he saw Valour step forward to help, Draakar shook his head,
stopping him in his tracks.
    “Do
not fret, mate mine,” she said. “I am not dead yet. I just need to rest.”
    Without
saying a word, Draakar leaped into the air and flew to one of the more
comfortable regions of the realm. Finally arriving at his destination, he set
down with his mate beside a waterfall surrounded by pink crystal rocks. He
carried her beneath the fall, and allowed the healing water to bathe her.
Sierran’s scales slowly lost their dull sheen and glowed golden again. After
awhile, she stood on her own. They both knew she would not live to see many
more risings.
    “For
the last time, beloved.” Sierran changed to her human form. Golden scales
shimmered and blurred until a perfectly shaped naked human woman form appeared.
    Draakar
watched her change and changed, too. Where once stood a dark dragon, there now
stood a pale-skinned man. He gathered his wife to him; her ankle-length golden
tresses draped over his arms as he kissed her. A kiss of peace.  
    “I
release you,” Sierran said. “Your truemate is also one of the forgotten ones,
the ones left behind. I know you have to go, too.”
    “I
made my choice long ago,” Draakar stated. “I cannot leave you.” The words ‘not
yet’ lingered between them.
    “You
don’t. It is I who leave you. I am sorry I was not the one. She is out there,
and you must find her. Go to her and watch over our son.”
    “I
love you.”
    “Then
you must do this for me, for the brethren and for yourself. You have suffered
enough. You have never come into your true strength. With it, we would not be
in this predicament. I love you, and I know you have a place in your heart for
me. Now take me to the air, Draakar, let me feel the wind on my face.”

Chapter Two

 
    “ W hat was
that? Did you see that?”
          “See what?” his
wife asked from her aisle seat on the plane. She craned her neck to look past
her husband, sitting by the window. “A bunch of clouds?”
          “I’m not sure.
It looked like something…something big, just blocked out the sun.”
          “Well, I don’t
see anything. Probably just a bird.”
          “Not this high
up, and it was bigger than any bird I’ve ever seen.”
          The passenger in
the window seat in section 14A, on flight forty-seven, bound for the United
States from Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom, hit the call button for a
flight attendant. When she got there he didn’t know quite what to say to her.
‘I think I just saw a UFO,’ didn’t sound right. So instead, he just asked for a
straight gin and pulled the window shade down over his window. It was going to
be a long flight.

    Maya
paused on the narrow trail to glance up at the clear blue sky and breathe in
the crisp tang of the cool mountain air. She didn’t know why earlier in the day
she had pulled up her itinerary on her laptop and changed her flight
arrangements—yet again. Instead of leaving Ireland this afternoon, as she
had originally planned, she rebooked to leave tomorrow night. What possessed
her to make those changes and to spend the rest of the day hiking the Sperrin
Mountains again, she hadn’t a clue. Something drove her to get a look at those
stones one more time. She hovered on the