Oh, empty my heart
She didn't want to watch this. She couldn't look away. Mounting tension had Seren shaking where she stood, cradling Lily in arms that felt numb from fear. There was so much wrong with this picture. The murderous rage in Umbra's mind was wrong, not at all like the sweet, patient creature she had come to know him as.
With heart beating like a drum in the chest she watched how Sah ducked and rolled. Drew his sword, and -
PAIN!
It ate through the dragon, and the girl bent double, gasping for air as the sensation traveled through the bond and flared into her own mind. Sah's voice was a soft snarl, close enough to have been growled into her own ear - but it was the dragon who was pushed to the ground, the dragon who screamed, the dragon's claws that tore at the ground.
The threat meant very little to Umbra. The sword meant little. Even the deep wound in his own wing meant nothing. It was the sight of the girl, kneeling on the ground with tears streaming down her face that made him grow limp.
A low, keening whine started up in the depths of his blue chest... and with a quiet thump Umbra let his head fall to the grass. The eyes that stared up at Sah were wild, full of bewildered disbelief - he had lost? He had lost, to a two-legged little ground walker of a bond-stealer.
What could be more humiliating?
With heart beating like a drum in the chest she watched how Sah ducked and rolled. Drew his sword, and -
PAIN!
It ate through the dragon, and the girl bent double, gasping for air as the sensation traveled through the bond and flared into her own mind. Sah's voice was a soft snarl, close enough to have been growled into her own ear - but it was the dragon who was pushed to the ground, the dragon who screamed, the dragon's claws that tore at the ground.
The threat meant very little to Umbra. The sword meant little. Even the deep wound in his own wing meant nothing. It was the sight of the girl, kneeling on the ground with tears streaming down her face that made him grow limp.
A low, keening whine started up in the depths of his blue chest... and with a quiet thump Umbra let his head fall to the grass. The eyes that stared up at Sah were wild, full of bewildered disbelief - he had lost? He had lost, to a two-legged little ground walker of a bond-stealer.
What could be more humiliating?
I've got to make room for this feeling
SEREN
