Page 63 of Cruel Daddy Dragon

He walks over and shoos Kaius away. Kaius reluctantly steps aside, and Lena moves from her spot on the couch and gestures to it. Kaius sits next to Julie as Milo clicks on his small flashlight and shines it in her eyes, asking his basic medical questions.

I walk up to Sarah.

“Are you okay?” I ask her.

Sarah just looks at me for a moment, then utters an incredulous laugh.

“AmIokay?” she asks.

“Yeah. That must have been scary to see Julie like that,” I say.

Sarah’s green eyes soften a little.

“I guess… but you do what you can when something happens, right?”

“But you’re good, right?”

“Yeah.” She smiles at me, “Thanks for worrying.”

Her soft smile prompts a smile of my own. Movement attracts my attention, and I see Milo stand up.

“I’m satisfied,” he says, “I think it was a false alarm—not a seizure or anything.”

“No, it was just a vision,” Julie insists, “I’d just never had one thatrealbefore. Sorry, I scared everyone.”

Julie gives an embarrassed laugh. Then, she opens her hand and reveals the copper ring.

“I was researching this ring, trying to see if the museum had any records on it today,” Julie explains, “I couldn’t find anything in our human records, so I think it is a relic. I could feel a vision coming about it, but the vision never really happened though, so I kept it on me. But then I brought it out of my pocket, and I put my hand on Sarah’s shoulder and… well, I guess the two together is what unlocked the vision.”

“What was the vision about, babe?” Kaius asks.

She smiles lightly and then turns to Sarah. She holds the ring out to her:

“This is yours,” Julie says, “That’s the main thing the vision told me.”

“What?” Sarah asks, “But I’d never seen this ring before I found it in the cave the other day. How is this ring mine?”

“I saw into the past,” Julie says, “and I saw a woman who looks so much like you, Sarah. I think it was an ancestor of yours, and she was using this ring to do… something. I think she was a witch.”

“Awitch?!” Sarah asks.

Julie nods. She scans among the rest of us as she continues:

“But there’s more. I didn’t just see Sarah’s ancestor magically using the ring,” she says, “There was a dragon at her side.”

I stiffen. I look at Sarah, and she stares at me back. Then I look at Kaius and Milo, and they’re both aghast as well. Orion steps forward, his gaze intense.

“So, hang on,” he says intensely, “you’re saying our ancestors worked together?”

“That’s what I saw,” Julie replies.

“But that…” Orion says, “That’s just… we’ve never been in Greyson Ridge. We have no record ofeverbeing in Greyson Ridge! That doesn’t make any sense.”

“I don’t know…” Lena pipes up suddenly, and everyone’s looking at her, “Gram’s notes included a letter saying that her notes are theonlyrecords of what happened. I haven’t finished going through everything she noted down yet, and I was focusing on the keys, but one thing that was obvious was thatsomethinghappened in the past which was so large and dangerous that it was locked up with all these magical keys, and everyone agreedto forget about it for the safety of everyone else. If you dragons had no records of it, I wouldn’t be too surprised, to be honest.”

There’s a ringing silence after that bombshell.

“Do you think your Gram would have written what this thing is?” Orion asks.

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