Page 71 of Cruel Daddy Dragon

“What’s going on?” Milo asks, walking to my side.

“Not sure… I think she’s having a vision, too,” I reply.

“Not surprising,” Orion grunts from across the cave, “This place isheavyin magic. I can’t sense any relics or keys here right now, but there’s no doubt they used to be here. I’m sure this level of magic will set off all sorts of latent powers.”

“So, there are no relics,” Kaius says, “but it still seems pretty useful to have a place where we can go thatsparksvisions.”

“And these spells will probably be useful once we can figure them out,” Lena says.

There’s a murmur of agreement, and then Sarah jerks next to me. When I look back, she’s looking around, a subtle look of alarm and concern on her face.

“Hey,” I purr, “welcome back.”

She looks up at me, that same intense frown on her face.

“Hey,” she replies in a monotone voice.

“Hey, Sarah,” Milo asks, “How are you feeling?”

“Fine. Just… it’s a little weird,” she replies.

“I imagine it is,” Milo agrees, “What was the vision about?”

Sarah opens her mouth, and then her eyes suddenly dart up to Lena. Then she looks back at me and Milo.

“Just Merl getting into trouble again,” she says, “I’m probably going to have to go back onto the surface soon.”

“Yeah,” Orion says, “If everyone’s done here, we should be going. We’re pretty exposed out here, and there’s no relics here anyway.”

“I’ve done about as much as I can do,” Lena says, “I’ll have to come back with more journals from Grams to figure the spell out, though.”

“I’m in a similar position,” Julie admits, “I’m going to need to figure out what these engravings mean with my other books. Just let me take a few photographs, and I’ll be ready to go.”

“All right,” Orion answers, “Make it quick.”

Julie pulls out her phone and starts taking pictures of the engraving, and Lena starts doing the same across the cave. As they do that, Sarah grabs my arm. She beckons to me, and I lean down to her.

“We have a serious problem!” she hisses to me.

“What?!” I whisper back.

“Not here,” she says, “Not around Lena and Julie. I need to talk to all you dragons alone.”

Chapter 23 - Sarah

Luckily, as soon as we walk into the house, both Julie and Lena are still excitedly talking about their future research:

“This is just incredible!” Julie exclaims, “Oh, it’sso sadwe have to keep this a secret because this is just the most amazing discovery about Greyson Ridge that’s ever been made, I think! Who would have guessed we’d have this mind-blowing history?! Oh, if only I could put these pictures in our museum!”

“I know!” Lena laughs, “I think Gram’s notes would belong in the museum as well. Shame.”

Kaius laughs.

“Maybe we can set up a private museum?” he suggests jokingly, “A magic museum? We could put it at the back of Lena’s shop since it has that spooky, occult theme to it anyway!”

“I don’t know,” Lena laughs, “I think if people not in on this dragon stuff found it, they’d think I’d be running a creepy cult out the back of my shop or something. You know how the bridge ladies are! They’d probably assume it’s a sex cult, considering how many of us are getting together with the new guys.”

All three laugh. Then, Kaius looks at me:

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