Page 58 of Gift from the Wing

Her nonchalance at this makes me growl, and her laugh in my mind doesn’t help. Damn know-it-all dragon.

“Will you please explain this to us? This is confusing.”

“I suppose so, although you all should learn some patience.”

Keeper snorts, letting me know he heard it, but I don’t find the humor right now. Maybe after she explains.

“As a dragon, you’ve always had an ability to push out what you absorb. For typical dragons, it’s knowledge. But you are the first of your kind and you feed off magic, therefore you push out magic.”

“I’ve never done this before. How does this even work? Layman’s terms, please,”I ask and Willow squeezes my hand in solidarity.

“Well, my lord is a being that survives off lifeforces. Yes, the main consumption is blood because it is the most potent, but there are many forms of lifeforces. Your magic is one of your lifeforces. So you pushed it out, and he consumed it because it was a source of food. It is something his body would’ve naturally done, just as it was natural for your body to push it out.”

“Tanith, will he be able to push his magic onto anyone else or just Keeper?”Willow asks.

“Anyone.”

“Thank you,”Willow says before turning her attention to me.

“You’ve been doing this. The only reason it wasn’t so obvious was because you were doing it on me and I also have and rely on mymagic. Keeper noticed it so starkly because he doesn’t have Elementra-blessed gifts.”

“What do you mean, little wanderer?”

“Think about all the times I needed to be healed and how quickly that happened. How quickly my magic refilled itself. Every time, you were right there with me. Probably touching me. Of course having all of you guys touch me helps, but it’s been expedited because you’ve been feeding it directly to me.”

“I’ll be damned, dragon. You’ve been doing it to all of us,” Caspian says with a smirk and a shake of his head. “It’s different than what healers like Jamie do. They fix the damage done to the body, and our magic does the rest. You’ve been filling our magic reserves, which, in turn, speeds everything else up.”

Well, fuck me.

“So I can push my magic into each of you? I can keep you all from ever being drained?”

“Yes,” they all echo.

I stand there statue-still for a second as that shocks me down to my core. This is amazing. An ability that’s going to protect them, keep them from ever getting dangerously low and not being able to take care of themselves.

Holy shit, I can power them.

“This is so fucking cool,” I holler, picking Willow up and crashing her into the center of my brothers. “I’ve been inside all of you.”

“Draken.” my brothers shout and my little wanderer throws her head back, laughing.

I’m gonna feed them magic until it’s coming out of their asses.

Eight

Willow

My love for training hasn’t grown a bit.

Although I’m thankful for it and it’s definitely given me more confidence in myself, I still hate working up the sweat.

I have no clue what Aurora has in store for us this morning and she gave us no hints at breakfast what to expect, but after yesterday’s revelation about Draken’s ability, she grew even more excited and couldn’t wait to get us together.

After that startling, amazing discovery, Tanith mentally walked Draken through on how to purposefully feed us his magic. Up until now, his emotions in the moments were leading the way, which makes sense. Every time I was hurt, he and his dragon were worked up. The same with the guys. He goes into his natural protective mode, and it just leaks out.

Once she gave him instructions on what to do, he mastered it quickly. He had us so full of magic, my eyes were glowing for hours, Corentin looked as though he had a spotlight on him everywhere he went, Tillman had a headache from basically hearing every thought in the healing wing, and Caspian was a walking cloud of smoke.

We had to stand barefoot in the garden and force it out.

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