Page 83 of The Divide that Binds Us

“Come, honey, Mildred has been waiting for you.”The crazed stare in Roon’s eyes only proves Fae’s point further in needing to stop the madness.She tries to kick with her spare leg and crawl away, but Roon’s tattooed hand has a firm grip as he pulls her closer until Fae wraps her fingers around the grates of the walkway.

“Let go,” Roon growls.He looks back at a Guard.“Grab her hands!”

“No!”Fae screams.

A dragon crashes through the window, spraying glass everywhere and cutting Fae’s exposed skin.

The golden wingless dragon from earlier.

The commotion only halts Roon for a second as he continues his advancement toward Fae.She gets up and rushes to a window, contemplating if she’d even survive jumping several stories out of a building.But her chance to ponder it is cut short.

The dragon blasts through the Guards wrapping ropes around them and forcefully bumps into Fae, pushing her right out the window.

No, no, no!

The last thing she sees is the dragon being muzzled and pulled from the window as Roon looks out with blood dripping from his face.Her senses snap shut upon impact that darkens the world around her.

Fae wakes up driftingin the sky.She gasps and sits up, searching her surroundings.The spiky scales she lies on brings her back to Gigi until she looks down and realizes...

She’s riding on her back!

“Gigi?!”Fae screams.

“Hush, Fee.Gigi is concentrating.”

“On what?”Fae looks up to discover another small dragon in front of Gigi leading the way.She’d recognize those sparkling silver scales and butterfly wings anywhere.

Poppy.

“Did you both follow me to Sapphire?”she asks.“Wh-where are we going?”

Gigi groans and ignores Fae.

“Garnet.A lot of our friends went to Wave Riding Season.If something is happening, I want to be there and be...brave,”Poppy says.

“I...I don’t understand.Why follow me to Sapphire?”Fae asks.

“Maybe because we care about the only human who can actually understand us,”Gigi says.“It was actually thanks to that dragon who pushed you we were able to grab you.”

The white bearded dragon.They must’ve been caught by the Guards.

Fae shudders, itching to go back to Sapphire.But the operation is beyond what she can do alone.Garnet is the best option and the most dangerous.She’s going right to Mildred, but if she can find Alice and help warn the dragons at Wave Riding Season, then maybe it’ll slow Mildred down.

“We should go to Elite,” Fae suggests.“Poppy, do you remember where it is?You can drop me off there.”

“Actually, I don’t.It took me days to find that building, but I think it’s closest to the station heading to Topaz if that helps.”

Fae readily grips Gigi’s shoulders.“Drop me off there!”

“Okay, so flying down in the middle of a crowd at a train station on a dragon while also being actively hunted by someone who resides there sounds like an awful idea, Fee,”Gigi mutters.

She has a point.Shockingly.

Fae bites her lip, eyes narrowing through the wind.She tries to focus on only Poppy and Gigi because if she sees the vast ocean beneath them, she might holler her vocal cords away until she loses her voice.

She’s desperate for help though.The warehouse is a bigger undertaking than she ever imagined and Mildred clearly has been busy.Where has Alice been?

“Let’s...find a forest nearby Central Square.That’s where Wave Riding Season will be.”

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