Neveah sucked in a deep breath, there was no easy way to go about this, she did not think there was any way to go about it that would make her feel less unsettled than she did now.
When she did not know of it’s deeper aning, it was much different than now that she was fully aware of it.
Yet, Neveah knew there were hardly any choices at the mont,
narx gazed at Neveah for a mont, initially, he found her reaction amusing but seeing her furrowed brows as she seriously contemplated it had him worried.
"I am the one granting you my consent, Veah. There need not be any aning attached to it so long as we both have an understanding."
"What is most significant is the bond of trust... dragon riding is considered an act of intimacy, that is because whoever rides a dragon is dearly trusted by the dragon."
"And there is none a dragon can trust more than his rider. But I do trust you...so you need not fret." narx assured,
"Or we can descend the mountain and get so horses, whatever makes you feel at ease." narx offered with a smile.
Neveah clearly was bothered by the thought and narx felt slightly guilty for finding it amusing or even suggesting it in the first place.
anwhile, Neveah’s supposed contemplating gaze was focused on the small droplets of blood dripping from narx’s right arm and not even his words at all.
"You are hurt." Neveah pointed out, she had only just taken notice of it.
narx glanced over at his arm as though he just realized it before he shrugged casually.
"It is just a scratch, it will heal." narx replied without much care to his condition.
Neveah’s brows furrowed, she had not seen narx battle but she was certain he was highly skilled, she just did not see him getting hurt in a fight.
Neveah also recalled the man in black had clearly said he did not underestimate narx, which ant whatever narx had battled before coming to her was beyond just a kobold.
Just one kobold was not nearly strong enough to harm narx, narx had said it himself and that was the only reason Neveah left him by himself in the first place,
Although now that Neveah thought of it, she realized that was narx’s intention in the first place.
"Is that why you had leave? Because you knew there was sothing other than the kobold lurking close by?" Neveah asked with narrowed eyes.
narx did not respond, but the slight twitch of his eyes gave him away.
"When you ca to , the creature...was hunting you down?" Neveah guessed.
narx had arrived so stealthily and had sent her away just as quickly, while saying she would be a distraction.
"It ca for ... they all did. It blocked my path on my way back to you. I could not be at ease to battle it without knowing your condition... so I created a diversion..." narx explained.
"With your blood." Neveah completed and narx nodded.
"It was the only way to distract it long enough to find you, I am relieved I arrived in ti before the kobold sensed you." narx replied with a shrug.
Sohow, the conversation had moved right back to Neveah’s safety and Neveah could not understand why narx had the luxury to be concerned for her safety and had hurt himself in the process.
"You should learn to focus on your own battles. How have you lived this long being so ddleso? I can handle myself just fine." Neveah huffed out in annoyance.
"Veah, it is just a scratch...rest easy." narx replied with a small smile settled on his lips.
"How do you translate a reprimand to words of concern?" Neveah asked in disbelief.
"Are they not? They sounded like concern to ." narx replied with a smug look.
"The loss of blood must have affected your hearing." Neveah decided.
narx laughed quietly, his eyes gleaming with amusent.
"Co on, we should head down the mountain now. We have no ti to spare." narx replied with a shake of his head.
"That will take too long." Neveah refused,
Though she was reluctant at the thought of flight, it was only because of what she had heard from Davina,
But as narx had said, it was not an act of intimacy if she did not consider it to be... what actually mattered was if she was willing to accept narx’s trust in her.
As much as it baffled her, Neveah did not doubt in the slightest that narx did trust her, he had already proven that much.
narx’s eagerness to save her and his determination to protect Neveah’s life was a regard Neveah was not certain how she had beco deserving of.
"Getting back in ti is of greater urgency." Neveah decided, shaking off her hesitation.
narx nodded as his form changed right before Neveah’s eyes, muscles enlarging and expanding till the massive red dragon stood before her.
"To shift like this...does it not hurt?" Neveah asked before she realized it.
narx’s red orbs settled on her before he grunted beneath his breath, shaking his massive head slightly.
"Well... it is a form you have had all your life, for centuries...it would co natural by now." Neveah murmured thoughtfully.
Neveah sucked in a deep breath before she strode over to narx, stopping at his side where she began considering her options.
narx was not as large as Xenon, so far, Xenon was the largest dragon Neveah had seen.
However, that did not an narx’s dragon form was small, far from it. narx was at least thrice Neveah’s size in wolf form and Neveah’s wolf form was huge.
Admitting to it left a bitter taste on Neveah’s tongue, but compared to the dragons, Neveah’s size could be tagged as insignificant.
Neveah had ridden Xenon a few tis before, however even then, she was not certain what the right way was to mount a dragon without a saddle.
Riding a horse without a saddle was no trouble, but a dragon was much different. Every part of their form glead like gem, Neveah did not even know where exactly was appropriate to hold.
After riding Xenon a few tis, Neveah had created her own path...but narx was not Xenon, his built was different, a deadly, untouchable beauty of it’s own.
His red scales truly did look akin to rubies, Neveah guessed they could even be far more precious than the actual gem itself.
"Your wound, does it not reflect in your dragon form?" Neveah asked curiously.
narx grunted again and moved his wing slightly to reveal his upper arm where there was a small graze that bled slightly.
Neveah lifted a hand to a spike extended from narx’s wing, holding unto it, she placed a foot on his arm and slowly climbed her way up to his back, careful not to hurt him.
"I am not so fragile you know...my scales will not rip off and I can barely feel your weight." A deep, rumbling voice sounded in Neveah’s head.
Neveah was nearly sent tumbling back down to the ground as she yelped in shock.
"How are you in my head?!" Neveah exclaid.
"Because we are in contact." narx replied in Neveah’s head.
"There was such an amazing ability?!" Neveah asked in surprise.
"Xenon cannot communicate with his mind, not to anyone but our Liege...it is an ability he lost along with his speech when his wild haze first began." narx thought to Neveah, understanding her question.
narx’s voice in Neveah’s head was slightly different than his actual voice, it sounded more animalistic and guttural but was still clear and concise.
Neveah guessed this was narx’s voice in dragon form, influenced by his predatory attributes when in dragon form.
However this mont brought a mory back to Neveah’s mind, one she had completely forgotten before this mont.
The mory of a voice in her head, up until this mont, Neveah was not certain if she had just imagined it.
"This is only possible when I am in contact with the dragon?" Neveah asked to be certain.
The intricacies surrounding the dragons were much too complicated, Neveah did not think she would ever understand their ways completely.
"Yes, otherwise you would have heard in your head before this mont." narx replied.
Neveah furrowed her brows slightly before she shrugged and continued up the rest of the way, settling herself on narx’s back.
"Hold tight." narx’s voice said in Neveah’s mind.
"Don’t I know it?" Neveah replied, heaving a deep sigh as she readied herself for a trip she most certainly was not built for.
In a leap, narx’s wings stretched wide, his large wingspan creating a dark shadow over the forest as a single flap of his wing had them airborne.
They soared right over the forest and narx ascended to a higher altitude with each passing mont till they flew just below the clouds.
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