A Savior of Flames

Chapter 19

"What the hell?" Cael shoots up in bed behind me as I continue screaming. "Oh, Rowan's naked. Good morning, Dragon." The door slams open during my second round of screaming and Abraxis and Rohanna are looking scared from the screaming, but then seeing Rowan pull the blanket around his waist, they both relax.

    "See, I knew she was going to lose her mind when she saw them." I just look back and forth between Abraxis and Rowan, and I let out another scream. Cael flinches, being right next to me and slaps a hand over my mouth.

    "Rista, you're killing me." I let out a muffled scream through his hand. Naked, he was naked. I saw his marks. Oh Gods, I saw everything else too.

    "Rowan, I think you broke my sister." No, the thing that will break me is hiding underneath that blanket wrapped around Rowan's waist. Rowan sputters and clutches his stomach, doubling over in laughter.

    "Princess you did not just say that." I look down in horror. When did Cael move his hand away from my mouth? Everyone is looking at me with an expression of horrified amusement. I can't believe what came out of my mouth. I back away from Rowan a bit more, vaguely aware that I'm just backing into Cael's lap. He groans a bit, and I just hold down another scream from erupting. What the hell do I do?

    "Uh, Abraxis, Erista looks like she's going to start sparking here in a minute. As far as I know Cael's not immune to those." Rohanna sounds legitimately concerned.

    "Well our other concern is that Cael just moved his tally up to five. He's gaining on Erista." I look at Cael in horror. Seriously, aroused right now?

    "Sparks Abraxis! Focus." I just panic and summon my gold particles.

    "Shit!" Rowan and Abraxis reach for me at the same time as I teleport from the room. I land on my butt on the roof of a building across town and I curse as sparks do in fact appear on my fingers. Now is not the time for lightning, and my teleporting is not nearly reliable enough for me to get to a place where no one can be affected. Alone now though, I manage to calm myself down enough to shake them off and calm down my breathing.

    What the hell just happened? Thankfully I'm on one of the tallest buildings and no one is going to see me, only being clad in just a long shirt of Abraxis's and a pair of undershorts. Was that supposed to be my birthday present? How exactly was Rowan expecting me to react to that? I nearly scream again when Rhiannon's hand lands on my shoulder, but contain it when I see that it's just her. She kneels next to me.

    "Erista, what are you doing on a roof half naked? And this early?" I clutch at my chest, my heart beating wildly.

    "What are you doing on the roof?"

    "I run the midnight watch, which ends when everyone else wakes up and Clarissa usually replaces me." That would explain why I rarely ever see Clarissa during the day. "Are you going to answer my question? How did you even get up here dressed like that?"

    "I teleported from my room." I see her fighting back surprise.

    "We're halfway across town."

"I was just aiming for anywhere but in my room."

"Are you going to tell me what happened?" My entire body flushes red, and she immediately takes notice. "That bad?"

"Rowan woke me up by standing naked in our room with his Warrior marks on display." Rhia fails to hold back her laugh. I scowl, and she stops.

"Fine, go on, you weren't finished."

"I screamed, woke up Cael, Abraxis and Rohanna nearly broke down the door. I made a comment about something of Rowan's breaking me, and then when Cael got aroused after I sat in his lap I freaked out and teleported away." Rhia lets out an obnoxious snort and then falls over to her back crying with laughter.