Stained in red

Key To The Heart

It had been six long minutes, Kassa Carriba hugged the Yellow Blood Warrior thinking about everything that had just happened. Elise, the white blood, was on a mission. Her younger sister had taught her how to read souls, she had read Kassa's and found out something that would change things dramatically.

Elise came running into the cave with her dragon, the demon. I heard her heavy breaths behind me.
"You, come." She slipped out between pants of breath, she strolled up to me and grabbed my shoulder, pulling me from Sarkon. I protested but as soon as I glimpsed the White Blood's face I changed my mind, Sarkon who had unfrozen followed us. Sembi who had reluctantly stayed outside like I'd told him too, scooped me onto his back. Let me protect you. He said, worry filling his eyes. I'm sorry, you had to stay outside I couldn't live with myself if something happened. Plus you would have come in if I was going to die, I saw the look in your eyes. Never. Don't sound so severe. I told him, he snorted swishing his head. I laughed.
"Come." Elise repeated. Sembi quickened, the shallow rumbling of his hooves getting louder.

Elise stopped abruptly in the middle of a lake that had frozen over. Sembi had waited on the edge along with Sarkon who seemed unusually quiet, his face was blank...calculating.

Elise turned to me, her eyes had tinges of excitement, pondering and something deeper. "Look up." I did as instructed. Sky. hazy, blue sky. That was all to be seen. "Look harder." I did. Squinting my eyes I watched the clouds dance past me- wait. I looked at the clouds again. All of them seemed to be normal, but one. Yes. I was sure my suspicion was correct. Definitely. I looked at Elise then back to the sky. "Do you see?" She asked her voice quivering in anticipation.
"Yes." I whispered. The cloud flickered like a candle. Then a wing flapped, a tail swished and an eye blinked. It floated down towards me, taking its time. Observing us-me. Her crepuscular eyes shone, peering into me. Her pearly scales reflected the light, as she danced like the clouds in the sky, all the while creeping closer.

I barely felt as Elise left my side and walked of the lake. "Yes." I repeated into the air, though no one heard.

The White, glamorous dragon was almost touching me as she placed one perfect claw on the lake, the rest of her still hovering. She blinked twice at me. Her tail flicked as she lifted her snout closer and closer to my chest. She brushed it against me, and didn't flinch as I stroked her forehead. Her scales felt so sharp, and so delicate they made me tremble. Finally, she rested a claw above my heart. But I was not scared. Not as she painted a symbol over me, not as she pricked my skin at the end. My red blood touched her white scales and it shone.

Something deep inside of me unlocked itself. The dead weight on my bones, that I had never noticed before, lifted. It swam inside me, it's warmth spreading over me. It had been locked up for many years, and now it was free.