Nadine

155. Kraken

"Now who wants to go to the boat? If you don't want to go to the boat you can take the day off. But no watching the rock. We are going to be putting in the orders to fix it so we leave to find the ship."

"I want to go to the boat." I put my hand up.

Tre, Tye, Marcus, Kane, Coral, Thora, and Dipak. A lot of us going to the boat.

"Ok Coral you are a dragon correct?"

"Yes sir."

"Thora you can just pick one of the men to fly on. Stay off the girls it's a long way."

"Nadine can fly me. She only crash lands if she's drunk."

"It's a long way. Just pick one of us."

I touch her arm. "We should drink on the boat."

"Is there wine there?"

Coral leans in and whispers. "What are we doing?"

"We're going to drink on the boat."

"WHAT ARE YOU 3 WHISPERING ABOUT?"

We all sit up straight. "NOTHING."

Marcus sits back laughing and starts rubbing his eyes.

Dipak looks at him. "What are they planning?"

Thora looks at Marcus and whispers. "If you tell on us. We will make you sit on the boring side of the table."

Marcus looks at Dipak and shrugs his shoulders.

Thora looks at Dipak. "This is our side of the table."

"It's all 1 table."

"Well our side is better anyways." Thora slams herself back in the chair and crosses her arms.

"Fine, I'll figure it out later. Meet on the roof in 10 minutes."

I run down to my apartment and grab my compass necklace.

I run into Elek and Elijah on my way back up. I smile at them. Elijah smiles and just keeps going. Elek turns around and walks with me.

"How is your brother doing?"

"He's good. Were you going to question him?"

"Yes, but that can wait. He should go home and recover a bit before we try that. It would just cause stress if we tried now."

"Oh I thought you would before he left."

"No sir, he's really not a hostage. We'll just contact your castle in the future. Probably when the doctor says he's more stable mentally. It's very hard coming out of a situation like he was in. I know that."

He smiles at me. "Can we talk for a little bit?"

"I'm actually leaving in 2 minutes. We need to put in the orders to fix one of our ships. A few of us are going to sort it all out. I'll be back later tonight or tomorrow. One or the other."

"Who are you going with?"

I put my eyebrows up at him.

"Sorry, I can't ask that."

"COME ON. LEAVE THE SEXY MAN ALONE AND LET'S GO. WE'RE GOING TO BE LATE TO THE BOAT." Thora grabs me and starts pulling.

"THAT'S NOT A SEXY MAN. HE'S MY NEPHEW."

"YOU HAVE A SEXY NEPHEW. LET'S GO."

"NOT UNTIL YOU SAY HE'S NOT SEXY."

Thora stops pulling me and looks back at Coral with her arms crossed by Elek.