Elion Silthral of SnowReign

13. Fire-breather

The elf prince's brooding gaze remained fixated upon his female prisoner as they both rode Gerard in complete silence, feeling the tiny tremors her body still gave away here and there as she sat pressed against his front.

He closely observed her, noticing how her forest green eyes kept following around the blue little creature as it flew back and forth, always close to his mount.

"That is a dwarf fae. More commonly known as a pixie," His gravely voice abruptly startled her, drawing her attention as well.

Her widened gaze held his as silence befell upon them once again, the prince secretly wondering what were her current thoughts as he could observe the way her inquisitive eyes trailed all over his features, her arched brows mildly furrowing from time to time as if she would try and discover his own secrets.

Yet such an unexpected surprise she gave to him the moment she suddenly reached to touch one of those odd-looking ears of his for the second time, lightly tracing her index finger over that pointed peak where the two cartilages met.

"Are you inviting me to bed you, little creature?" He curiously asked, mirth lacing his tone as he surely knew that this bizarre female before him must've definitely had no prior knowledge regarding his kind's mating rituals. Hence the poorly thought act.

She immediately let out a rather audible gasp, her cheeks flooding with a richly-colored red as she immediately turned her back to him.

What an insolent...being!

She huffed.

Where did he even get the idea that she would invite him to commit such acts with her? It was preposterous!

The audacity of this male!

She'd only wanted to see if they were truly real!

Crossing her arms over her chest as she kept pouting in annoyance, her eyelids fluttered as she casually noticed how a shadow briefly fell over them, disappearing just as quick as it appeared.

Her brows furrowed, raising her gaze only to notice the same shadow casting over them yet again before disappearing altogether.

What's...

Her gaze shifted to Elion, curiously staring up at his rather annoyed expression.

Yet before she could even open her mouth to ask what was that all about a heavy thud coming from somewhere close rendered her frozen, eyes wide as she hesitated to turn around and look.

Only the moment she did, a short and high-pitched scream erupted from within her throat at the sight of what stood only a few feet away from them.

Holy skies!

There was an enormous and scaly beast staring right back at them with a pair of large amber eyes while its bat-like but much larger wings slowly retracted to its back.

Smoke expelled from his big snout in a heavy huff, the beast lightly shaking its whole impressively golden and scaly skin. And only after a moment, its whole dragon-looking body magically disappeared into a dense mist of dark grey smoke, swiftly replaced by a completely human-looking male.

She almost fell off the horse as she widely stared in disbelief at the male now taking a step closer towards them.

He had sandy blonde tousled hair and eyes like amber, his skin tone of a soft creamy tan and his whole body caked-up with muscles, the girl only now noticing that he was actually...completely naked.

"Oh! Oh my..." Red colored Chloe's cheeks as she fastly turned away, facing the elf prince's white tunic.

"Raen," She heard the elf say in acknowledgement, shortly followed by the other...male's rather grungy voice,