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  1. “That makes an awful lot of sense indeed.” The sun had already begun to set by now, I slowly get up and wander to the entrance of the cave to watch the sky slowly turn redder and redder and to wait for Skaftá to return.
  2. As I sit there gazing off into the distance I can feel Scáthán walk up from behind me and then lie down next to me.
  3. We both you look off into the distance our minds wandering, yet I can still always feel his presence even when I’m looking in the opposite direction.
  4. Eventually I feel Scátháns mind nudge mine, as I look over to him he nods his head in the direction of some point in the sky.
  5. I pinch my eyes and try to see what he wants me to see, at first I see nothing but a shade dark blue then I notice an off-colour spot that appears to be moving towards us slowly.
  6. “Skaftá is back?” I say out loud. An affirmative “Mhm.” rolls through my mind.
  7. Watching the spot slowly grow bigger and more defined in shape I don’t even notice that Scáthán she’s just gliding along as she approaches the cave. While she flies towards the cave I realize just how enormous her wingspan is, I had already figured it must be huge but now that I can see her glide through the air with her wings spread to their full size it becomes obvious, they must be rivalling even the biggest aircrafts humans have ever built, at least.
  8. Instinctively I step aside to make way for her as she gets very close to the cave entrance, Skaftá spreads her wings and angles them slightly upwards to slow down and then swiftly lands on the small plateau in front of me, a quite crunch accompanies her as her feet make contact with the ground again.
  9. Watching her fold her wings together and tuck them neatly to her sides within a couple of seconds leaves me stunned for a moment, in the meantime she immediately heads onwards into the cave.
  10. Skaftá just drops onto the ground next to Scáthán, all 4 of her legs stretched out, her head and tail lying flat on the floor unmoving.
  11. I snap out of it and quickly make my way over to her, kneeling down next to her head I ask her if she’s alright.
  12. Her mind makes contact with mine again for the first time that day, until then I hadn’t even realized that her presence from my mind was gone, I suddenly feel like every muscle in my legs arms and weirdly my back is burning like I had just spent the entire day running.
  13. “I’m good thanks for asking…”
  14. Her thoughts feel a lot slower than they used to and she sounds exhausted.
  15. “Looks like someone overestimated themselves today.” Scáthán quips.
  16. Skaftá glares daggers at him and growls a little. “I’ll drain your energy if you don’t watch your words also, who’s the one who keeps overeating and then tries to fly anyways?”
  17. While her voice sounds majorly pissed off her thoughts appear rather calm.
  18. “Don’t try to act tough, you never were good at it. Also there is no need to drain my energy if I hand it over voluntarily.”
  19. I can feel both of their spirits withdraw from my head, then Scáthán tenses up for a few seconds and once he relaxes again Skaftá sighs a sigh of relief.
  20. “What did I just witness?” My eyes dart between them and a puzzled look has spread over my face.
  21. “It’s one of the many things we haven’t showed you about the telepathic connection we have, you can use it to send energy to any being you have a connection with as long as they are nearby. If you try hard enough you can also use it to steal a beings energy but that takes quite a bit more than just sending it.” Even though whatever Scáthán just said to me makes little sense I nod along.
  22. “Dragons truly are mythical beings I have to say, there is so much I don’t understand right now and may never understand.”
  23. “Don’t worry we don’t really understand how this and other things work, all we know is that it just works.” Skaftá sounds a lot more relaxed now and most of the pain radiating from her mind.
  24. “At least I’m not alone with that then…” I think to myself and sit down next to Skaftás head.
  25. “I see you didn’t manage to find any food today?” Scáthán asks.
  26. “Nothing I would have gotten away with, the humans are getting too paranoid about their livestock and because winter is approaching wild animals are getting scarce too, I could only get enough for me sadly.” Skaftá sounds utterly defeated and disappointed with herself.
  27. “Don’t worry I’ll be fine for a while, it just means we have to move again sometime soon, I assume you flew so far away because you were looking for a new place to stay?” Scáthán sounds calm but a slight feeling of unnervedness can be felt deep down in his mind.
  28. “Yes, and I think there should be a place for us to stay about 2 days of flying away from here, I hope so at least.”
  29. “Wait so we are just going to up and leave?” I ask rather surprised and scared.
  30. They both turn to me and nod in unison “We don’t really have a choice, it’s either starve or move. I hope you are fine with that.” Skaftá tries to sound reassuring and smiles at me.
  31. “I guess? It just feels so sudden and out of the blue, like you were getting food just fine yesterday.”
  32. “That was because we were going after the humans livestock and now they have become hyper vigilant and it’s really hard to not be noticed when hunting. The wild animals have fled the area, we only get the occasional herd passing through now.” Scáthán sighs. “I really hoped it would take longer but there’s nothing we can do now.”
  33. “But we have a few more days right? We don’t have to leave right away right?”
  34. “No little one don’t worry, we’ll be fine for another 2 or 3 days.” Skaftás warm smile makes me forget all my concerns, after all with them around do I really need to worry about anything? It’s not like there is anything keeping me here or anywhere really.
  35. Sensing my approval of the decision they both visibly relax. “Why were you two so tense just now? It’s not like I could do much even if I had a problem with it.”
  36. “Well you see if we were to force you to come with us it would inevitably result in you trying to run away which would not end nicely for you to say the least.” Scáthán says rather curtly.
  37. “I know you can’t ever let me leave but couldn’t you just remove any memories of dragons from my brain?” I’m taken aback by his terse answer. “No sadly we can’t do that…”
  38. A lump forms in my throat as the realization sets in, at this point it’s either stay with them of die.
  39. “Oh…Well it’s a good thing I have no reason to ever try running away then.” The feeling of despair quickly dissipates as I remind myself of how nice they have been to me so far and how this was sort of my dream life as a kid.
  40. Skaftá and Scáthán seem to be at ease now that they can feel me fully accepting them as my new family or however you would call it.
  41. “It’s getting quite late, could one of you help me make a fire?” I ask in an attempt to break the silence that had settled.
  42. Scáthán gets up and swiftly as always builds me a little campfire and ignites it with one short burst of flames, in the meantime Skaftá takes over egg duty, she’s still visibly exhausted.
  43. Once I heaved my faux pan into the fire I quickly place my leftovers on it and watch them slowly start to sizzle. After a while I deem them warm enough and stab one with my DIY knife and start eating.
  44. Scáthán watches me eat and I can tell he’s hungry, partially from how he’s looking at my food but mostly from the feeling of hunger flooding into my mind from his.
  45. “I know it’s nothing for you but would you like some too?” I ask him, he looks at me, a bit confused but then realizes what I mean. “Oh don’t worry about me Arya, I’ll be fine.” Just as he finishes his sentence his stomach grumbles loud enough that even Skaftá turns her head.
  46. “Are you sure?” I struggle to stifle my laughter and not drop my food.
  47. He whinges quietly and turns his head away from me. “Yes I am.”
  48. I grab one of the last 3 pieces from the fire and slowly get up with a smug grin plastered on my face.
  49. I walk over to Scáthán and hold the meat inches away from his nose. “Are you really sure?”
  50. He growls more aggressively this time but thanks to the telepathic connection I can tell he’s just trying to intimidate me.
  51. As he realizes that it isn’t working he goes quiet again, we stare each other down, unblinking, for a solid minute before he concedes. “Alright, alright just stop teasing me and give it to me.”
  52. “Catch.” I shout and toss the food in his general direction, his head moves so quickly it’s hardly a blur, then his mouth slams shut mid-air engulfing the pitifully small piece of meat. Fascinated and slightly frightened by his sudden and quick movements I sit back down at the campfire.
  53. “Good thing I pulled back my arm otherwise he might have caught a piece of it…” I shudder and try to shake the thoughts of dismemberment.
  54. “Not so smug now are we?” He sounds quite amused. “Don’t worry even if it looks scary I always take care to not harm you.”
  55. Nodding slowly I swallow the last bit of my dinner. “I know, you just took me by surprise.”
  56. With my tummy semi full I stretch and yawn, afterwards I get up and walk over to Scátháns side. I had originally planned to sleep next to Skaftá but she had already fallen asleep and I didn’t want to wake her.
  57. He quickly wraps his tail around me to form a makeshift blanket and bed and then places me right by his side before resting his head close to me just like Skaftá had been doing.
  58. I soak up the warmth flowing from his tail into my body and quickly a heavy tiredness spreads throughout my body, it’s almost scary how quickly I tend to fall asleep around them, almost like they have me under some sort of spell.
  59. Before I can think too much more about it I drift off to sleep dreaming of sweet nothings.
  60. The next morning comes much quicker than anticipated and I find myself gently being shook awake by Scáthán.
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