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curiosity got the better of Rain.
“Who was the girl?” he asked, referring to the girl he had brought in with him when he came.
“Her name is Kessie; I met her about two days ago. She’s Kayne’s and Addie’s friend.” Rain perked up at the statement, looking more interested in the conversation than he was just minutes ago.
“Addie? Little Adeline?” he chuckled in his own amusement, “is she still around?” Alex flushed at his brother’s accusation, knowing exactly what he was trying to say.
“Be quiet!” he scolded, his cheeks turning pale pink at the embarrassment.
“Be prepared for a lot of teasing little brother.” Rain replied coolly, not bothered by his brothers command. He himself had suffered a lot of teasing; being thrown off the room for ones dragon’s amusement was never as fun as she thought it might be. Rain gasped, remembering another fragment from his past.
“Iridium!” he shouted, getting up and starring out of the window with bars on them.
“Who?” Alex asked, after also getting up to see if he could look out of the window.
“My dragon,” Rain explained whilst turning to face Alex, “we’ve got to go and find her.”
“Where did you get a dragon?”
“Can’t remember?” and he truly couldn’t, all he remembered was her being with him, right from the start.
“Obviously,” Alex commented, he was going to ask more questions but since his brother was deep in conversation with himself he concluded not to.
“Would the mind link work?” Rain asked absentmindedly, still caught up in his own thoughts.
“Mind what?” Alex’s question remained unheard as Rain continued to talk to himself.
“Should do…” he turned around once more and walked to the window, maybe being closer to his dragon would strengthen the link. ‘Iridium, can you find me?’
‘On my way, kiddo.’ Came his dragon’s sweet reply only seconds later, it was only weak in the back of Rains mind, so he knew that she must be further away than he originally thought.
Once again the cells faded into silence as everyone resumed their own thoughts, most of them concerned with the coming war, and how to deal with it. A soft thud from outside brought both brothers back to the present.
A genuine smile broke out on the eldest brother’s face, illuminating it completely.
“Can I go and see her?” he asked, getting up. His action made Alex wonder if he really had a choice in the matter, but seeing how happy the dragon made his brother again left him with no other choice than to comply.
“Yes, but stay close to me, otherwise they might capture you again. Or worse.” He added under his breath.
The keys hung just outside on the wall to the cells and were unguarded, so Alex was able to retrieve them without any trouble. He placed the key in the lock and turned. A satisfying click could be heard and the door swung open, allowing a very happy rain to come out.

The things that had happened in her dream were becoming fuzzy, but Kessie could clearly remember trapping the little of the darkness that was left inside of her. She could feel it in every move that she made, it was bursting to get out, and she could feel its strength as if it were part of her.
After she had woken up, she had seen Addie and Kayne, if she would have been greeted by unfamiliar people Kessie didn’t think that she could have coped with it. She had to try to get home, to make things normal again. If they could ever be normal again.
She had then been introduced to Zitora, who she had taken an instant liking to, even though she did seem a bit on the violent side. At the meantime, they were walking back to the cell where Alex and Rain were supposed to be talking; Kessie didn’t like the feeling that she got when she turned the corner to see Rain out of his cell and walking with his brother.
Zitora sheathed her sword and moved swiftly over to Rain, who didn’t react as she pressed the tip of her sword to his neck, ready to kill him if he were to make a wrong move.
“Busted.” Kessie grinned as she saw the look in Rain’s eyes. He didn’t seem frightened, but wary.
“I want to see my dragon.” He said confidently as he brushed the tip of the sword away with two fingers, only to have it replaced in exactly the same position by Zitora.
“Let him see her.” Alex said, hoping to make Zitora remove her sword. Alex knew that Rain could be dangerous, but it didn’t change the fact that he was still his brother.
“No.” Zitora commanded firmly “he can’t be trusted. He still has the darkness in him.”
“No he doesn’t.” Kessie replied, for the first time getting what the thing she felt was. Rain glanced at Kessie, locking eyes with her.
“who are you?” those words shouldn’t have hurt Kessie like they did, after all, he was just some dark prince, but something inside her wanted him to be able to remember her. She looked away, unable to hold his intense gaze.
“Temporary memory loss, he’ll recover.” Zitora informed, examining her nails on one hand whilst still holding the sword pointed at Rain’s neck in the other.
“Kessie, how do you know he doesn’t?” Addie asked, ignoring Zitora’s rudeness toward Rain.

“It told me.” She replied in a whisper, trying to remember what it had said.
“You spoke to it?” Kayne asked, shock written all over her face.
“In a dream.” Although Kessie knew that it wasn’t a dream, she knew that explaining things would waste time that they didn’t have. After all they had a war to prepare for.
“What did it say?” Alex locked eyes with Kessie, trying to see if she was telling the truth or not. Kessie looked him straight in his eyes, willing him to believe her.
“It called me Aaya.” It was the part that she could remember most clearly, and the part that scared her the most.
Most people in the room just looked at her, not making sense of anything that she was saying. But Rain, he stood there, his whole body freezing.
“Terra’s Ex-keeper.” He breathed. Everyone turned to look at him, all thinking of different explanations. The roaring of a dragon outside caught everyone’s attention, much to Zitora’s annoyance.
Narrisa was already running off down the corridor after Rain, and was being swiftly followed by Kessie. The Black haired woman shook her head. She wasn’t going to get anywhere with people acting like this.
As Rain stepped outside, the first thing that he noticed was the colour of his dragon’s scales. They were white now, and not black.
“Iri!” he cried happily as he ran to her side, ‘did you miss me?’ he added through their mind link.
‘I thought I had finally gotten rid of you.’ She teased, even though she knew that Rain knew that she was only joking.
“She looks different.” Kessie stated as she came to join the two of them, followed closely by Narrisa who Kessie had overtaken with ease. Rain smirked at the statement
“Well yeah, she’s white now.” Kessie glared at him, of course she knew that the colour of the dragon had changed, but she wasn’t talking about that, she was talking about something deeper than that.
“Can we have a fly on her?” Kessie asked to no one in particular.
“You’re not allowed out of the base, but you can sit on it.” Zitora informed. Rain narrowed his eyes at her, didn’t she know that she had a name. Kessie didn’t notice the glare that Zitora received. She turned around to face Rain, her blue clouded eyes sparkling like a six year old child’s.
“Can I?” she asked excitedly. One corner of Rain’s mouth tilted up in a smirk.
“Need help up?” he asked whilst offering her a hand, which she gladly accepted.
‘If I’m thinking what you’re thinking, which I am because I can read your mind, then I suggest you don’t do it.’ Iridium informed him.
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Publication Date: 07-06-2011

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