Chapter 57: Everett

Sometimes, I forget that the dragons don’t need me to heal as much as they need my knowledge of helping the hybrids. I was mentally ready to start stitching Ancalagon, then put burn cream on the dragons with blisters but by the time I’d gotten around to all of them, they were healed.

“You can heal too, you know?” Kaylani says, sidling up to me.

“I know, it’s just not the same,” I say, watching Avani and Cal fly off to search for, and hopefully find, Eliane and Cal’s brother.

“No, Everett,” she says, stepping in front of me. “I mean that you can pull on my element to heal, just like Cedric does with fire, like Ishir does with air.”

“I don’t know how, Kaylani,” I tell her.

“I know, that’s why I’m going to give you a crash course now. It will be easier to try on me. You can use your strength on the other dragons, but Avani is gone and there’s no way Cedric or Ishir will allow their mates to injure themselves to teach you.

I grab her arms, shaking her slightly. “I’m not willing to al