I had to make some modifications to my class schedule since I can’t shift. Zephyr told me she was feeling left out since the rest of us are pregnant and I’m sure in a couple of weeks she’ll be announcing her own pregnancy. In addition, Everett began treating Brooke with Avani’s DNA. Her body is beginning to respond and he’s hoping that he can wake her in another week or so. He called Yhendorn about books on human-dragon mate bonds and child births. He and Kenna arrived one evening, a couple of days later, just before dinner and the four of us sat down to go through what he brought. “These are ancient manuscripts, you understand that? These are one of a kind books that I and my family have collected over centuries,” Yhendorn says, before laying a canvas bag on the table. “I understand. I’m only interested in them because I need to know how to keep Kaylani and my children safe during and after her pregnancy,” Everett assured him. “What are you concerned about, Yhendorn?” I ask him.

While I know that Avani won’t like it, I know that he’d be willing to allow Everett to experiment on him for this. However, it’s not up to Avani, it’s up to his rider, Merethyl. Everett called a meeting with the group over breakfast before classes begin today. Now that we have so many instructors, it’s taken a big burden off of me to try and teach all the classes. However, as time goes on, there are more and more classes that we need to add into the curriculum, such as how to properly claim a dragon. I don’t plan to give anyone pointers, but they need to know the laws surrounding the claim of a dragon. A dragon can only submit to one rider. If a group claims them, like what happened with the elves, there has to be one leader who the dragon submits to. They can’t submit to the entire group. Now that so many of these hybrids have dragon genetics, it’s important that they know when and how they can be claimed and for the others to understand the rules of claiming. As we walk to meet wit

I knew my mate could do it. He’s so smart, so diligent about helping others, that I knew that the anti-venom would work. What I wasn’t expecting is that he’d take it further and make a vaccination. As excited as I am about that, I’m more excited that this morning, we’re going to wake Brooke. She’s young, about Nova’s age and Nova is only 13. I know Aspen and Enya will finally settle once Brooke is awake and while they don’t have family looking for them, Brooke was kidnapped from a family who loved her. Ishir has been searching for them and he said he thinks he has some informationto share. He’s going to come by later to talk to us. Not only is my mate brilliant, but he’s also romantic. Being outside, watching the meteor shower, making love under the stars, it was so perfect. He is so perfect. “Why are you purring?” he says, wrapping his arms around me, whispering in my ear and making my body respond instantly. “I was thinking about how perfect you are.” I hadn’t even realized I was

I checked on Brooke throughout the afternoon. Because she was hungry, Everett said she could eat small meals every couple of hours as long as they were bland. This actually helped because her grief was keeping her from being able to eat much, but her desire to leave this room was forcing her to eat. Aspen and Enya stayed with her all day, sometimes, just holding her hand, sometimes talking to her about what it’s like here. By dinner time, I was able to help her sit up at a table to eat with Enya and Aspen. I already know that she’s not strong enough to leave the hospital tonight. She might have been if not for the news of her parents, but that has slowed her recovery and after dinner, I put her back into her bed as she’s too exhausted to walk. Everett comes in a few minutes before our meeting with Cedric, Ishir, and the others. “How are you feeling, Brooke?” he asks her. “Tired,” she answers honestly. He nods, checking over her vitals before turning back to her. “I’d like you to

Everett and Merethyl got Fenian and Yhendorn to agree to the paralytic testing. Yhendorn wanted to be on-site for the process to help if the vaccine didn’t work. So, we waited until the weekend to test Fenian. Yhendorn flew in with Kenna, and while he went inside to talk to Fenian before the test, Kenna went to talk to the dragons. Another one shifted this week, this time it was one of our female fire dragons. Both Everett and I have realized that the females seem to be shifting before the males. I asked the others and it’s not something that the dragons had ever consciously paid attention to before. I’m on my way to the hospital when Tesha comes rushing up to me. “Kaylani!” “Tesha, what’s wrong,” I ask, seeing the panicked look on her face. “Is it true?” “Is what true?” “Is Fenian going to do some stupid test to see if the elves are immune to the paralytic?” she asks, tears in her eyes. I take her hands. “No, that’s not exactly true,” I say, pulling her away from prying ears.