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Excerpt“Come on, my Moon Dragon.” Gara was speaking. “Time to awaken.” Javen groaned, then managed to make one eyelid lift. He snorted a thin puff of smoke, and then blinked. His red-haired Gara was just a small spot way too close to his eye. He blinked again, and this time pushed his lover back as he tried to lift his head. “Take it easy, Moon Dragon,” Gara urged, sounding concerned. “I don’t know how long we were floating, but you have lost too much weight, my Moon Dragon. You need to awaken to eat what I have gathered.” The massive head dropped back to the soft ground. “Javen.” Gara’s voice took on a commanding tone. “Awaken.” Wanting to ignore that persistent voice but knowing he couldn’t, Javen forced his eyes open again, to acknowledge the existence of his mate, when all he really wanted to do was to tell him to fuck off. “I know you’re not happy with me at the moment.” Gara chuckled, easily reading the emotions and unspoken words from his mate. “But you need nourishment. It is not the same as an energy feed from me, but this place has some of the most luscious fruits I have ever seen.” Javen snorted and tried to roll his eyes, but it was difficult to express that kind of disgust when you could only get one eye open. He grumbled at his mate’s laughing response, then attempted to lift his head once more. “Good dragon.” Gara knew he was playing with fire… but then fire had always been a friend to him. “Very good dragon. Now if you get both eyes open…” Javen let out an annoyed snort, sending a dark puff of smoke at his mate before peeling his other eye open. Then Javen gasped, swallowing a deep trill of surprise. Where were they? Home, that laughing, familiar voice informed him, and Javen was too shocked to respond. He was in a paradise. It was like the dreams and legends his people told when depressed or when they wanted to be entertained. It was the perfect happy place that they all held deep in their wildest fantasies and their hopes for freedom. There were tall, emerald trees all around them — taller than even his own ryuu form — which bore the most amazingly colored fruits. The grass he lay upon was soft and lush, a pale green carpet for his comfort. The sky was a pure blue so bright it made his eyes water from its beauty. And the smells… The air was perfumed with the scents of brightly colored flowers, fertile earth, clear water… Gara? he sent to his mate, his eyes refusing to believe what his mind was telling him. Tears began to flow, massive droplets of disbelief as it slowly began to sink in. His dream… the dreams he’d been having… they were real. “Shh, my Moon Dragon.” Then Gara was touching him, running his hands through his long, tangled, silver mane, tugging gently at the silken hairs, and he knew this wasn’t a dream. “Shh…” “I… I didn’t kill us all?” Javen asked, his breathing hitching as more smoke poured from his snout. “I-I… the dreams…” “We are safe, my mate,” Gara responded, walking closer to that massive head to stroke and caress the reptilian face. “You have brought us to this… this paradise. You were correct, my Moon Dragon. But then, I always had faith in you.” |
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Are you plannng on writing a third book of the space opera series? Thanks Terry
Yes, Hon. I am working on that one now. I am trying to get it happy again, crazy tora jinn are acting funky! Oi! But I am plowing thought, one chapter at a time! *g*
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