Traded To The Lycan King by MG Wattsons

"He is baiting us." Teiran gruffs, looking around for something more than the few droplets that linger on the ground.

"Or it's someone else." I mutter, focused on the way the blood seems different. Pinker, almost like paint from the store in shades lighter than blood red.

"Both of you are wrong," Kyra murmurs in thought, scooping up a leaf with some of it on it as she brings it closer to her nose and sniffs.

"And what makes you think that?" Teiran asks, walking over to her.

"There is fur in it," she explains, but he huffs in disagreement.

"The fur could have happened before or after the blood was here." He parries.

Kyra shrugs, her smooth locks falling over her shoulder and swinging toward her face as she looks carefully at what's in her hand.

"I suppose that could be true, too. But this blood smells like a deer.

"Then why is it pink?" He frowns and I grin. It feels nice to know a little more about this than others.

"It's from the lungs. It's more oxygenated and therefore looks more pink than red. Do you not hunt deer very often?"

Teiran looks at me with a blank stare, "We don't hunt our deer the same way you do."

"Right," I mumble, remembering he is a big ass dragon under that human skin. He probably doesn't have to chase and tackle, but does more swooping and swallowing.

"Are you sure it is a deer?" He asks, as Kyra stands and walks further from us.

We follow her, watching as she processes everything in her head, her eyes focused and her mind unable to hear anything we are saying now. Until she stops and places her hands on her hips.

"I am positive." She says, looking back at us and then nodding forward to where a dead deer hangs, partially butchered.

"Ezrah?" I ask, moving closer, looking at the jagged cuts closer.

"Most likely," Kyra says.

Teiran says, moving

moves forward, passing the deer and stepping into a tiny

want to follow her, like a shadow forever attached to her but always beneath her, but it feels somehow invasive to see her like this, in a way I have

version he helped to shape, and that she loves so much. It feels wrong to

says from behind me. "There is enough meat here that we can turn

him and he snorts

here on my own for

what you are doing? Because it looks to me like you are cutting that deer like a novice." I wince as he

matter how it is cut." He says, looking mildly

her scent left behind. I follow it, weaving through trees until I see her. Her fingers touch various trees before she swoops down, touching the mossy ground. Then she drops to her knees and listens to the ground,

she does, the quick movement under the trees on the opposite side. My eyes stuck on the thing as it darts around, before stopping and standing at the edge of the light that

coming up next to her, my hand sliding up her lower back to alert her to

I whisper to her, only for there to be a chuckle that echoes

She tells me, her head tilting to

it's not." I

scared." A

me

often get scared, and most certainly not when it is someone of your kind." I tell her, which makes Kyra

this will offend the wood fae. She steps forward, her blond hair reflecting the sun with flowers strung throughout it. Her cheeks are red with

never do such a thing." She hisses. "That

a step closer. "Can

you know him?" The blonde elf narrows her eyes, her teeth grinding together. I can

him." I say, placing my hands up. "He is

She blinks.

with the dragons and the lycans..." Kyra says,

there are so many

there is a chance we will find ourselves fighting more of them. Which will slow us down and likely mean injuries in some

killed the deer go?" Kyra asks, moving back to the original