The tiny silver dragon blinks its eyes and looks at Tamli. It squeaks and Tamli seems drawn to it by some strange feeling.
This dragon, he mutters. I think I'm its mate.
Murtagh, Thorn, and I can't help but say nothing as the silver dragon rubs against Tamli's body.
"That is impossible. You . . . you were bound to Finca," Murtagh stammers.
I nod and Thorn growls softly, not understanding this.
I realize that but somehow . . . when I was turned into a dragon my bond to Finca must have been broken and thus I might now be able to find a mate, Tamli says.
Thorn growls.
I thought that once a dragon and rider were one then they stayed as one, am I correct? He asks.
That may have been the case but I believe this is different, I growl.
What is different about it? Thorn roars. This human was once a Dragon Rider like Murtagh is and now look at him!
That wasn't my fault! Tamli snarls, causing all of us to get quiet.
Thorn blinks and Tamli growls, his anger even I can feel.
"Whose fault was it Tamli?" Murtagh asks.
The white male looks away and I growl, knowing who it was.
Finca turned him into a dragon, I answer for Tamli.
"What how is that possible? She is dead! You saw her die and yet you believe she turned her rider into a dragon!" Murtagh shouts at me.
Tamli sighs and looks up at me, his purple eyes holding back his emotions. Thorn growls and joins his rider in the fight to prove that Finca was dead by the time Tamli was turned into a dragon.
Finca is alive, Tamli growls suddenly as I realize that he is going to tell everyone what he saw when he went off. I felt her presence near Das-Leona lake and she is alive.
He finishes with a harsh snarl and the silver hatching curls herself beside him, laying down as she does so.
You never told me the lake's name, I growl softly to Tamli.
There was no time, he replies before Thorn stands up and motions for Murtagh to get on his back.
Stay with us please, I beg as the ruby dragon prepares to take flight.
We must go, Thorn growls before leaping into the air and flying off.
Tamli sighs and lays down next to the silver hatching.
What do you want to name her? I ask, having known the egg's genders due to Finca telling me before she passed.
Tamli looks at the tiny dragon for a moment and an exhale from my nostrils causes him to blink.
Oh sorry I was thinking about something else, he mutters before looking up at me.
I growl under my breath and Tamli sighs again.
A name? I ask again, getting slightly annoyed.
Linear or Luna for short, Tamli replies.
Luna it is then, I nod.