Chapter 13. "The limit"

Five years earlier

About twenty years old dragon detective was lying on the ground on the border between the field and the forest. His horn was cut off in half and several dark red and yellow scales were lying on the ground. There was a deep wound in his throat which would intensively bleed, if he didn't desperately hold his paw on it. The red fire breather cursed in his mind. He was tricked by his customer and now he was going to die any moment. Fifty kilometers from the closest city with critical injuries... He wished he could see Candice once more. He hadn't talked with her for so many years. Then he heard a noise. Somebody was coming. "Dragons?" He said to himself hopefully. "No, that smell... wolves." He smiled to himself sadly. "I'm dead."

Meanwhile, young dragoness called Ivory was flying above the forest. All her scales were clearly white, only her wings were darkened at the ends and covered in irregular thin light grey stripes. The only part of her body with different color was her azure eyes, glowing continually with weak, almost invisible light and black horns, talons and smooth tailblade. At her side, there was a bag with medicines. Her element was ice, but she wasn't good at using it at all. She was always jealous of Candice about her natural talent. Ivory's specialization was completely different. She'd learnt how to use pure energy; magic. She'd trained it for ten years already, since her father's death. The dragoness glanced at the moons and started flying faster. She had to find her friend, before something bad happened to him. Time was passing inexorably.

Twenty wolves appeared from the forest and looked around the battlefield. One of them went to the dragon and touched his scales.
"He's still alive, Alpha. But he's losing his blood so quickly, he will die before sunrise." The wolf stated. Alpha wolf took his sword, went to the fire breather and crouched. He glanced at his eyes in which there was almost no life.
"Do you want to die quickly or slowly?" The dragon kept on holding his throat. He tried to use a breath attack, but he just groaned and a black smoke left his jaw. He hissed angrily. "I think that means quickly." Alpha guessed. He pointed one of his subordinates. "Kill that dragon. I don't have time for scum like him." The wolf smiled, but didn't take his sword. He was going to do it with his bare paws. He glared at the dragon.
"Aren't you going to beg for your pathetic life?" He asked scornfully, but the fire breather smiled.
"Quit that bitching and hurry up." Flush was already bored with the whole show. The wolf snarled annoyed, jumped to the dragon and was about to kill him. Then, a white dragoness appeared from shadows. She stabbed wolf in his throat with talons, flew quickly between the wolves and landed at safe distance from them. All the wolves and dragon turned their heads to see the white dragoness.
"I...Ivy?" Flush asked, surprised. "Run, you idiot! What are you doing here?!" He shouted.
"I'm not going anywhere without you!" She screamed at Flush and Alpha wolf started laughing.
"We attacked your mate, huh?" He asked. Ivory blushed with embarrassment. She had always dreamt that he would be her mate and... "Do you want him? Come here and get him." Alpha's words brought her back to reality.
"Leave him alone!" The ice dragoness shouted, filling her voice with magic. Because of her scream, the air around them seemed to become thicker and it felt like shaking for several seconds. The wolves watched her surprised. Alpha didn't react, but watched his subordinates with disappointment.
"Don't be afraid of that brat." He said. One of the wolves wanted to attack the dragoness, but Alpha stopped him. "I'll do it myself." The wolf took his sword. It was long, wide and rugged. "What's your name, dragoness?"
"I...Ivory." She answered, a bit dumbstruck by that question.
"My name is Grey. Probably the last name you've ever heard."
"Don't be so self-assured." She replied. Then, Alpha, staying ten meters from her, started swinging his sword the fastest he could. He was doing it so quickly Ivory couldn't even see the blade. Grey started laughing as Ivory's eyes grew wide, while trying to catch up with the blade.
"I'm not too confident. I simply know my skills." Then, the wolf started running to her. A knife appeared in his paw from nowhere. He threw it to her. Ivory reflected it with the talons of the front paw and by this same paw she stopped the enemy's sword. Miraculously, neither of blades killed her, as she would expect it to end up. The white dragoness tried to stab his throat killing him instantly, but then, wolf caught her paw and kicked her face by the knee throwing her into the air. Then the wolf kicked again, this time her chest. The blow sent her to the ground several meters farther. When she was trying to stand up from her back, Grey appeared above her. He tried to pierce her chest by the sword. She shielded herself with tailblade, but he pushed it away by the other arm. Then Ivory rolled at the side. The sword got stuck in the ground. That was her chance. Ivory shot a small ice spike at him. Grey didn't even have to lean, Ivory missed so badly.
"Is that all, that you've got?" Gray asked with disappointment. Ivory attacked the wolf. He had no time to take the sword, so he protected himself with his paws. The dragoness tried to slash across his face, but the wolf caught both her paws, hit her face with his head and kicked her painfully again. Ivory fell onto the ground and groaned pitifully. She didn't want to use that skill, because there was a possibility she would overdo it and wouldn't be able to heal Flush. Grey walked to the dragoness and glanced at her scornfully. Next he spitted to the ground in front of her, caught her tail and threw her for about ten meters, so she was far away from all the wolves and Flush.
"Kill her. I don't have time for scum like that." All the wolves took their swords and started running to Ivory. Meanwhile, Alpha slowly went for his sword and hid it in the scabbard. Ivory sat on the ground and closed her eyes. "Seems like I have to use it." She felt the blue aura surrounding her body. She really didn't want to. She hated hurting others with it, but for Flush...
"More, more, more..." She focused so much of it she felt she would explode. "Release!" Ivory opened her eyes, when the wolves were one meter from her swinging blades ready to give her deadly slashes. Then a wall of invisible energy threw them all into the air. Alpha glared shocked at that. One second after the blow of magic, the dragoness started swinging paws quickly, releasing magic quickly, with each swing, throwing a wolf to her only to slit his throat with medically precise slash. Before any of them reached ground, they all were dead. At Ivory's forehead appeared several drips of sweat, she was breathing quickly, exhausted with that movement. It took her only ten seconds to kill all his subordinates, but she wouldn't be able to repeat that blow. The wolf drew his sword and ran to the enemy.
"Die, scum!" He shouted and took sword above his head, when he was two meters from the dragoness. She released a small amount of energy from her jaws, throwing away his blade. Grey stopped with a tailblade touching his throat. The sword whirled for several seconds and stuck in the ground behind its owner. In the eyes of the white dragoness there were burning blue flames.
"How...W...Wha...What are you?" Grey was shaking because of fear.
"It's over, Grey." Ivory silted Alpha's throat, killing him instantly. Then she glared at her friend. Her magical aura disappeared, as she ran to him. Flush glared at her and smirked, as Candice would call that, like an idiot.
"What was that power? I haven't even noticed, when..." He tried to ask, but the white dragoness closed his mouth gently.
"Don't speak too much. I've learnt how to use magic in the battle." She explained. Flush's eyes grew wide. He knew that Ivory could use a magic pretty well, but he never expected something like that from her. The white dragoness glared at fire breather's wounds and tears started falling down her cheeks instantly. Flush was dying and it was going to be hard battle for his life. She crouched in a small puddle of his blood and started healing him. At first, the throat. She stopped bleedings using magic, before he would bleed to death. The dragoness took restorative elixirs from her bag and forced him to drink them. That was a special and very rare medicine. It could slow down dying caused by loss of blood or take the tiredness away for a short time. That gave her about two or three minutes more. Next she put medical leaves on wounds at the torso and limbs. She didn't clear them, she had no time to worry about infection. After that she wanted to heal internal injuries, by magic this time. Ivory started concentrating energy at her paws, but it flew away instantly. When she concentrated enough to see the blue aura, it would simply disappear. The white dragoness tried to catch it, but it was impossible to catch a haze by bare paws. She was mad at herself, as she understood what was wrong. The detective closed his eyes. Seeing that, she started panicking. "Flush! Flush! Don't close your eyes! Wake up! You can't leave me now!" The white dragoness shook his unconscious body, as if he was just sleeping. "You can't die! You can't die!" That was her magical limit. Her father died of unknown ten years earlier disease. That's why she started learning medicine. And now, because of her weakness and recklessness, her best friend was dying. She tried to use magical power surrounding her, but she wasn't able to do it anymore, she simply spent too much of it. "Flush, I never told you this, but I love you!" She shouted. "I really love you! You… You can't die now! When I finally told you! I beg you…" The fire breather couldn't hear her anymore. His heart and breath were slowing down. "And because you can't die, I'll sacrifice my life for you." Ivory whispered. That was when she decided to use her last ultimate cure. Ivory wounded her paw, there appeared small drip of blood. Next she did this same with his and grasped his paw connecting their wounds, so their blood could mix. This was a technique both invented and forbidden by Lian, her ancestor, by which she could give her own life to heal another dragon. It couldn't resurrect, but healed all injuries immediately. The price for this healing was very high: user's life. Ivory disconnected their paws. She almost fell on the ground, because of the overwhelming weakness, as between them created a stream of the red aura. Ivory watched carefully Flush, unsure, if she could do it. Then the white dragoness kissed Flush passionately. "Give me strength." A simple tear left her eye. She knew that this story wasn't going to have the happy end. "Farewell, Flush." Ivory sighed deeply. She drank another restorative elixir to give Flush more energy. "Even if I've learnt it, I never thought that I would have to use the exchange of lifes." She said to herself. Then, she activated a spell. The sudden weakness brought Ivory to the ground. The red aura started shining and flowing from her to the fire breather's body. The dragoness felt that she was going to faint, but she had to keep concentrated. That was only way to save Flush. If she interrupted it, he would die.
As life power was flowing from Ivory, her heart start beating irregularly and she started having problems with breathing. She felt creeps across whole body, as she felt breath of death at her neck. She realized that she was dying. "Should I do it?" In her head appeared doubts and the fear of a death. Ivory shook her head. "Of course, yes." Though she didn't want to die, Flush was worth of such trivial sacrifice, as her life. She hugged Flush with rests of her strength. Her eyes closed, when eyelids appeared to be too heavy to remain opened. She had to admit that death wasn't so bad. So relaxing… Almost as falling asleep, but so unusual. She smiled slightly. Last seconds of her life and she had only one thought. Three simple words, which made her sacrifice herself for him.
"I love you..."

Flush slowly opened his eyes to be blinded by intensive sunshine. He groaned painfully and closed them quickly. Then, he felt that his head terribly hurt. "Good sign." He smirked. "Still hurts, still alive." The detective watched around. Dead wolves were surrounding him. Then, he felt very cold touch against whole his tail and belly. He jerked his head at side to see Ivory. She was lying nestled at his left side and covered by his red wing. Her lips were curled in blissful smile. He tried to stand up, when he understood that their tails were intertwined. "What have happened?" He asked himself. He quickly disconnected their tails and stood up. Only thing he remembered was Ivory's scream to don't close his eyes. Flush touched his throat and felt that all that remained after deep wound was just a scar. He had no idea, what kind of power Ivory used to heal him.
The fire breather decided that he should wake her up. It was almost midday already, after all. He poked her shoulder softly. "Ivy? Wake up..." She didn't react. "How can she sleep in such a moment?" He asked himself. "Ivy? Wake up." He repeated with impatience. She didn't move at all. "Ivy?!" Flush sighed deeply with helplessness. Not thinking much about that, he stung Ivory's shoulder by a talon to wake her up. And then, to his satisfaction, the white dragoness opened her eyes and hissed angrily.
"Flush?! What are you..." She froze, as realized that she was still alive.
"You were in such a slumber that for a moment I could swear you were dead." The fire breather joked. Ivory laughed silently.
"You have no idea." She said ironically to herself. Then she started asking herself in her mind. "How is that possible that I'm still alive?" Ivory understood everything, as she tried to stand up. She was too weak to do it. It seemed like she had disconnected from him before giving Flush whole her life energy. That was enough to save him and not kill her. Ivory sighed with relief. So it wasn't just a dream. She took last restorative elixir from her bag and drank it. Now she felt much better. She tried to stand up, but, still weak, collapsed at Flush. The dragoness got off him quickly, though quite reluctantly, and tried to hide that she was blushing. Unfortunately, white scales weren't helping her at all.
"Ivy, why were we... you know..." Flush started. The white dragoness watched him, completely dumbstruck.
"What are you talking about?" She asked suspiciously. Was there something, she didn't know about?
"Well..." Flush considered for a while. "...I think that you were cuddling me." He explained her. In result, Ivory lost control on her body and blushed even more intensively. She tried to hide it by pressing her paw to cheek, which looked ridiculously. Flush laughed loudly. He loved watching her like that. Ivory understood that the detective lost consciousness before hearing her confession of love.
"W...What is so funny?" She asked silently. She hated this. She always was so shy, when he was around. She really wished to confess her love to him once more, but she couldn't say it now.
"You know, sometimes you flush so intensively that you look like you were the fire breather, not me." He smirked.
"D...Do I?" She stumbled. Ivory felt, she was blushing even more, if that was possible.
"Yeah." He confirmed. "Anyway, what have happened?" He asked curiously.
"Do you remember what I told you, before you lost consciousness?" She asked, still hoping she heard her confession.
"Something about not closing my eyes. Why do you ask?" Flush asked her suspiciously.
"Well, there was something more. Didn't you hear it?" She asked, disappointed. Flush shook his head. "It was about…" She wanted to tell him her feelings about him, but her shyness stopped her.
"About…" Flush encouraged her to continue, very curious about her next words. And it wasn't helping Ivory at all.
"About… N...never mind…I...I...I'll t...t...tell you…l...later. At...t other… op...p...portunity, I mean." She was stumbling nervously, completely embarrassed.
"Oh, come on, just spit it out." Flush asked her with disappointment. "You can't make such a tense as if you were going to confess me your love and then don't say a word." The fire breather wasn't making it any easier for Ivory. He never did.
"J...just never mind. When I think of this now… I was simply so stressed that I babbled something stupid." Ivory explained herself. Flush sighed deeply.
"Well, if you don't want to, you won't tell me. Anyway, how did you heal that?" Flush pointed his throat. "I thought such deadly wound can't be healed.
"Magic." Ivory took deep breath and her cheeks started regaining their natural color. "I had to give you part of my own life power." She explained. That surprised the detective.
"Life power? You could die?" Flush asked, surprised. Ivory bobbed her head once. "You shouldn't have done something so risky just for me!" The detective looked at her like at the youngster, who just behaved recklessly. Ivory blushed. Again. She hung her head sadly, as if she did something really bad. The white dragoness wondered, how her friend would have reacted, if he'd heard her original plan of saving his life.
"Oh, come on, Ivy..." Flush, seeing his mistake, grasped her chin softly and raised her head, so they were watching in each other's eyes now. "I'm so sorry. I didn't mean you to be sad." He gave her apologizing sight. Ivory made herself stop flushing quickly. She had already a lot of practice in doing that after all. Whole ten years. "Never mind, I'm not angry at you at all. Oppositely, I'm so thankful that once we come home again, I'll give you luscious kiss." Flush promised her half-jokingly. Ivory's cheeks again turned into crimson. "If you stop blushing, of course." He added and smirked. The white dragoness smiled slightly, intensively trying to suppress an embarrassment. From distance of only thirty centimeters, she was watching his eyes, as if she was hypnotized... So close... It would be so easy for her to press her lips to his and confess her love. She placed her paw at his cheek, surprising him a bit. A voice of her heart was shouting: "Tell him! Tell him!" She enclosed herself to him a little making distance between their lips at least suggestive. Her heart was leaping in a joy, so exited to tell him that...
"You have a fever." She stated. She turned around, completely embarrassed and started walking away. "I'll get some food for us and you wait here." She decided. Her heart was screaming in an agony, as if it was being torn to shreds.
"I'll go with you." Flush stood next to her. It wasn't a suggestion.
"No way. You stay here and rest." Ivory refused.
"No." Flush smiled insolently and stood in front of her.
"You're ill and you shouldn't overtire." The white dragoness desperately tried to find a pretext to stop him. She had already enough of embarrassment for just one day.
"You're already overtired. Am I really supposed to stay here and do nothing and you, strong and mighty, but still, dragoness, will find food and look after me?" He asked. Ivory rolled her eyes.
"Oh, so that's the problem." Whole her embarrassment immediately disappeared, overwhelmed by anger. She hated, when he was saying things like that. And he did it often. Much too often. "Quit that male-female crap. You talk about this since ever. I'm not helpless, you know it well. And you barely survived, so please don't do anything stupid, right?" The white dragoness was about to fly away, when she noticed that Flush shook his head refusing. He was becoming annoying now, even for her. "Would you like to explain me, what is wrong with you?!" She shouted.
"I..." The fire breather was confused now. "I want to help you."
"You will help me, by sitting down and not moving your tail for even a centimeter from here whatever happens, do you understand that?" She felt, that her blood was boiling. Why was he so stubborn...
"No." He refused. Ivory sighed deeply. Seeing no other solution, she simply hit his face knocking him out and turned around to leave surprised fire breather. Normally, she would never hit him, but she had already reached her mental limit. She walked away for several meters, when Flush pushed her. Ivory lost balance collapsed and hissed angrily at her best friend.
"You hit me!" She shouted resentfully.
"I hit you?" He watched her unsure, if he should laugh or shout. He chose second option. "You knocked me out!"
"You talk about that male-female things and then hit me?" The dragoness blamed him angrily.
"I don't beat innocent neither helpless dragonesses! You're not innocent, neither helpless!" He shouted. Then, Ivory jumped to Flush. The fire breather made defensive pose, having some strange feeling that it wasn't going to be loving hug. They started rolling across the grass. Eventually, Flush was at her and held both her paws. She tried to release herself, but the fire breather was much stronger than her. After a moment she released one of her hinder legs and kicked him painfully. She stood next to lying in pain dragon and hit two spots at his body. One at his side, another close to his heart. Then Flush felt that he couldn't move. The white dragoness smiled and pushed him away from her. She was about to fly away, when Flush called her.
"Ivy? What is that?" He asked, dumbstruck.
"By hitting two spots at your body I can paralyze you for ten to fifteen minutes." Ivory explained.
"Sweet. Could you cancel this?" The fire dragon gave her begging smile and sight.
"Why should I?" Ivory asked. She started walking away.
"I promise I'll stay here." He offered, but she ignored him. "Ivy? Please?" He extended "e" characteristically for better effect. Ivory giggled silently and blushed slightly. He could be so sweet, when he begged her. She went back to the detective and hit again this same two spots, releasing him.
"Stay at this field, right?"
"Promised. And you know, speaking about that kiss... I was serious." The white dragoness turned around and flew away, before Flush would notice that she was blushing of him again.

The fire breather was lying at the grass and thinking about everything, what had happened. "She risked her own life to save me. Indeed, we can count on each other." He never thought about him and Ivory as lovers until now. There was a moment, he was sure, she would kiss him. Flush knew that she really liked him, but could that be called a love? He loved Candice, not Ivory. The detective shook his head getting rid of all those thoughts. Ivory and Candice were his two best friends. Ivory didn't love him. "After all, hitting in face and paralyzing isn't good way to show somebody that you love him..." Flush said to himself. He put a paw at his forehead and felt that it was indeed really hot. That was most serious fever he ever had. When he tried to stand up, he felt dizzy and almost collapsed. Then he noticed something yellow lying in the grass. "No way..." He went closer to mysterious object. "Is that my horn?" He asked himself dumbstruck. "They cut off my horn..." He took yellow horn in his paw and started watching it carefully. "Wonderful." He hissed with annoyance. "Oh, Ivory left here her bag. Maybe I should..." Then, whole his view was blurred, he felt terrible pain in his head. "What the..." Barely seeing it, he went to a small bag lying on the ground several meters before him. He tried to open it. Then, whole world started spinning in front of his eyes. Flush fell on the ground, tearing Ivory's medical bag with talons. All medicines spilled in front of him. Flush tried to find an elixir, which could help him and desperately tried to read descriptions on them, but his vision was too blurred. After half a minute, he gave up and allowed the darkness to consume him.

"You idiot! You were so close!" Ivory's heart was shouting at her. "You could tell it him! You could finally confess him your love!" It blamed her. "But what if he said no?" The second voice; a mind, replied. "He couldn't say no, you moron! He had no reason!" Ivory sighed sadly. "There is one and it's enough: he loves Candice." She shook her head. "No! You're lying! I'll prove you it and tell him that I love him right now!" Ivory's heart pushed the white dragoness back to the field, where was waiting for her Flush. When she saw the fire breather lying on the ground unconscious, she dropped hunted deer and started running to him, really scared about him.
"Flush?" She touched his forehead, it was even hotter than previously. "Dear ancestors... At this rate, fever will kill him before a sunset." She stated, mad at herself. That surely was some strange infection. If she had cleared his wounds back then nothing like that would have happened. She looked at medicines from her bag. There was nothing, what could lower his temperature and she still hadn't learnt any spells, which would help in this situation. She cursed herself in her mind. She learnt so many spells, but never thought about the one healing fever. She saw only one option, though it was very risky. She had to carry him back to the city. A distance of fifty kilometers with heavier than her Flush wasn't going to be a piece of cake for her so short time after using the exchange of lifes. But she didn't care about that at the slightest. She took some meat from the hunted deer and flew with the fire breather at her back in direction of her home city. That was going to be the hardest journey ever. She was terribly starving, but it didn't matter at all. All that mattered was Flush.

Blow of cold wind woke Flush up. He watched around with sleepy sight. He wasn't beating his wings, but he was flying. He noticed that it was Ivory, holding him with tail and front paws, beating her wings irregularly, as if she would faint any second. They suddenly dove, if she wasn't holding him, Flush would surely fall. Ivory stopped enclosing to the ground only several meters from tops of trees. The detective couldn't call this her natural flight, rather exhausting fight against wind, gravity and time. And she was losing. The white dragoness turned her head to see, if he was alright. Flush watched her with worries. She was so unnaturally pale, even as for her, and azure gleam in her eyes was almost completely gone...
"Ivy, what are you doing?!" He shouted.
"I have to carry you to the city!" She replied shouting the loudest she was able to, but still Flush barely heard her. "If I won't bring you there in next hour, your fever will kill you!" She explained.
"Land! You'll kill us both!" The fire breather shouted. "You can't fly at this state!"
"We're almost there!" Ivory informed him. Flush raised his eyes to see Teria. They were only one kilometer from it. Then, wind blown stronger, Ivory lost a rhythm and fell down for several meters. One of her feet touched top of a tree. She started beating wings stronger trying to increase height, there was no effect.
"Land now, Ivy!" The detective shouted. "I'll carry you to the city by the foot!" He bluffed. He knew that he was too weak. And so did Ivory. She simply ignored his words. "We have a time! Ivy!" She was ignoring him and stubbornly flying in direction of Teria. "Ivory!" He shouted desperately. "I'll be fine and at this rate you'll tire out yourself to death!"
"I'll make it." She whispered. Immediately, she felt overwhelming her weakness. That was her physical limit. "Not now..." She said to herself. "I'm so close..." She flew above some field.
"Ivy! Land now!" Flush shouted.
"I'm so close..." She repeated. Then, something cracked in her. Her wings stopped beating. For a second or two, she was gliding and then, started falling. "Not now…" She whispered. The ground was enclosing inexorably. Ivory closed her eyes. And then, she stopped. She expected it to hurt, to hear a noise of her cracking bones, but there was nothing. Only someone's sigh of relief.
"Just in time." A male voice said. She knew that voice from somewhere. Ivory opened her eyes and saw a lightning dragon holding her and Flush. She jerked her head and saw his face. It was Souka- guard from the city and also father of Ivory's friend.
"Nice catch, Souka!" Ivory noticed another dragon, a fire breather, most likely also the guard.
"I couldn't let her fall." Souka replied. The fire breather flew to him and took at his back Flush. Guards started flying back to city. "My little Sylvia wouldn't give me a moment of rest, if something would happen to any of you, Ivory, Flush." The white dragoness bobbed her head slightly. The fire breather burst out with loud laugh.
"Your little daughter? She has twenty-two years, mate and two years old daughter!" The lightning dragon replied something, but Ivory didn't hear what it was. Whole world she saw and heard like through the dark mist, which was howling down all sounds and blurring her vision. She didn't know, for how long did this state keep, maybe it were just several seconds, maybe whole months or years.

Then, she felt literally electrifying touch. The mist surrounding her immediately scattered. Ivory saw right above her a lightning dragon, but it wasn't Souka. She easily recognized him. That was her teacher in the medical academy at her last year, Bolt.
"He has infection, which causes deadly serious fever, Master Bolt." That was first thing, Ivory whispered. "Yesterday he had so serious wounds, I had no time to clear them." She explained. Then, Bolt noticed two small red signs, one at her, another at Flush's paw. He was old and experienced, so he easily recognized them. He watched her with disbelief.
"Call other medics." Bolt ordered sentries and they left, leaving them alone. Old medic was watching his student and didn't know what to say. "You tried to use exchange of lifes?" He asked. He never expected that any of his students would be talented and desperate enough to use the ultimate and forbidden healing. He still was underestimating Ivory's magical abilities. "You know it's forbidden." He said. He knew that elders of city didn't like the white dragoness, they were even scared of her a little. Most of them sought an opportunity to get rid of her from the city. The fact that she tried to use the forbidden magic would be perfect pretext for them.
"I didn't just try. I did it." Ivory smiled slightly. The lightning dragon couldn't believe his ears. "Yesterday. But I fainted while giving doing it." She explained her teacher.
"That was recklessness, Ivory. Don't you know that you should be dead by now?" Her teacher asked. The white dragoness started laughing quietly.
"Master Bolt, I meant to die. If that's a price for the Flush's life I'm not scared of death." Ivory closed her eyes. Flush was safe. She could finally rest. Her breath started slowing down. Then Bolt understood how critical her state was. She hadn't any wounds, but she used too much of magic yesterday. Also, to bring Flush there quickly, she overtired herself far away beyond any limits. The lightning dragon whispered to her ear "Don't leave us yet. Flush still needs you." In reply, Ivory muttered something faintly. At that moment, in room appeared five medics. Just in time. Bolt turned to them.
"Alright. Let's save them."