Little Talks (Dragonfly #7)

More Darke Magyk

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Zara
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"Absolutely not." Was the young Ghost king's first answer.

    "Xanthos!" I pleaded. "Come on, it's not permanent, only for a few weeks or so."

    Xanthos shook his head, his young white locks were thrown about carelessly. He looked like he had barely aged at all, with Ghost's long lifespan and all that. Now that I had grown up a bit, he looked young in my eyes, it was weird sensation.

   He paused, biting his lip. "Look, it's like I don't want to, okay? It would help if you guys would tell me why you wanted to be temporary humans in the first place. I mean it's great to see you up and causing trouble again Zara, but honestly trouble is the last thing I need right now."

He stared at me. "I went missing for weeks on end without a single word, only to be seen fighting on Tenebris' side, it's a wonder I wasn't impeached, although I don't think our sucky laws allow that. My point is I have responsibilities and I can't get involved. I'm still trying to win the trust of my people, you of all creatures should understand this Zara."

I frowned. "I know."

"I'm Jaysen by the way, I don't know if we've ever been introduced." Jay added.

Xanthos paused, and let out a genuine grin. "Pleasure."

"I'm also pretty sure we don't know anyone else who can sneak us into the human world besides you." He replied, continuing to slide our point across.

Xanthos sighed. "I don't know what to tell you, okay? I'm not even sure if I would be able to so it. Ever since the Battle of Dragonfly my Magyks been really weak."

Jay opened his mouth to try and argue a bit more, bit I rested a wing on his shoulder to silence him.

"No, it's all right. We can find another way. Sorry we can't tell you, it's kind of confidential. If this works you'll be one of the first people to know." I explained, dipping my head in goodbye.

Xanthos gave me a sympathetic grin. "I'm sorry too. I hope whatever you two are getting up too is extremely dangerous, otherwise I would be disappointed."

I laughed dryly. If only he knew.

"Oh and Zara? It was really nice seeing you again. It get's really lonely up here." Xanthos sighed. "I hope you can come back soon."

"We do too." I agreed.

That was that, we weren't getting any help from the most magykcally extensive creature we knew.

"Who else do you know who has that kind of magyk?" Jay asked, and we padded quietly through the earthen tunnels of Ghost Mountain.

"I dunno, I don't think bird magic is all that strong. Glamora knows whatever happened to Scrylla's Queendom. I don't think The Four have the ability to transform things. Xanthos was our only chance." I realized, my heart sinking lower and lower.

I think I have a solution. Zach spoke up. I opened my mouth to tell Jay what he was saying when Zach interrupted me.

Don't tell Jay, I don't want to get his hopes up. If my idea works, you'll know. Trust me.

I frowned internally and wondered what that meant. My brother can sure be cryptic sometimes, or maybe that was just dumb masculinity talking. The flight back to The Hill was long and mostly silent as the two of us pondered what to do next. I already had most of the items that were achievable in Coniurantum, save for a few weird non-magykal ones that I figured we could probably pick up in the human world as well.