Poison: A Dragonian Series Novella (The Dragonian Series) by Adrienne Woods Page A

rows in front of me, right next to Peter.
    Her entire posture changed whenever a professor said those words.
    The class went on and on, it was about some sort of potion that could change your appearance. It was cool, but for some reason I couldn’t pay attention.
    What that reason was, was unclear, but it was something that happened so often lately. I couldn’t believe that a month had passed already and in that month nothing dragon-wise had appeared. He was still out there, somewhere, doing whatever he wanted to. I think it was the reason why I was so distracted. The past couple of weeks I’d been trying so hard to connect with Blake the way he did with me.
    Trying to lose myself inside my mind and just see if he was okay, where he was, how he felt.
    For him it was so easy.
    Everyone in this class had somebody, whether it was a dragon or Dragonian.
    I was the odd one out. Still I needed to take the classes to learn. I was supposed to learn with Blake, but I didn’t have to say that anymore. He didn’t want to be here to learn.
    Keep your chin up high , was the first thing Queen Margerite had taught me. It was followed by endless hours during the summer of learning that it wasn’t just my chin I needed to keep up. It was everything, and it was something I still struggled with.
    It felt as if I was going to lose my mind and I just wanted to fly away.
    That was when I missed her: Cara.
    She wouldn’t have let them do this to me, but I had no choice, I’d had to kill her. She would’ve killed me when I ascended. It was her choice in the end, still, I kept feeling that so many people died because of a dragon that was too much of a coward to tell me the truth that night inside the woods when we tried to retrieve a sword that had my blood line all over it.
    He’d always known who I was, and yet, everyone blamed the darkness in him.
    Lucian could’ve still been alive, even Brian as we wouldn’t have had to go on that stupid quest in the first place to find the missing sword.
    Goran must’ve seen it that day, who I was, which was why he was so desperate to kill me.
    Blake saved my life, huge surprise there, but I know now why he’d done it.
    Still, not saying anything to Lucian and letting him go on that quest was cruel.
    I don’t know if I would ever forgive him for that.
    I’d never wanted to claim Blake. I was dark that time as I’d carried some of his burden, the way my lecturers had told me during summer, but it’d freed me in some sense. The dark made me tell the truth, even though I didn’t care about who I hurt and who I was becoming.
    That Elena scared me so much. Still, she was inside of me and a part of me missed her too.
    Then why do I want him to come home so badly? It was something that was drilled into me this summer. For the sake of Etan, even though it would be another thing that would never happen.
    I need Blake to get past the Creepers.
    I’d promised my father that I wouldn’t.
    I didn’t think about that last part anymore, if Blake was really able to read my thoughts, of course he knew.
    The bell rang and I jumped in my chair.
    “Seriously, nothing?” Becky looked at me. “You could at least try, Elena. That was actually one of the most frawsome lectures I’ve ever had.”
    She picked up her backpack and slung it over her shoulder.
    “It feels as if I’m wasting my time, here.”
    “You’re not. Just listen.”
    “Boring,” I said and she giggled, bumped me softly and pulled me from my chair and hooked her arm into mine.
    “Sir Edward is right, Elena. He will come back and then you’re going to be extremely sorry that you didn’t take notes.”
    I got bumped from behind and Tabitha walked past me with huge strides.
    “You need to get over it Tabitha, really,” Becky left her two cent comment.
    “Don’t, just let it go,” I said.
    “She just walked you out of the way, Elena. What happened to that fierce ‘nobody will do shit to me’ girl you were a couple of months