Sam
My wings read my mind and stretch to full length. This isn't a well-thought plan, I'm practically going on some instinct. I swear I know that place, I'll have to ask Dad. Then I'll…
Wait…
Dad!!
I totally forgot that I kind of disappeared off the map when on the run from Em's Mom. But I had a bag that held my phone and an extra shirt. I couldn't help but gasp. Emberlynn tenses up suddenly, hearing me.
What is wrong?? Something happened?... She raises her wings up in alarm. I shake my head in disbelief.
My dad… I had a bag that I had when I went to practice flying with you but you got attacked by your mom. I don't know if I dropped it in the process of me blacking out. And I'll need to go back so I can find out where the place in your vision is. Hopefully, my Dad doesn't panic enough to call the FBI on me. I try to lighten the mood but I regret it the instant the words fill the empty air. I keep forgetting that I'm talking to a freaking dragon, she's not going to understand my humor and confusing jokes. I walk to her. I'm surprised at how comfortable I am around her now. I look at her in the eyes, ignoring my complaining stomach.
She looks at me with certainty and tinge of worry. I can't help but smile, and I muster the image into my mind's eye. Why can't I figure it out? Like, HELLO BRAIN!!! That's your cue to start working correctly! I look at the ever-rising sun, reaching its peak. It's time to go. As if Em is reading my mind (which I suspect she is...ha!) She starts for the edge of the cliff and looks out on the horizon.
Are we starting our journey?... We're los- Her eyes widen and her body tenses in a split second. I majorly freak out, yelling some gibberish, running toward and putting my arm on her front leg/arm, somehow believing if she falls, I'll be able to catch her.
My confidence is something else, I tell you… Confident when I'm about to prevent a 2 ton-something pound dragon with my 136-pound body with arms that can pick up 80 pounds max, and not confident when I'm choosing a freaking college to go to in two years. How does that work? I have no clue.
I watch her for any signs of distress or pain. This vision thing seems to take forever. To wait for it to end, I lean forward and press my forehead lightly, as if my added weight will cause her to collapse, and unconsciously, my mind presses against her barriers. As if she feels my presence, she lowers them down and her vision clouds my vision, but it's not just a vision, someone's talking.
But it's in a language I've never heard before. Well, I can't really say that. I know a little Spanish, a LOT of sign language. That's about it so… for all I know, this could be Latin or Italian, for goodness sake. I can't make sense of it, obviously. But I can sense that Em does. All I see as this voice talks to us….or Em, is trees. We're flying over trees, there's a familiar large river too. It looks like when you zoom out a camera to it's max and zoom in to a certain point really fast. When the zooming stops, (gladly because I swear I was getting 'zoom sickness' hehe) I...We see the top of a mountain, at least I think it's a mountain, it's foggy all around and in front of us, large rocks form like a foundation or platform for a vertical standing boulder, and flaunting the name of her family, I don't know how I know it's her family name. With two other long oval rocks leaning against the boulder with her family name. Now as I'm trying to glue the image to my mind, my brain goes on the fritz. Not wanting to work, it's instantly wrapping around the colors of the foreign language. I hear a female ask what sounds like a question in the music to my ears… or would it be my mind? I'd know that voice anywhere.
Em?... I blurt out, all the melodies silence at the echo of the word, which gives me shivers.
Sam?! She sounds more surprised as if she didn't notice my presence, but she was obviously distracted so I'm not hurt. Who is the guy talking to her?? I hear the man… should I say, man or guy? For all I know could be a dragon or a freaking Griffon (part eagle and lion) for all I know!! Anyhoo, the mysterious male creature (hehe) whispers something, sound like he's curious. Em responds quickly, ending her sentence with my name. I tense. This might be someone important. Do I sound okay, I feel as though I'm gonna puke, please. I mean PLEASE don't make me puke on Em's arm and while I could talk to who could be the king for goodness sake! I think Em would either get mad or she wouldn't stop teasing me about it. But they do another round of symphonies and everything goes blank, my consciousness left whatever that was so fast that I didn't feel it, it was just a light put out. I open my eyes, look up at Em, who is watching me carefully. Questions brewing, I swallow my nausea and say the first thing that comes to mind