"Yours Grams had met my Grandmother too." I heard Joe say off hand.
My eyes snapped to him, I looked into his warm brown eyes realizing I had seen him before. I was little, running in the forest with my first horse. A grey Arabian stallion. We raced the fog and anything else that we could use to run fast with. It was a time when, he had thrown me. I laid on the ground waking up to see a young wolf yipping at me. I jumped up and started walking backward. The eyes of the young wolf warm and welcoming. "You.." I breathed.
Joe sat back in his chair, a smirk about his lips. "It was." There was a playful glint in his eyes as he looked at me. "You were running my woods that day. I did not mean to spook the grey but could not help the smell that drifted from you guys." He eyes warmed, there was something in them that made me look away.
"I get it, I should not have been on the trail." I grabbed the cup on the table just to watch the contents of it splash across the table. "I am sorry." The sheepish look I gave to One who Remembers was one that I knew was just as awkward.
"I see, the family awkwardness has managed to travel the line well." She smiled, her fangs only hinted.
"Yes, that it seems." I said with a shy giggle. I glanced at Joe. I could see he was watching me closely. "How long have you been watching me?" I asked him.
"Since I was asked to come here?" He mentioned off hand as he ate the food before him.
"That Dragon pact part of it?" I vollied back to him.
"Actually no, that was a bit surprising, but seeing as how it would require me to be with you for as long as needed, I figured it would be well worth it." There was a wolfish glint to his eyes.
Tala grew excited, I reminded her he was not Red. Though even I have, been oddly looking at him to.
"Dragon pact?" I heard One who Remembers ask.
"Yes Tvso made him promise to watch over me after Tvso killed the black dragon that was the one to take me." I summarized.
I watched her grey eyes turn violet and look at Joe. "Did he seal it with the elder light?"
Joe dropped his head a little and answered, "He did, also told Accalia that he would come back once it was all done to tell her the missing history personally." His eyes still down cast.
Violet eyes looked at me, "A dragon sealing a pact is much like a union or a marriage." Looking back to Joe, "I understand why you agreed, though I wish it had been done with her full knowledge." She sighed, closing her eyes she opened again and they were grey again.
"What does it mean?" I asked.
"Dragon's light seals one soul to the other. Being that he sealed us. I am to protect you even if it means my life. Souls sealed or a contract is formed. From now on, even when we are reborn in new lives our souls will look for each other." He sighed pushing the food away.
"I see, I know of soul contracts." I looked at One who Remembers "will this effect Red and I?"
"No child, you have a bond with that man like the moon does with the stars. He will love you fiercely, and always." Looking at Joe, "I suspect this maybe a bit difficult for you."
"I knew it would be. I have never seen one who has a contract with two other souls. Even in Dragon lore this does not happen." He sat back in his chair stretching out his whole frame. It was like watching a mountian lion stretch after eating a meal. Dangerous but you still were pulled closer.
I shook my head of those thoughts, Tala added, "Not a mountian lion but an alpha wolf," she hummed with exictment. Ugh, one person in my head was hard but two.... Lord help me. This was gonna get difficult. I love Red, but this strangely quiet and oddly very seductive man was gonna test all that I hold dear. The attraction to him was like a leash pulling me in that direction. I needed to get back to Red. I knew once in his arms this spell would or whatever it was would flop. Well at least I hope it did.