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She whispered so the
children would not hear.  It was not until Eben stepped behind her in obvious
support that she was answered.
    “There was much to
be healed and not all of it physical.”  She said her haughty voice dropping to
a low octave.  “I have blocked the memories but she has much power that is
still growing.  Eventually she will remember...and she has been marked.”  The
dragon looked to Eben when she said that.
    “Impossible.” 
Eben said immediately as Morgan felt her blood turn cold.  “Mages cannot mark
as dragons do.”
    “He used dragon’s
blood and magic to do it.”
    There was a great silence;
even the healer’s mate looked shell-shocked.  Morgan tried to get through the
block that was erected in Ebens head but he was too determined to keep her
out.  When that didn’t work, she turned to Ladon. 
    His thoughts were
full of both horror and anger.  But the problem was suddenly crystal clear. 
The dark mage had been drinking dragon blood and he had fed his dragon-fuelled
blood to Melisande to bind her, sexually.  Morgan lost the feeling in her legs
and would have fallen if Eben had not picked her up into his arms.  “Was she
raped?”  She whispered the abomination so that only the dragons would hear.
    “No.  I believe
his intent was to breed her.”
    “And you can’t
force a mage to bear children.”  She buried her face in Ebens neck and held on
tight.  Whatever the blood mage had intended to do to Melly it was more than
physical if he needed her consent to breed. 
    “Do you know whose
blood was used?”  Eben asked, his voice a cold northern wind. 
    “Not the specific
dragon but the house.  Yes.”  She looked pointedly at Ladon.  “It was blood
from the royal house of fire.”
    Ladon choked on
his shock, even as he prepared to roar his innocence.
    Easy young
one.  You forget that we are bound.  You could not keep such from me.
    But someone
from my house?  I can’t believe any would do this thing.
    We already know
you were betrayed to the humans.  Perhaps that is not the end of the traitor’s
crimes.
    Then the rest
of my family could be in danger.
    “Ryall.”  Eben
said finally.  “You will call the Council together.  There is much to be
disclosed and they must hear it first.”
    Ryall saluted a
fist against his chest and then the ever-silent warrior dragon was pulling his
mate behind him as they departed in a hurry.
    “What is it?” 
Melly said in an unsure voice behind them, Clare and Rhune both looking at
Morgan who was holding onto Eben like a child scared of the dark.  “What’s happening?”
    Pulling herself
together Morgan stepped from Ebens arms and took a deep breath.  She turned to
her brother and sisters.  “This is Eben Kinkaid and Prince Ladon.  They have
offered us sanctuary in Dracon away from the blood mages and the nullmags.”  She
drew another deep breath.  “They are my mates.”
    It was Rhune with
awe in his young voice that finally broke the shocked silence.  “You have two dragons?”
     

Chapter 9
    After spending
their whole lives in a place where magic was seen as an abomination, to
suddenly be in a place where the very air they breathed sparkled with it, was
heady stuff.  Within half an hour, everyone was enchanted clean, with a new
wardrobe and their own rooms in a dragons Forsaken castle. 
    Finally, Morgan
felt like she could breathe.  Her family was as safe as they could be.  If not
for the blood mage mark on Melly, the upcoming dragon council meeting to decide
the fate of mage kind and the still undiscovered traitor in Ladons family, it
would be perfect. 
    Both Clare and
Rhune had decided to sleep in Melly’s room for the night so they were all
cuddled up in a giant bed that was softer than anything they had ever slept on
before.  Morgan sat beside them her arm around Clares shoulder.
    “Can we really
stay here?”  Clare asked, her eyes going around the vast room in awe. 
Everywhere she looked her