Chapter 91: New Plan?!
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Fenna swallowed. "Then we don’t let anyone find out. Not guilds, not traders, not even healers, I got power to heal. We will never take Star to any healing centre. If we take him... the healer will find out. Hollowback Hatchkin stays on his cover."
Zephyr exhaled. "We’ll need to be smarter. Careful. No full power public battles unless absolutely necessary. No letting him breathe full flame."
Fenna reached out and ran fingers gently across Star’s warm flank. "We’ll protect him. Both of us. He’s ours."
Zephyr looked at her, eyes fierce with loyalty. "No one takes him. No matter what."
Muse lumbered closer, sniffed Star, then looked at Zephyr with an expression startlingly maternal—Your baby grew fast.
Zephyr chuckled despite tension. "Fine. Point made."
Light spilled fast now, turning basalt walls full golden. Fenna rummaged in her herb pouch for quick-boil root and set a kettle on the re-stoked coals. The smell of minty bark and leftover tiny piece of charfruit peel wafted, calming overtaxed nerves.
"Eat," she ordered. They split the last moss biscuits—food Muse hadn’t yet claimed—and chewed in thoughtful silence.
Aurora fluttered down to Star’s snout, poking him with her talon. When he didn’t stir, she chirped softer, pushed her little forehead against his scale. Warm glow haloed her down. She wasn’t worried; she sensed life pulsing strongly.
Fenna watched. "She wants to guard him until he wakes. How thoughtful."