The drakkan’s powerful wings beat the air, carrying us away at incredible speed. Within seconds, Lukas and the others were out of sight, and I closed my eyes against the dizzying blur of the ground flying past a hundred feet below. I clung to the foot wrapped around me, terrified that any second it would open and send me falling to my death.
After a few minutes, I couldn’t take not knowing what was happening, and I opened my eyes. Beneath me, farms and green fields passed by, and a few people pointed up at us. It probably wasn’t a common sight for a drakkan to be carrying a person.
I didn’t want to think about what he intended to do with me when we got wherever we were going. He looked like Gus, but that didn’t mean he was Gus. And even if he was the drakkan I’d rescued, he had changed s
