KAIDA POV After Dray pulled me into his lap, I noticed his eyes had changed to the bright blue of Irad’s eyes. I could feel through our newly solidified bond that he was ready to lash out at Alessia even though she was not the problem, just the deliverer of crappy news. I let my instincts take hold, I placed my hands on either side of his face and tried to get him to look at me. “Let me calm Irad, and then Drayce will be more responsive,” Bedelia said to me. “OK, what do you want me to do?” I replied. “Give me control for a minute. Dragons have calls that mean different things, like mating, mourning and, as I will use in this instance, calming each other. Phoenixes have a similar thing for calming but in the form of a hum or song. I will combine them both along with increasing our