042: Trust

[Daax]

I must not have heard Orion correctly. Because if I did, I'm not sure what I am going to tell his mother.

She's likely to kill us both. Me for telling her to trust his judgment, and him for doing something so stupid.

"Orion," I place a gentle hand on his shoulder. He has just taken a big step as a drake, and if I do not tread lightly, both Ona and I could lose him forever if I handle this incorrectly. "She said she was who?"

"My cousin, Father," his face is flush with embarrassment, torn between expressions of sadness and pain. "Princess Juliana."

Tritus' daughter. Tritus Majere. Ona's half-brother and the drake who sold our family to his brother Segundus over and over again. He was a talented genius with more brains than honor and if his daughter is half of what he was, she can't be trusted to be anything but calculating and cruel.

To make matters even more complicated, Orion shot a lightning bolt through Tritus' heart to save his mother and me because he had us and our peo