Chapter Fourteen
The job offer
Avianna was scared about our return and I didn’t know what to say in order to make her feel better. Staying here or going back—either option was dangerous. At the same time, I felt like the wardens in Draconia could help me. I still knew people there that I could trust.
“We must go back. We don’t know what will happen once you hatch out. I think it’s too dangerous to stay here,” I finally said. I had weighed both options over the past two days and made up my mind.
“Fran, are you all right? Are you even listening to me?” Nicolas’s voice pulled me away from my thoughts. I really needed to stop doing this, but it was difficult to be focused on Avianna and talk to everyone else at the same time.
Aly made an early lunch and then she must have left me alone wi
