Shifty Business
The fog billowed around the man standing across from Nya. Slate, he’d said his name was. With the glint of the moon radiating off of the thin veil of wispy white, he looked even more sinister than before. She stared at him, not sure how to address what he’d said. Once her mouth was working again, she asked, “Did you say… you are the dragon?”
He nodded. One single bob of his head, nothing more.
“But… that’s impossible.” What did he take her for? Some sort of a fool? An i***t. “You’re not a dragon! You’re a person! Obviously.”
He snickered at her, his perfect lips pulling up into a snide smile. “At the moment, that’s true. But I can be a dragon again any time I’d like. Nya, I’m a shifter.”
Her eyebrows shot up as again she tried to process what he was telling her. That w
