Chapter 14After breakfast, Alec invited Eleuthereia to meet his family.
“Stay here, and I’ll fetch them. “I’m sure you’ll love them,” he bid her as she sat down in the grass beside his oak home.
She rolled her eyes at his nervousness. “I’m sure I’ll love them. They are my in-laws, and they are about to have a nest full of niblings.”
Alec’s heart pounded. “When will we know if we were successful?”
“It’s too soon. But don’t worry, Alec, this will work. Just believe.”
He shook his head nervously, and heard a splash behind him. Turning, he saw Arnath emerging from the water with a friendly wave.
A roar broke out behind him, and a massive griffin bounded into the shallows, charging in attack. It grabbed Arnath by the arm and with its razor-sharp beak and whipped the merman onto the land.
