CHAPTER SIX
From the sand Dax watched the mountain continue to rumble, but the explosion he’d been expecting never came. The whole island growled like an angry creature, belching smoke out into the sky from various craters sloping up toward the main caldera of the volcano. Giant plumes of gray blocked out the sun, but the heat and magma he’d hoped to see never reached the top.
Below his claws, however, heat radiated from within the earth. There would be no further explosion; at least not today. Mother Nature’s blood ran hot through her veins just below the thin crust of dirt where he stood.
In his true form, he connected with the earth on a level only his kind could understand. Born of flames themselves, Drakes were one with the volcanoes they inhabited, caring for them and nurturing th
