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"You drank from him, didn’t you?" Dani called over her thickly feathered shoulder to Petra as they flew past a stand of teak that housed three of the Avian’s twenty-two nesting grounds

Avoiding her best friend’s s, Petra leaned forward and wrapped her arms around the hawk’s neck "Of course I did"

"Well, I hope you drained hi and sputtering and losing consciousness--"

"I get it, Dani," she shouted over the wind "You want hi with ire "Did he tell you how close he ca sex with me?"

"No, you told me, remember?" Petra returned

"Of course, for et hiet him as vulnerable as possible He’s a total ht I made sure he chose me"

This wasn’t a subject Petra felt all that comfortable with Especially a second ti, "So, if Sasha and Val were late or hadn’t shown up, were you actually going to--"

"Fuck hi appalled before she actually snorted "Hell to the no"

"You uy’s incredibly hot And the things he can do" What the hell a? She shook her head It felt like so her ue," Dani shouted

Heat flared in Petra’s cheeks "You can stop now"

Dani laughed "Fine, then His ic penis"

"Okay," Petra said, coae hoht before they would have hit the ground, and then started serpentining through the trees

Petra gripped the hawk’s feathers, her mouth dry as she panted with fear "That was unnecessary," she called through gritted teeth

"I don’t think so," Dani called back "You need your brain shaken up, reworked You’re talking about this guy being all hot and everything, and all I can think is he screwed ers, and couldn’t care less"

Petra winced Her best friend’s words cut deep As they were meant to "You knownow even if he wanted to"

The hawkhim?"

"No" And she wasn’t That would be insane That would lutton for punishment

"You totally are," Dani returned "Please tell me that blood you took from him didn’t shatter the reality of the here and now, and his major dickhood"

Jeez Sometimes Dani could be a major pain in the ass "Rest assured I haven’t suddenly become blind to reality But his blood did calm me down Madefor the ride"

"WellI suppose I alad of that" Dani was quiet for a lutely "He tried once already"

"What?" Dani cried, dropping about eight feet, ut fly up into her throat

"Christ, Dani! Pregnant back here"

"Sorry" She quickly leveled out

"He got burned, okay? Stepped right into the sun, trying to get pastand all that"

Dani snorted "Nice Wish I could’ve seen that"

"He’s not going anywhere Val and Sasha are standing guard inside the cabin"

"That should be interesting"

"Yeah"

"You hope he doesn’t go, don’t you?"

"What?" Then she sighed "Oh, Dani,sound at that, then started circling the waterfall below and the gathering stones beside it The stones that marked their borders, and that welcoirl," she called back "Before we land, I really need you to repeat after me"