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grandmother today?”
    Amber shook her head. “No. I’ll see him all night. I don’t need to sneak him into my room to see him.”
    “I’ve had enough. You can make do with what you’ve got on you. We’re going.” Donna reached out, grabbing hold of Amber’s wrist.
    She pulled away from her mother, taking several steps back. “Kade won’t let me hurt you. Everything that’s crazy is far too real.” Letting the panther escape, she changed in front of everyone, her anger forcing a roar from her.

Chapter Six
    Donna screamed and fainted. Gary caught her and Helen screeched, “I knew it. I knew it. Dragon Mage. Traitor!”
    Amber’s muscles bunched and she prepared to spring at Helen.
    Kade stepped in front of her. “Amber. You don’t really want to do that. Change back.”
    Amber snarled, closing the gap between them.
    “Amber.” Kade crouched in front of her, reaching out a hand, stopping centimetres away.
    She tried to push the panther back, but anger kept her from changing. Anger and the instinct to attack those who threatened her. Moving slightly, her gaze arrowed in on Helen. A menacing growl emerged from her.
    “I thought it was a dream. A nightmare.” Sitting on the floor, Donna leaned against Gary.
    Amber turned her head in Donna’s direction when she spoke.
    Donna struggled to her feet. “We’re going back to the city. Immediately.”
    Amber snarled, growling at Kade when he moved between her and her mother. No one was forcing her anywhere.
    Helen laughed, a bitter, mocking sound. “Too late for that. Nothing can fix her but death. Unless someone kills her, she’ll well and truly see this century out.”
    Amber snarled at Helen. She wasn’t about to let anyone kill her, especially not her own grandmother.
    Kade moved again, trying to draw her attention away from Helen. “Amber. Change. Please. I can’t change in front of everyone to stop you attacking them.”
    She fought against instinct and with one last snarl, changed back, pushing past Kade to face Helen. “How many dragons have you killed?”
    “Two.”
    “What did they do that you killed them?”
    “We found them.”
    “So they did nothing.” Her hands curled into fists and she struggled against becoming a panther again.
    “They’re dragons.” Helen sounded like she spoke of a mass murderer.
    “Dragons aren’t real.” Donna’s tone was pleading.
    Amber continued to stare at Helen. “What about Dragon Mages? Have you killed any of them?”
    “There’s always a first time for everything.”
    Amber wanted to wipe Helen’s smug expression off her face by telling her that both her grandchildren were Dragon Mages. But it wasn’t her secret to tell. “You’d kill your own flesh and blood even though they’d done nothing to you.” Behind her she heard Gary try and calm her mother.
    “I can’t believe they’re making mages again. I would have thought that after the last time they wouldn’t have bothered.”
    “Last time?” Amber asked.
    At the same time, Kade asked Amber,
“What is your grandmother talking about?”
    “When the Knights convinced the mages that they didn’t need to be ruled by dragons. The mages took it too far. The Knights had to hunt them down and kill them too.”
    “When was this?” Amber demanded.
    “The witch hunts of the Middle Ages.”
    Amber couldn’t stop looking for some sign that her grandmother didn’t mean everything she’d threatened. The hard look in her eyes and the compressed line of her lips made Amber believe she meant every single word. She guessed it wasn’t only dragons that were bloodthirsty. “The Knights killed humans.” Her words were flat, sounding more like a statement, even though she wanted her grandmother to confirm it.
    “You’re not human anymore. You’re a Dragon Mage. You’ll always be a Dragon Mage.”
    Amber held back the flow of angry words she wanted to spill. Behind her Gary continued to try and calm Donna. Amber barely stopped herself from