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cautious tone.
    Jaguin glanced at her with a wary expression. “My dragon and myself,” he replied in a slower tone of voice. “It feeds off of the essence that makes our forms possible.”
    He stopped several feet ahead of Sara when he realized that she was no longer walking beside him, but staring at him in wary disbelief. He moved from one foot to the other, stepping to one side when several warriors passed by. He didn’t miss the way they looked at Sara, nor did he miss the way she shuddered and jerked to the side. Her eyes followed the warriors with dark distrust and more than a hint of fear.
    “Dragons…,” she whispered, still watching the other men until they disappeared around the corner at the end of the corridor. Only when they were no longer in sight did she turn back to him. “What… do you mean by you and your dragon?” She asked in a husky tone.
    Jaguin’s gaze softened. He could see the distress she was feeling reflected in her light brown eyes even though she was trying to hide it from him. He also saw a hint of curiosity.
    “A Valdier warrior is made up of three parts; my two-legged form such as I am now, my dragon which I can shift into, and my symbiot which we both wear for protection,” he replied, pointing to the band around his thick forearm. “It connects us as one.”
     
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    Sara’s eyes widened and her lips parted when she felt a wave of warmth spread out from the matching cuffs around her wrists and the necklace she was wearing. A shadowy image of a dragon appeared in her mind. It was the color of silver with darker threads of green mixed in. Its golden eyes held a dark, red flame that seemed to dare her to look deeper.
    Shocked, Sara shook her head to clear the vision. She blinked several times before the long corridor of the ship came back into view. A part of her felt like she was trapped in some type of alternate-reality show. Bowing her head, she drew in several deep, calming breaths. She focused her gaze on the tips of her boots.
    “Focus,” she whispered, staring at the dark brown tips. “You can do this. You’ve been through worse. You can do this.”
    She started when she felt a warm touch to her chin. Biting her lip, she tried to hide the fear threatening to send her into a panic attack. She reluctantly looked up and stared into Jaguin’s warm, gold-colored eyes.
    “You can do anything you want, Sara,” he murmured, gently stroking her chin with the pad of his thumb.
    “As long as it doesn’t involve me returning home,” she responded in a husky tone.
    “As long as it does not involve you returning to your world,” he reluctantly agreed.
    Sara’s eyelashes lowered and she pulled her chin away. She didn’t want to focus on the confusion his touch caused. She would do that when she was alone later. For right now, she decided the best thing to do was to allow her analytical side free rein. If she kept her attention on the science, she wouldn’t have to deal with her emotional side or the overwhelming feeling of panic threatening to engulf her in its traitorous grip.
    “What part of the ship are you going to show me besides the corridor?” She asked.
    “There is only one section for now. I’m afraid I do not have much time before I must report for duty, but I thought I would show you a special place that you might enjoy visiting. It will give you some place other than the medical unit to explore,” he explained with a wave of his hand.
    Sara turned her head away from him when the sound of his husky voice swept over her, sending a shiver of warmth through her. She didn’t understand what it was about him that made her respond this way. Her first thought was Stockholm Syndrome; where a captive felt an attraction to her captor.
    That theory didn’t work either, though. Jaguin wasn’t exactly holding her prisoner. She knew if it hadn’t been for him, Carmen and the others, she and Emma would be dead now. It still didn’t solve the problem that she