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Tell me why you think he wants to hurt you?”
    “I already told you! He sent me two messages this morning saying I’m going to kill you, you little dragon wizard. I can hear them in my head as clearly as I can hear you now.”
    Zedock shook his head. “Well, if that’s the case maybe you should kill him before he kills you.”
    “Zedock!” Ella scolded.
    “Why shouldn’t Ash kill him first if he wants to kill us? Ella, we’re talking about survival here. If it’s kill or be killed, I say kill, kill, kill!”
    “But I don’t know how to kill him!” Ash screamed.
    Ella found it difficult to find the right words. “Ash, why don’t you just turn him into a bird or a tree or something?”
    Ash considered it. “Maybe that would work but remember that he’s a wizard too and full of magical energy. I still think we should run away.”
    “We’re dragons not chickens,” said Zedock. “We’re not going to run and hide; besides others will want to help too.”
    Ella thought about that and didn’t think anyone would want to battle a grey dragon, and a grey dragon that was a wizard! “Ash honey I think you’d best work on the most powerful protection spell that you can come up with. Zedock, no one is going to go up against a grey dragon.”
    Zedock shook his head, not knowing what to say. It didn’t sound good. “Oh.”
    Ash was so good looking, a combination of cute and handsome. Everyone watched as he cocked his head as he went into himself. “Oh no!” said Ash. “He knows where we are! He’s on his way here!”
    “It’s been nice knowing all of you,” said Cinder-Ella.

NINE
    ALEXA FASTENED ABBEY TO HER BACK with two leather belts and then headed for the stables to retrieve her big black stallion, checking the saddle to make sure it was properly secured. A young stable hand with a goatee was warned not to tell anyone or else, and he nodded to show that he understood. Botrin had seen Alexa fight and was frightened of her even though he was pretty good with a sword himself. If the king asked he guessed that he would probably have to tell, for the king stood a lot higher up than a female knight, king’s daughter or not.
    Alexa knew it was dangerous to take the baby with her but with Marcus and his uncontrollable magic she didn’t want to return to find Abbey turned into an inanimate object with no way to change her back.
    The baby thought that it was funny being attached to her mother’s back, even more so as the horse commenced to trot, nothing quite like a baby’s laugh. Abbey’s laughter made Alexa laugh as well; bouncing up and down was great fun, almost as fun as being a donkey. Alexa picked up Stone’s trail just outside the kingdom and as she started to follow it she hoped he was okay, but in a land of magic one could run into just about anything. She thought if Marcus had been further along in his training she would have taken him with her but currently he might actually be more dangerous than anything she would run into. She knew where Stone was heading but decided to keep an eye on the tracks just to make sure that he hadn’t deviated from his destination, although she didn’t know why he would. Alexa always had eyes for Stone and he had felt the same for her, but friendship had kept them apart for years; friendship and the fact that she was a princess and Stone was a knight. She had felt his eyes on her many times, occasionally showing him appreciative smiles.
    “We go, mummy?” Abbey asked in a bouncy voice.
    “We’re going to find your father.” Adorok had appeared and informed her that Stone was in grave danger. The knight decided to take things into her own hands, being as stubborn as she was beautiful she had decided to do it by herself, besides it was too soon to send out other knights in search of Stone. She thought she would be stealthier by herself and maybe even more efficient dependent upon what sort of trouble he had gotten himself into.
    Abbey laughed as the horse ran