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quickly casts a healing spell and I wince as my skin knits back together. 
    It takes no time for his body to fully shift into dragon form and before I know it he’s got me wrapped in his talons and I start to slip back into unconsciousness. I fight to stay awake, but my eyelids are so heavy. Glass shatters and I’m enveloped in hot desert air as I fade away into the blackness once more.

Chapter Six
     
     
    There is something rigid wrapped around my waist. Warmth envelops one half of my body, a stark contrast to the chill on the other and the wind is blowing through my hair. My cheek is pressed against a flat surface as my eyelids flutter open to blinding light.
    “Asher?” My voice is hoarse and strained.
    His black dragon eyes stare down at me. “Are you alright?” he asks, slowing his flight and sinking lower.
    “I think so.” My eyes focus on a distinctly dragon shaped shadow falling on the bustling city street below us. Shit. “How long have I been unconscious?”
    “Only for a few minutes,” he replies, hugging my body tighter against his massive chest. “I think. I hope. I don’t actually know for sure.” He sounds panicked.
    “Did you shift on purpose back there?” I say. Asher just pumps his wings harder and soars a little higher. “Ash? Did you do that on purpose? Could you control it?”
    “No!” he finally growls as I start to ask him again. “I saw you fall, I felt you slip away again and I just… I reacted. I had to get you out of there. Away from them.”
    “Did you hurt anyone?”
    “I don’t think so.”
    “We need to go back to the Council and figure out what went wrong.”
    “No, we don’t.” His dismissive laugh rumbles through his chest, making my body tremble.
    “Asher-”
    “Lindy, I said no,” he interrupts me. “Stop being difficult.”
    Getting ordered around in real life isn’t nearly as hot as it is in Dreamworld. Despite his obvious and justified anxiety, my cheeks flush in frustration and an unfamiliar defiance threatens to twist the words sitting on my tongue into something nasty. This will really spiral out of control if we both start barking orders at each other.
    “Asher…” I say calmly. “It’s broad daylight out here. You can’t just fly around a human city like this.”
    “Watch me.”
    Oh my God, I’m going to strangle him once his neck is small enough for me to wrap my arms around. “Humans aren’t defenseless Asher. They have technology that rivals the most powerful combat spells and can shoot us out of the sky. Not to mention the panic you could cause. You’re going to give someone a heart attack, there are a lot of old people in-”
    “Melinda!” he roars, closing his fist tighter around my waist.
    “Stop interrupting me,” I insist.
    “Stop arguing with me.”
    We both let out an exasperated breath, but hold our tongues. “So where are you taking me then?”
    A box truck’s horn blares beneath us as it slams into a suddenly stopped car, making Asher jerk and grab me harder. I’m going to pop if he keeps doing that. “I’m taking you somewhere that makes sense to me,” he answers quietly, his attention fixed on the arguing drivers that are somehow oblivious to our presence.
    “This place wouldn’t happen to be in the middle of a desert, would it?”
    “Maybe. Hopefully . Everything used to be in the middle of the desert because that’s all there was.”
    I should really cut him some slack. He has to be so overwhelmed. Visiting the Council right away was a mistake, I should have let him get his bearing first. “Ash, I’m thirsty. I need water. Maybe some food. Please just land.”
    Asher inhales raggedly. “That’s all you had to say, Lindy.”
    “I’ll keep that in mind.” My head spins as I search for a decent place to land. There are people everywhere. “See that white building over there, surrounded by those black patches with the white lines?” I say, describing an outdoor mall and parking lots. Ash grumbles