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Somehow his joyride reaction eased some of my terror. Maybe it was my competitive side, but if he could handle being snatched up by a dragon, I could deal with being stuck inside the monster. Couldn’t I?
    “Davis!” I tried to shout, but it came out as a roar similar to an alligator though less rough and more…musical. But unfortunately not in any kind of words that Davis would understand.
    “We will go to his lair.”
    Lair? Oh, Davis’s hotel. “ Not too close. I don’t want anyone to shoot us down.” Now that I thought about shootings…why wasn’t my behind throbbing? There was no pain at all now.
    “Shifting forms often heals injuries.”
    “Handy.”
    “Indeed.”
    My scaly half was chatty and full of information. That should prove useful for more than healing bullet wounds.
    Before I could ask her any of my thousands of questions, our body angled sharply toward the earth. Oh hell…
    I was not panicking. I was calm and cool and in control. Maybe not in control of my body or my situation, but I had control of my mind and, damn it, I wasn’t going to panic. A tip of wings revealed we were circling down into La Paz. The sun hovered on the brink of the horizon and threw the stone-and-adobe walls of the many buildings into high relief with deep shadows.
    Good Lord, the people were sure to see us. How could they miss a giant purple dragon? Maybe I should try L. Shannon
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    blending. Considering I was now the size of a damn plane, was blending even an option?
    “They will not see us. I come in from the setting sun and your shadows have hidden us from sight.” Shadows? Then I understood. The dragon was already using my blending. Much as I was glad to not be scaring the crap out of the locals, I also felt a little betrayed. It was my skill, the thing that had kept me alive and safe more times than I could count. Mine was now suddenly ours .
    As smooth as a butterfly, and bigger than a freaking elephant, we settled behind the Hotel Rosita. We set Davis back on his own feet and I wondered if he would bolt the moment the claws opened.
    He didn’t. Instead he stepped closer to my draconic body and seemed content to study me. To him I was probably as good as a Rosetta Stone.
    Much as it might disappoint Davis, now would be a good time to return to human form. If I could turn into a dragon I could surely turn back, right? I was more than ready to have control back in my very human hands.
    “I don’t wish to change back.” Whoa, baby! Everything that was me rebelled at the dragon’s thought. This was not going to happen. Not today. Not ever.
    “It’s time to change back,” I insisted. The dragon read my mind and knew my thoughts so I couldn’t even consider the possibility of not taking back control of this body that we currently seemed to share. “I’m not exactly sure what you are or what we’ve become. I don’t know if this is temporary or a permanent situation. What I do know is that I won’t be pushed around. I’m willing to share if you let me lead, but that’s the only option.” 28
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    “You cannot get free of me now that we are bound.” Okay…that sounded permanent, which made this moment of understanding even more important. She thought I was left with no choice, and in a way she was right. “I will cut your pretty pendant from my flesh before I’ll let you control me.”
    “Cutting the pendant away will do nothing but make you bleed.”
    I wasn’t sure if that was the truth. For some reason it sounded like my dragon half was guessing. “Then I will bleed. I bet if I bleed enough, you will die.”
    “So would you.” She sounded smug but I also heard a tiny hesitation.
    “Yes, but I will never again be the puppet for another being. I would rather kill us both than live in terror of someone else’s control.”
    There was a curious shifting in the body and mind we shared as she tried to understand my reasoning. “You would choose death before