"Hey," Itold him, "if you ever had a buttcrack full of sand, you would get it."
The dragon chuffed out loud with what I guessed was a water dragon laugh, and that warmed my soul. I couldn't believe I was sitting on a
beautiful beach with a sentient water dragon that I was somehow bonded to. Maybe I was actually dead and this was my heaven. That made a lot of
sense considering what I'd experienced in the past few weeks, to say the least. But there wouldn't be pain, injuries, and hangovers in heaven, would there?
"You are not dead," Ladonis intoned in my head, "you are very much alive, more alive than you have ever been. "
"Well, that was vague and mysterious as fuck," I grumbled back. The ancient dragon literally snorted with derision inside my brain.
"Nice of you to join us, by the way," I said sarcastically. "Is it time now to answer my questions?"
"Yes," the ancient dragon replied.
"Well, why now?" I couldn't help but ask. "Why now and not earlier this morning?"
