19

Corey didn't return home that night. I was very lonely laying in the bed waiting for him to come back. Nights are cold when you lay alone, I wasn't used to being alone anymore. I had slept in a bed by myself back in my old tribe but I wasn't alone I always had people in the same hut. It's honestly been really hard for me to try and get used to this tribe and the environment, but I was starting to do it. Now I have dragons right outside my hut, I could have a family like I did when I was a small child and they could teach me everything my mom and uncle didn't get a chance to, but that means staying with them and potentially losing Corey. It means no more hybrids, no chance of ever seeing my tribe or my old friends again. It's risk everything and put myself in more danger for a group of dragons that won't ever really except me. I just don't fit in anywhere really, I'm a high percentage hybrid so I don't really fit in with other hybrids that are lower percentage and I don't fit with human or dragons either. No matter what I have to choose the best of the three options and I know that no matter how much I want to be with my brother, the best chance in doing so will be having him join this hybrid tribe. Otherwise I might lose my brother and the life human part of my life that I created over the years, I would need to change the person I have become and to an extent it's still something I will have to do here.

I know the dragons don't trust me though. No matter what happens if I don't have there trust my brother won't be able to help me if they decide I'm a threat because the two of us won't be strong enough to fight all of them. I just have to show I'm not a threat to them and maybe at some point it'll be enough for them to start trusting me.

I didn't sleep very well the entire night, I wanted Corey to be back and to feel him slip into bed and his arms around me. I was very out of sorts. There were to many things going through my head and to many smells since the dragons had arrived. I couldn't help but worry something happened to Corey since he hadn't returned yet. A part of me also wondered if he hadn't returned for a reason, maybe he was seeing someone else. After all I never slept with him and I guess I really didn't have any claim to him, I had been around for a few months and still hadn't even meant his father. I knew his mom wasn't around anymore so I won't ever meet her, but I hadn't even seen his dad. I had only been around at the main hut when he wasn't there and we had always left before he returned even at the festival all those month ago, wasn't at the tent and we left it before he returned to it.

I also know I might be over dramatic and overthinking all of it because I left everything I knew to come here with him. It's hard to think about him having someone else and being left somewhere that I don't really know the people and I'm not really excepted as one of them. This is what I decided to choose though, so now no matter what happens there is nothing I can do about it. I don't know my way back to the breeding grounds or my old tribe. This is my best chance now for survival, I know even as a high percentage hybrid I can't survive by myself. I will need others.

Corey returned home in the morning, the sun had already risen and I was up. I was outside when he came back. I had already went back to the village and collected more plants so I could start a garden near our hut that way we would have more food. I needed to be up early when it was cooler and the sun wasn't out as strongly. Corey didn't bring much food back to the house. He looked tired and he had his mid drift wrapped and I could smell the blood from him. I left the area I was using to grow a garden and I had used some of my abilities to make some of the plants start growing.

He looked concerned about the other huts and my growing our own garden. I left the garden to go to him and make sure he was ok. I helped him move the cow he brought home and then went inside the hut with him.

"What happened?"

"A herd charged, three are dead and two other are hurt. Why are there other huts?"

"My brother and his clan are here. I told them they could stay and I made them huts they can hunt with you, it'll provide both of us protect as no other dragons are going to dare attack knowing we are together. One less predator to deal with and I think most of the big cat or animals with good sense of smell will probably leave us alone as well."

"We will need to be careful, my fathers back around."

"Ok, I need you to lay down I'm going to heal."

Corey laid down on the bed and I unwrapped his bandages. I was wearing a half too and a skirt. I started healing him, but when I heal I take part of their wounds. Corey wasn't aware of that but I was from when I tried to heal my brother to took a little of his wound and heal a little of him. I have a scare from it on my stomach still. He had a deep wound and it was bruised all around it, he had taken a horn to his abdomen. It was right around the same spot as my current scare. I laid fabric over Coreys face. He didn't understand why, but he didn't really question it.

I used the grounds energy as I healed him, I knew I couldn't take all of it but I could make it so it wasn't as deep and that would be enough to only start the opening, if I took his entire injury it would reflect that on my own body, that's why healing can be dangerous. As you take part of it on yourself, but it always starts off with the less dangerous part on your own body while healing the most dangerous part on the other person.

I healed the parts that could cause internal damage and made it so it wasn't as deep then stopped. I took away his pain as well. One of the women from the clan that came with my brother brought in seaweed.

"I smelled the blood and figured you would need this, it'll help you both heal fast."

"Thank you." I said and smiled. She nodded her head and walk out of the hut. I put some on Corey and wrapped it then took the fabric I used to cover his eyes so I could wrap my own.

"Why are you hurt?"

"The same reason I already had a scare there. When you heal someone you take on their injury it's why I can't completely heal an injury that bad, it'll start off as healing the worst part of the other person but not do a lot of Damage to yourself as long as you only heal part of it. If I completely healed you I would take on the full injury, but I healed any part that could cause internal problem. It also isn't as deep anymore and I took away your pain for the time being."

"Megan, why would you heal me then. You knew it was going hurt you, and you didn't tell me. I wouldn't of let you of I knew that."

"It's why I didn't tell you. You're injury was deep Corey, if I didn't it would of cause internal problems and I could feel it had already caused internal bleeding but I fixed it, you would of probably died in the next few days if I hadn't. I know how much I can take because I can't turn off my pain receptors but I can take yours. Since I can feel it I know when to stop."

"Next time tell me, I should be able to choose if you are going to do something that might help me but hurt you."

"It's my body, I promise I know when to stop. I won't do something that I know will kill me or hurt me if it wasn't important."

"I have to go back soon, my father will be expecting me to be at the main hut not out here. You can come back if you want and meet him. We will be having a feast."

"I don't want to leave them, what if something happens."

"Meg, we are less then a 5 minute walk away from them. I promise if you feel anything is wrong I will get a horse and we will ride back immediately, it would be good for you to meet him and to be seen there celebrating as part of the tribe."

"Ok, I will let them know and I'll make sure they have food. We can go hunting with them tomorrow, because I don't think what you brought home will last very long trying feed 12, that would of been enough for the two of for about 4-5 day. I think I'll be gone by tomorrow though."

"I think you probably right so we will go back out tomorrow with them."

"Thank you." I said and kissed him.

"Well, I think you should probably change. I don't think I would like my father to meet you for the first time in that."

"What should I wear then?"

Corey smiled at me and went over and grabbed a two piece dress. It was red and off the shoulder and was a long one piece skirt with two slits through it in the front.

I smiled at him and took it and put it on. I did a French brain twisted bun, in my hair. It was a good way to keep my hair up so I don't feel so hot, but still look nice. We put a few small red wildflowers in the braided parts of my hair. I was happy to be apart of something and to have Corey and know I had him to myself.

I wasn't sure what to expect from his father. He didn't really ever talk about him other than he had slept with someone else while he was married to Coreys mother. Coreys mom was the head women, so his sibling were lucky they were ever claimed. I know his mom was alive for at least a few years of his life because I had heard it was her who made sure they were claimed making it so his sibling were claimed, meaning she was alive for her at least Liz's birth, Liz is about a two years younger than Corey and Sam.