The First and the Last

I watch Lilia, or more correctly, her shifter. When I mentioned Mal repopulating the world with dragons, her eyes went unfocused.

“Lilia?” I ask quietly.

She turns and looks at me and the way she leans into me, I know this is still her shifter. My dragon feels the pull to this shifter, so I know that it’s her that I’m mated to, but Lilia is part of her, just as I am part of the dragon inside me no