Should Have Let Me Die

I frowned at him, and Mesh raised a now scaled and once again hairless eyebrow. Well, he looked fucking cool, but why was he turning less human now?

"What is…"

The words sounded different coming from his mouth, and he noticed, putting now clawed hands up to his face. After staring blankly at them for a bit, he gently touched his face to find that his face had extended out some, but not the same as when Mesh was just a Lizardfolk. No, now he looked like a dragon-kin or something like that.

"You look like a dragon-man now. Is this okay?"

"Is it okay?"

In response, Mesh threw his head back and let out an echoing roar, the scared all that were close back into alert. I even had to step back, but when Mesh brought his face down, I had never seen a more giant smile in my entire life, and with those sharp teeth, it was pretty menacing.

"Do you know what you have done for me? I am a lizard, a joke in the eyes of a dragon, and they refuse to acknowledge that we are even related. Now… you say those things back there are my wing?"

"Yeah, man, they look sick!"

"Sick?"

"Fuck, sorry! It means awesome or really great, just wait till the others see you walking around like this with me! Hell, I can't wait to walk around with you!"

I slapped him on the shoulder, and both of us laughed. Now, this was something out of a fantasy tabletop dream! A human goblin on one side and a half-dragon on my other side, this was pretty crazy.

What would happen next?

Who would be the next to evolve? Level up? Whatever it was, I didn't care, I was just excited, but I was starting to feel the day push down on me. I waved goodbye to Mesh and that I would talk to him in the morning after we were prepared to move out. There were some things I had to get in order to let Mesh step away from the small army.

All those things could wait till tomorrow, my brain was cooked and fried, but I saw Kadence standing far off to the side. She must have decided to wait for me; I wonder if she saw Mesh? I waved and smiled at her, and Kadence came to join me on the walk back to the House-Wagon.

The music had died down now, and the place was starting to clear up, with people heading back to their homes or wagons. I guess Alex found sleeping arrangements for the women we had rescued because I didn't see any of them left dancing, just some of the younger townsfolk.

"You're really amazing, you know that, right?"

"Huh?"

"You only speak normal words like the rest of us, but somehow you cast a spell on people. You make them rise up with your determination; both Buddy and Mesh are examples of this. You just talked to them and told them how you actually felt. It's just incredible, that's all."

Kadence took my arm and led me because I was left dumbstruck and speechless. I didn't think what I did was amazing; I just told them how it was. No point in getting worked up about it; they were the ones that changed; I only benefited from it.

'Look at you under crediting yourself. What for, don't play dumb, all this is your doing!' -Gripton.

'Stop it!'

'What?' -Gripton.

'Stop trying to blow my head up. This isn't all me, and you know it! I didn't want this, and I still don't know if what I'm doing is right, no matter what any of you say. None of it matters; I'm here, and I'm doing it, but I'm not becoming so lunatic that has people worshiping him. People will be real and live like normal in my eyes.'

'Well, I can see where you're coming from, but stop getting down on your self and take the compliments.' -Gripton.

'Yeah, I'll try.'

Kadence and I headed back to our place and then up to my room, but my bed was full when we got there. Mishka, Arrentia, and Nina were all spread out across my bed and each other. We both went in and put a blanket on the pile of girls and then snuck back out of the room, heading to Kadence's room.

When we got inside, it was warm, and I suddenly felt exhausted and was losing focus. Ugh, these days, we're starting to get to me. That extra four hours was beginning to pile up, but suddenly a hand was leading me to the bed and pulled my shirt off me.

Kadence had pulled the blanket back already. When had she done that? The brain was fuzzing hard, and the last thing I remembered was laying down and Kadence joining me. I drifted off as she pulled me in, and I slept long and hard, with no dreams.

The morning came, or afternoon, I didn't know, but I couldn't feel us moving, so it still had to be early. I was wrapped in Kadence's arms, so I turned to her.

Her eyes were still closed, but I could feel her legs stir, so I pressed my lips into hers. I slid my arms around her as she responded, and her own arms tightened around me as we kissed. We enjoyed some much-needed alone time and stayed in bed, just talking and laughing about little things.

Our time was ended when a knock came at the door. I groaned but called for whoever had knocked to enter.

It was Tescelle and Nuwari; both had smiles on their faces when I stepped out of bed with my pants still on.

"We are ready to leave, everyone and everything have been pack, and we can continue to the capital."

"Are there other options you could suggest?"

Both the girls look at each other with sighs of relief. What was that about?

"Yes, come up top, and we can show you."