#TeaserTuesday: Would Have Been Romantic

 

I evilly can't wait for everyone to read some of the big reveals in this installment. 

Almost there! Just a couple more chapters. Today's teaser is a rare calm moment. 

Alfie wasn’t thrilled about toting a second passenger. She tolerated Rune, because Tessa loved him, and had stroked her face and assured her that he would be a gentleman. She even liked him, ordinarily, her affection a genuine ripple of pleasure through the bond when Rune scratched behind her frill or offered her a scrap of meat from his dinner. But the distribution of weight on her back was different. She didn’t struggle, per se—Tessa would have put her foot down about taking Rune along if the test flight had proved unsuccessful—but there was an adjustment period, when they first started climbing into the sky.

Now, morning officially underway, the sun a washed-out lemon wedge along the horizon, they’d reached altitude and Alfie didn’t have to flap her wings so hard. She conveyed her comfort to Tessa, and Tessa, sitting forward in the saddle, hair streaming back from her face beneath her helmet, finally began to relax.

The view was breathtaking.

Jagged, snow-capped peaks pierced a layer of cloud so thick and opaque it looked like a fluffy bearskin rug rolled across the earth. The air was frigid up this high, as cold as the height of winter in Aeretoll; it stung her cheeks, made her eyes water. She was glad of Rune’s arms warm and strong around her; the heat of his chest pressed tight to her back.

Had they not been riding to their certain doom, it would have been romantic.