An hour had passed from what Noah counted and they were still deep underground tracking down Storm. Now entirely with Ivy's help, since Storm left nothing to work with and Noah couldn't really sense him. It felt like their connection was disjointed. Not even domain travel would work, not from the get go after he went AWOL.
"That's new," Noah muttered, trying again. He reached for the domain link, the thread he could usually follow to any bonded dragon no matter how far they'd wandered, and felt it slide off something instead of catching. Like trying to grab smoke. "I can't even feel where you are, you reckless idiot."
Ivy grunted beside him, low and quiet, the closest thing to agreement she had.
"You think he's hiding from me," Noah said. "Or something's hiding him."
