Jason watched him with what sight he had left,smiling faintly. Even that was a struggle. He tried to spark some fire to life to open a portal as his brothers had done but it forced him to sputter a bit,coughing softly as his throat cracked more.

His eyebrows shoot up, and he jumps about a foot in the air, but he doesn't say anything. He knew that he had to distance himself from him, because if Mab found out that he loved a dragon...The best possible outcome was war. It hurt him to see Jason in so much pain, but he couldn't show it. It would probably be best if Jason went back to his own realm.

Jason looked down for a moment,then pushed his shattering shoulders back and let out a last spark of ice,forming into a soft elegant rose. He gingerly placed it down and then turned and opened a small portal,it wouldn't flicker out once he passed through but he went through anyway. It shivered,it would only stay open a moment. He stepped onto a cliff,it had the main portal to the dragon realm. The ground a rich orange and plants night black to dark lavender. He grabbed something gently from the bushes besides him,his shaking hands holding a small egg about the size of a soft ball and oval like. It was white with rainbow freckles all over it,sorta like how Jason's freckles had been,dancing with colors. He reached back and placed the egg gently by the rose,saying in a soft cracked voice. "Now you'll still take a dragon to your queen.Take care of Crysta." That was the name he had given the little female dragon human hybrid inside,Crysta.

"What? No! Mab will kill the tiny dragon. I'm not going to let that happen. Go get healed and then come back when you're strong enough. But hurry. Please."

"Heh...Ash...I can't....I can't heal....I'm dying,close to being dead....You need to take a dragon...." His body shook and his wings broke,going limp before parts cracked and fell off. He looked to the prince with gray eyes and a forced,but weak,smile. Similar to the first one he'd given him when they had met. "You just need to take a dragon...find another....Other than this egg,I'm the only multi-wing....there are better breeds out there..." He was about to continue when a broken coughing spasm slammed him,cracking his horns and sending parts falling off.Night black,shiny glass.

"No," he said firmly, pushing the egg back towards Jason. "I'm not taking a dragon unless it's you, and I'm not about to let this tiny egg never have a life."

Jason weakly held the egg to his chest,clearly he had taken care of it for a while and had feelings to it. "Why me?...I'm nothing but a useless hide of-"

"Don't say that. You are the exact opposite of that, all right? Just...go take care of yourself and the egg. Mab will be fine without a dragon."

"Ash..." He looked at him weakly. "You'll get in trouble..." The small creature wiggled in the egg,as if feeling how weak Jason was and trying to help with faint squeaks. She was due to hatch soon.

He shrugged. "I have before, and I'm the favorite, so it doesn't really matter. She'll probably just blame one of my brothers. Go and take care of yourself, all right?"