He sees within a fire the same,
A soul unbowed by blood or name.
And she, in him, the sky set free,
Not chained by kings, but destiny.
Skylar
I can’t get the image of that little red dragon out of my head. She was here, alive and breathing one minute, and the next she was gone. Forever.
‘Skylar, you have to understand …’ Yttyc begins.
‘No! I don’t have to understand anything, Yttyc. He killed her. That’s what I KNOW,’ I say, unwilling to hear anything else while I have the memory of her moving in her egg fresh in my mind and the smell if her death on my clothes.
He’s quiet after that, landing back at King Emmanuel’s castle.
“This isn’t where I need to go,” I tell him, softly. I don't want his help, but I need it if I'm going to get back into Kenneth's castle unseen.
‘Where do you
