“I am the child of crown and flame, Yet not my father’s cruel acclaim. He steals what none should ever own, I bring the lost ones safely home.” Ryuki My dragon is many things; he’s intelligent, cunning, sarcastic, annoying, flirtatious, powerful, and fierce. But I’ve never known my dragon to recoil in the face of someone else’s anger. Until now. Yes, Skylar was beating on him after he crushed the egg. I didn’t see it. I wasn’t close enough to him to see what he was doing. But from the feelings I got from Bynjym, I knew the little dragon was suffering and he was doing what needed to be done to put her out of her misery. But it wasn’t Skylar’s fists that made my big, powerful dragon flinch. It was her words, her unwillingness to even hear his reasoning behind what he did. I watch Ytty

