One minute, I was cooing at the baby dragon, the blue one, and the next, she screeched and fell over dead. I was still trying to figure out what happened when I heard the terrible screeching from the red dragons. Then both of them fell to the ground and blood began pouring out of their eyes.
I tried. I tried to save them, I kept pushing my healing into them, I pulled on the earth, begging the Earth Mother to save them. It wasn’t until Avani grabbed me that I realized there was nothing more that I could do.
I’m clinging to him, sobbing at the senseless loss, when I hear heavy paws and wings whooshing into the building.
“What happened?” Kayid says.
Avani doesn’t let me go, but I feel him turn to them.
“The Chief. This is what happened to that dragon at the arena. He killed them. We nee
