Isle of the Dragons:
A month earlier
The Time-Space hoop worked differently this time. Instead of dropping through a narrow tunnel, there was a dizzying perception that the world around him was turning backward on its axis. Ashure felt like he was being ripped in two. He saw a shadow of his former self standing in the Time-Space hoop in the village before he turned to dust. At one point he crossed the same thread of time and saw Drago, Orion, and himself passing through the portal.
The spinning slowed as he approached Drago’s castle. He was suddenly thrust forward when he reached the point where he and Orion were waiting for Drago to return from his hoard. He sucked in a breath when he merged with his previous self in the great hall of the Dragon’s Palace.
“Ashure, Theron said you were
