Avi watched as he left. Flying on dragons, like in the tales of old with made-up warriors who somehow conquered beasts far greater than they. Laughable. Humans were pathetic. The blood of the lamassu was sadly limited when shelled in their bodies, but they were the ones that the power preferred most to reside in. In any case, only humans would dare to mate with anyone who carried the blood, the heritage. The other, elder races all knew better. They could sense it from afar, knew instinctively that the lamassu were nothing to meddle with.
The humans had no such awareness. They couldn't sense it at all, not even in themselves until it was too late and already changing them. Like herself. Like the others who had similar stories of growing up the child of a half-breed, then growing inevitabl
