The council had decided to send Edna back to Willard's settlement. They had gotten all the information they needed from her, so there was no need to keep holding her. Melena had bound Edna's dragon, and that was punishment enough. Edna was a shadow of herself, and Vladimir visited her before she left. Edna could not look him in the eye. She was angry that he did not protect her, and he thrashed her instead.
"You should be grateful this was all you got," he said, looking at his daughter with so much anger and regret.
"I should be grateful, father? Look at me. I cannot access my dragon half anymore until that b***h decides.." she began, and her father shut her up.
"If you do not understand the gravity of what you have done, then you are a lost cause." He said point-blank, and she looked a
