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He asked me a lot of questions about my own past too, although he already knew a lot about it. He’d watched my entire life from the shadows, including during my childhood in the Water Realm, my time with the merchants and the bandits, and when I’d lived in Stoneham for the last few years. “I saw you once,” I said, one night over supper. “When I was fourteen.” “Ah, yes. I was making sure those merchants were looking after you.” “And if they weren’t?” He shrugged. “I would have found a new place for you.” “When I saw you, I was terrified. The only Dragon I’d seen until then had been Sark, and I worried you were looking for me so you could finish his job. I ran away the next morning.” “Yes, I remember. It took me some time to track you down again.” He sounded almost…proud. But his respo
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