Chapter 44: Akton
He should have heard the commotion himself, but Akton was too comfortable wedged between Talfryn and Lochlann to pay much attention to what was going on more than a few feet from him. He’d been so worked up about the upcoming confrontation, the likelihood he’d die, that only pressing close to the men he loved calmed him. And now that was being ripped from him in a sudden burst of chaos.
“Up,” said Wren, word a loud hiss. “Up now!”
Lochlann rolled away and got to his feet, and Akton sat up, nudging Talfryn as he went. Though Talfryn could sleep through just about anything, he woke when Akton prodded him.
It was then the noise came rushing to Akton, the smell. Fighting had broken out around Ylenia, the clang of metal, shouts and screams and the cries of dragons, driftin
