As they prepared to address the flock, Josh stood beside Aria, the sun setting to their left, the two of them visible to the thousands of wyvern below. He and Alyson had taken a break in assisting the wounded. They stood at the base of the mountain where Josh, Alyson, and Threnody had encountered Harbinger O"Cataclysm, overlooking the jumbled block that remained from the ancient city of Fontaine. From this promontory, they could be seen by all.
Here in one place were nearly all the wyverns that lived among the three kingdoms. The only continental wyverns not present were those still enslaved in Aquitaine, perhaps a hundred of them, and the one wyvern who served the Queen of La Marche, a huge beast named Antiphony.
Earlier, Josh had looked out over them, had looked at the raw diamond in h
