Why are there dragons at all? I thought they all died when Hoyal died.
A few survived. They were immune to whatever killed the others when Hoyal died. They multiplied and now here we are.
You have to run out of there, thought Assa. You’ll die if you stay.
Assa, said Dusk, we can’t leave. We’re trapped. Come get us. Kill the dragons if you have to.
Assa didn’t know how to do that. There were too many dragons. They must have been multiplying with enormous energy.
As she looked at the palace, shrouded in smoke, she saw some of the dragons spiraling up into the air. Their calls screeched across the sky. Some of them flew out to the ocean and dove into the water and came back up with fish in their talons. The fish writhed in their death throes as the dragons took them back to the other dra
