By fate or star or twist of thread, To Skylar’s path, this rider’s led. He meets the thief beneath the moon, A blade, a breath, a shadowed boon. Ryuki I hate that my dragon is talking to this woman. ‘She’s getting our egg and bringing it back to us, Ryuki. It’s not like she’s going to become my rider.’ ‘But you’re talking to her. Yttyc is talking to her.’ ‘We are the most powerful dragons here. She is helping us get our egg back. Perhaps next time you’d like me to drop you off outside the castle walls so YOU can collect the egg?’ he growls at me. ‘What is it about her?’ I ask angrily. Bynjym is quiet a moment. ‘I don’t know,’ he says softly. And that right there is what’s bothering me. No one seems to know how a woman, who isn’t even bonded to a dragon, can possibly speak to not

