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The conference room filled with silence. No one spoke for several long minutes. The only sound was their heartbeats and breaths, which were mind-numbingly loud. Not one of their hearts beat with the serenity of calm. Each person in the room had a rapid heartbeat, one of worry and fright.
“Coming here?” Ellisar asked at last.
“Yes,” Zaviana said. “We need to ready your defenses. You’ve defeated them once, we need to do so again.”
“Defeated them? We’ve never taken the wrath of the entire Dragonia Empire. If they indeed have discovered where we are, they won’t have a mere ten dragonriders. They’ll have hundreds. We can’t defeat them.” Ellisar stood. “We barely defeated the ten dragonriders the last time!”
“But you did defeat them,” Zaviana retorted.
“We defeated them with our army …
