Chapter 26
Lathwi stared at Liselle’s corpse, half-expecting it to get up again. When it remained motionless, she expelled the breath that she’d been holding and bowed her head. A thought came to her then, honey-thick with disapproval.
“You should not have risked the younglings. Shygyre is gone.” The ache in her heart swelled to dragon-sized dimensions, but she did not wish to appear weak in Taziem’s eyes, so she flashed her the mental equivalent of a shrug. “If I had not risked them, they would all be gone now. You know as well as I do that Galza had to be killed.”
“You could have tried to kill Her before the younglings charged,” Taziem countered.
Lathwi turned around to confront her mother. There were angry lights in the she-dragon’s eyes, but hints of curiosity as well. Such was the
