He expected to feel searing agony as the dragon devoured him. He waited with closed eyes and tense muscles.
"Get to battle," someone said. "You do your people no good, standing here to watch them die."
Bodb cracked an eyelid. The dragon was precariously balanced on the wall. It looked at him with intelligence.
"You?" Bodb whispered.
"Never mind," the dragon said. "We'll talk later. I can't hold out against Aes much longer."
Then the dragon twisted back into the air, soaring over the ground. Dragons were presumed mostly gone. Yet, here was this dragon swooping down to burn anything in its path. It was there; a bit of old magic, a piece of Aes' mind real enough for the world to cower beneath.
Bodb shook his head to regain his senses. There would be enough time for speculation if he liv
