10 Caden was up before the sun rose. The sound of flapping wings had woken him. Not that he’d been in a deep sleep, anyway. His dreams had been dark and kept him from being able to rest. He stretched his muscles and trekked across the camp, heading to Lireth’s usual spot. It surprised him to see that she had returned with more than a few dragons. There were a dozen of the creatures, most of them as ebon scaled as she was, but there were four exceptions. Two green dragons, a blue, and a white. The green ones were thick and bulky, but they weren’t as large as Lireth. The white one was the smallest of them all but looked just as fierce. Of them all, the blue one caught his attention the most. It was the largest of the newcomers, dwarfing the green duo. Many of the scales on its face were c

