28 Lilianya awoke with a start. She was lying facedown on the ground, atop a pile of wyvern scales. Her eyes widened as she remembered the previous night. She clutched the scales in her hands and her eyes glistened with hope. Her mission, her task into the wilderness, had been completed. Lilianya always prided herself on doing a good job for the resistance, but most of her missions had been more reconnaissance than anything else. She was the one to direct Devarius and Paedyn to the resistance, and that turned out to be a great accomplishment with them finding wyverns and restoring hope to the entire resistance. Other than that, she was rather unnoticed, with Devarius and Paedyn being the real heroes. She was never really thanked or praised for leading them there. At the time, she’d had h

