Kai
I didn't wait for the gates to open, bounding up the ladder and then jumping off the wall on the other side. I saw the two dragons then. They flew over the wall.
“ARCHERS. HOLD,” Eli shouted.
Hold? Hold?
Shoot them down, I linked Eli.
They are going to speak with Mama, was his reply.
I was blood drunk on my grief. Lucien and Thorin were working in tandem, cornering a bear. I leapt, grabbing his neck until I tasted his blood in my mouth. I shook my head viciously until he was nearly decapitated.
“Kai. Enough,” Lucien said.
I dropped the bear and bounded further into the battle, thirsty for more. Mama Zapada’s face flashed before me. Her kind eyes, her soft smile. She’d had more of a hand in raising me than Mama, who had been away with Baba at war. And now Mama spoke with the
