Why? The question consumed him. Why had this happened? He had been happy; now every step he took was one step closer to his fate.
Unbonded sovereign dragons were blessed with longevity stemming from their timemagic. They could heal most physical wounds and they were immune to the base magics. They weren’t easily killed—and without emotions, they didn’t have the capacity to fret over death the way humans did.
When Thorion had bonded, he had become mortal. With death lurking on the horizon, mortality was now a terrifying concept.
A week had passed since they’d parted from Fletcher and Roxanne. As they continued west, Keriya asked what the unicorn’s advice had meant and what Valerion had done. Thorion refused to tell her, going so far as to cloak his mind to shut her out. This visibly hurt
