Aurelia:
“And then he just let you go?” I ask.
“Well, he made a grand show of it, telling everyone how he had tamed the ‘wild beast’ and that it meant he was the greatest of all time or something. Anyways after that, we made it here and I crashed because I still hadn’t healed completely.” Oryn finishes his story with a sigh. “Any other dragon might have taken offense to the show of disrespect but honestly I just felt bad. I could tell he was desperate.”
Oryn and I had moved to a room to rest. We were sitting in bed as he told me all that had happened in the New Republic. Although I felt he was leaving something out I didn’t pry too much. The Bellos delegation would be leaving near sundown so we had a few hours to ourselves.
“I feel bad, while you were out there suffering al
