Gideon “Are you insane?” demanded Nathaniel while I stood with my back against the door. I’ve never seen this woman before. She was crouched in front of Drakania, so I couldn't see her face when I walked in. At first I thought she might have been Ember, her long red hair tumbling down her shoulders in a similar way, but when she looked at me all I saw was a pair of white opal eyes glaring at me. They were like all dragonborn, perfectly polished stone, except the stone held no pupil. It was as if they were placed there by a master jeweler. It was even more unsettling that her skin was as pale as a ghost. She looked dead. Empty and dead. And judging on how close she was standing to Nathaniel, I was the only one who saw her. Which meant she was not on the same plane as us. “So you m

