He paused, shocked by the reversed answer he had thought he would get.
Their core? What was that?
He thought it would be their scales.
Darius gave him a smile that told him he knew what he was thinking, but then a serious look pulled up his face.
"A dragon's scale is one thing that holds lesser importance to dragons... than to humans. To dragons, their scales represent their form of beauty, strength, valor, an impenetrable mask worn over their entirety. It was important to dragons but not so much as it was to humans." Darius faced him wholely, as if directing his next words directly to him. "To humans... it was their biggest drive of greed. Their biggest source of wealth."
Those words sparked a reaction in his chest. His heart growing heavy from the truth he really didn't want to li
