Chapter 14
Khollaran sat alone in his chambers, scrolls mounded around him and the ever-present mirrorstone gateway smooth and silent on the wall. It was a reminder of the magic that locked him in his prison nearly an eon ago, but the Watchers long ago abandoned their vigil, and the Dark Wizard had grown strong again over the following centuries.
"Master?" The voice was that of the mighty dragon, Gurkinshka. "You wished to see me?"
The dragon was Khollaran's greatest prize to date. He discovered the egg, lost long ago in the depths of the caverns, and painstakingly hatched it using intricate spells recovered from the ruins of the library at Al-Fikri. The Lesser Wizards of the First Age kept many writings about dragons in Ramon Tor, and those who kept scholarship in Al-Fikri copied the m
