“What do you mean she disappeared?” The Pendragon’s voice echoed through the hall. Dexter edged closer to the door of the Pendragon’s chambers, pressing himself against the wall so he could peer around the corner. “You had Emilia in your sights, and she simply disappeared? Tendicanis,” the Pendragon said. The Dragon who had run through the halls only an hour before, telling everyone he had finally caught a glimpse of Emilia, screamed. “You are not fit to be called a Dragon. Volucris calyculus somnerri―” The acrid stench of burning flesh reached Dexter’s nostrils. The Pendragon was burning away the man’s dragon tattoo. “Bring me the little Gray bird!” the Pendragon shouted. Dexter raced down the corridor to a c***k in the rock barely wide enough for him to squeeze into. “Conformare,

