Chapter Nineteen
The easier way
We didn’t even walk that far. Maybe Avianna was wrong. The tunnel was enormous, so it was possible that a real fully-grown dragon could fit in here. I decided to walk ahead, with Idris behind me. No one ever mentioned a dragon, but this made sense. The Dark Ones must have stationed the beast here to guard the passage.
I stopped and turned around, facing Idris.
“Avianna is saying that there’s dragon ahead, a real one,” I whispered. It was difficult to read Idris’s expression in the darkness, but I imagined he wasn’t expecting to hear that.
“Why didn’t you tell me you became a Dark One? That i***t, Baxley, was trying to spellbind me, but he couldn’t. We didn’t have a connection,” the baby dragon complained.
“The warlock’s spell messed with our bond. You
