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He barely reacted to her presence.

"Ethan?" Taloni said.

The dragon made a small noise in its throat, but calling it a grunt would've been generous. He appeared to be halfway between awake and asleep.

"Ethan, I brought some food for you," Taloni set the bits of meat in front of him.

The dragon sniffed, and it looked like he tried to move his head, but he gave up rather quickly.

Taloni put a hand on the dragon and discovered his scales weren't nearly as warm as they had been the previous night. She focused all her senses on the dragon trying to get a sense for his health. It took some time, but she was able to see how he was doing.

It wasn't good.

His regular mana was completely exhausted and his deep mana was much lower than was healthy. It was slow, but his deep mana was being used to keep him alive and wasn't being replenished. The only good news was that his deep mana wasn't too depleted; she could use regular mana to help.

"I'm going to give you some of my mana," Taloni said.

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