Nyra’s POVI landed like my bones had forgotten how to hold me. One moment, Seraphina’s wings were spread over the ruined square, battered and bright, her golden shape still burning against the smoke-filled sky. The next, the ground rushed up beneath us, cracked stone, ash, blood, broken banners, and the stunned faces of people who had watched Lucian fall. My claws hit first. Then the shift tore back through me. Dragon became flesh. Fire became breath. Wings folded into shoulders. Scales pulled close to my skin. My body shrank and changed until I stood in human form again, covered from neck to feet in golden scales that clung to me like living armour.I was not naked. I was not exposed. But I had never felt more stripped bare in my life. The fight had taken everything. My legs trembled. My chest burned. My injured side throbbed where Lucian’s claws and teeth had almost ended us in the sky. My throat tasted of golden fire and black smoke. My ears rang with the echo of his roar, Seraphi
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