The Pack's Dragon
“Yes. Along the ley lines the reach across the aether is shorter, and our call stronger, and so they answer and gather.”
“Is that wise, to bring them to one spot?” Samuel frowned, his instincts as a dragon guardian of the bloodlines momentarily superseding the awe of being in her presence. “It makes them easier to kill.”
“Not all are called. Only those who have a role to play now. The bloodlines are more than the tethers which bind us to this world, brave dragon,” she strolled around the circular fountain, the fish drawn along by her fingertips, the water rippling with their movements between the leaves, flowers, and roots of the lotus. “They have another function.”