The Mage's Heart
He flicked his wings as he settled them against his back, and he puffed smoke and flame as warning to the villagers that still battled the fire.
He paced before me, restlessly, shaking his wings and flicking his scales, as if my voice were water and he tried to shed it, like a duck, cleansing itself in a stream. The purple eyes within the square-set face were suspicious, canny, and burning with desire. I hoped Rivyn knew what he was about, and he would not leave me to be ravished by the dragon, for I felt that without his interference, my protestations might be drowned under the river of this other’s needs.
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