The Dragon's Precious Gem
His rancid breath that had brushed her skin, and those yellowed teeth, sharp and crooked, remained etched in her memory.
The newly-built estate where she now stood, deep within the desert’s unforgiving sands, was vast and imposing. A mansion that belonged to Malcom Dunsmore, an aging, corpulent man who had purchased her like a piece of property. He had dared to build the estate on tribal lands, where legends whispered of magical beings on the descendants of monsters, but Dunsmore held no fear of the natives or their fables. His wealth made him untouchable, or so he believed. It was to this mansion that Caelia had been dragged earlier that day, sold like livestock to the highest bidder.
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