A Luna for the Lycan King
he said at last, “the old ones frightened us with stories about the First. The dragons from before. Before the kingdoms. Before the split. Before, the stories said, the gods troubled themselves with us at all. They were stories that I wished I had paid better attention to.”
Thorin walked to the cold ring of scorch while Heath gathered grit and scale-dust into sample cloths. He crouched and laid his bare palm flat in the middle of the frost-bleeding stone, where it must have burned him with cold, and he did not move it. His eyes kindled slowly to their molten glow. “She was scared here,” he said, reading the rope, reading the stone, reading whatever a bond reads. “But she was brave here too.
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