The Pack's Dragon
“A moment that most would consider my greatest moment, the pinnacle of my power. It was not,’ she turned her head to look at him, and he saw as the light caught her eyes that they were as gold as coins. “You sleep in the time that is the pinnacle of my power, the pinnacle of my achievements.”
He was speaking to the goddess herself, he realized, and wondered who the woman was on the temple stairs, or whether in a dreamed memory the goddess could be in both places. His knees gave, and he knelt, bowing forward until his forehead touched the cool stone. “Forgive me. I did not know to whom I spoke. Forgive me.”
“There is nothing to forgive. Sit up, brave dragon. We are not strangers. I have heard