Chapter Sixteen: Daerius

“They said ‘the dragon is back’,” Lyza tells me, a smile on her lips.

“Wait they know you?” I ask and she nods.

“I kind of forgot to tell you that I lived with them for over a year, that’s how I know so much about them,” she mutters. My eyes widen in surprise.

“Seriously?”

“Yeah. Now they will want us to come with them, which will add a few days onto our trip but if we refuse, they might kill us.”

“I think we can go with them,” I shrug. She turns to the shadows and says something in a foreign tongue.

The shadows make strange hissing noises then turn back towards the mountain.

“Just follow them,” Lyza says. We start walking up the mountain and I glance back at Angel whose eyes are wide with con