Noah was heading back to the pass when Shade's blast came at him from the left.
Not aimed at him. Aimed at the dragon that had been tracking his descent from above, a black scaled Arthur dragon that had locked onto the moving shape dropping through the cloud layer and had made the reasonable assumption that anything falling that fast from that direction was worth intercepting. Shade had seen it before Noah had and the corroding burst that came from the black dragon's mouth caught Arthur's dragon across the wing joint and the animal peeled away from the pursuit with its membrane dissolving at the edges.
Noah went through the dissipating mist of it and kept falling.
