"Don't tell me she is fine. She was bleeding and collapsed." Fin's jaw was tight. His eyes flickered gold and he didn't bother forcing them back. "I watched it happen and I FELT every second of it through our matebond."
He turned towards Aeron and Hyran. "I am standing on the wrong side of a closed portal. FIX. THAT."
Aeron opened his mouth to respond, but the sound that came from the stairwell made every person in the chamber turn.
It was a shriek. High-pitched, indignant, and followed immediately by the unmistakable scrape of claws against stone.
Queen Bellatrix descended the final steps into the underground chamber with Onyx draped across both of her arms like an oversized, scaly infant.
The baby dragon had grown noticeably since the last time Fin had seen him, and his tail curled around Bellatrix's waist in a way that suggested he was completely comfortable doing that and had absolutely no intention of ever being put down again.
