The sensation hit him before he'd fully processed what he was looking at, a lurch of the heart, the specific dread of prey that has been noticed by something it has no business being noticed by.
His pulse went irregular. He couldn't quite get a full breath.
That was from a single glance.
Terrifying, he thought.
And I was just sitting here thinking about hunting in this room. The Superbia was getting worse.
He pulled his gaze away and pretended he'd only looked for a second.
This was the first time a Fate Bond had failed to form. The first time he'd been in the same room as something genuinely beyond his reach.
Dragon lineage. In the IFSA archives, the dragon races held the distinction of being both the highest single-combat power ceiling of any documented species and the rarest currently living.
