Egg rolled her eyes and sagged in the woman’s grip. ‘Honestly, Teyo. I get past eight guards in my human shape and you two get yourselves caught, and me, within five minutes? So much for your amazing draykon powers.’
‘That’s the last of us,’ Teyo volunteered, and wondered at himself. ‘And we aren’t working for Ylona. We’re working for the LHB.’
He shut his mouth abruptly, and frowned. Egg stared at him with a what are you doing?! expression, but he couldn’t help it. It was that damned compulsion again, although this was much more subtle than anything he’d experienced before. He hadn’t even noticed her doing it until his mouth had opened and all manner of things had fallen out.
‘What is this “LHB”? enquired the woman.
‘The Lokant Heritage Bureau. Actually, it’s called the Lokant Heritag
