Cedric doesn’t seem to realize the power that he now has over me. He seems surprised that I’m not fighting him like I have been up until now. It’s my duty, as his dragon, to explain to him what it means to be a rider.
As I fly him back to our cave of treasures, I think about how long it’s been since a dragon has had a rider. My parents and many other dragon couples were two dragons mated to each other, so they didn’t have to claim one another. To my knowledge, it’s been a couple of centuries since the last dragon was claimed.
Many humans and supernaturals have tried, and they have lost their lives in the process. Because of that, the humans started writing stories about the ferocity of dragons, and then they wrote stories about the noble dragonslayers who would save the kingdom from th
