MIRA
Dragon! Dragon in the sky! Oh, thank you, gods! He is alive and breathing…fire. I want to chuckle but I am too weak for that.
“Nort! Invisible barrier! Rick, hold the horses!” Dereck commands.
Damn it! He is too good at all this. A perfect battlemage and for the first time ever I regret it.
A shadow covers us all, as I lie in Dereck’s arms and all my friends are looking up in the sky, not saying a word. He is so close!
“Rien!” I whisper as the strength leaves my body and I feel one single tear roll down my cheek. A huge dark dragon circles right above us. He is so close that I can almost see his scales. And then he flies higher and higher, breathing out fire to the sky.
“He is looking for something,” Nort whispers.
“Or someone,” Dereck looks at me as if he unde
