After the trials, things mostly went back to normal. We had a new group of students arrive, replacing the ones who had died in the war, which included a new group of elves and werewolves.
Ajax was walking me to class one day when Nesterin stopped us. He had been very vocal about the double standard for claiming dragons since Phoenix claimed Ajax. But, he wasn’t one of the ones who left. He also wasn’t one of the elves who was constantly putting their name in to claim a dragon one after another, which Kaylani finally stopped. She said it wasn’t a ‘fight until you get lucky’ claiming process. You either had to have a valid reason to want to claim the dragon, or you were their fated mate.
The elves had become even more frustrated by that, saying that there shouldn’t be qualifications on cla
