god wait hugh ultimately claiming vermithor because he’s trying to save that young girl, staring down the face of a monster from a storybook, a god people sacrifice too and build shrines for, the dragon the CONCILIATOR rode, and saying YOU CANNOT SCARE ME! he’s lost his daughter he’s abandoned his wife he’s fought every moment of his life what is this creature and the death it threatens him with compared to the life he’s left behind??? NOTHING! HES NOT AFRAID!!
and ulf is THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE. literally showing his belly to silverwing, he doesn’t want this he doesn’t want the power the glory all he wants is for someone to pay for his drinks when he tells stories, but it’s too late, silverwing whose last rider was alysanne the good queen, the queen who was denied real power by her so called loving husband and used her charm and wit and ability to connect to others to cling to any power she could, the woman who wept when she was no longer hale enough to ride the creature that gave her power, it sees ulf’s yearning for nothing more than to tell a story and goes “sorry you little dirty freak you’re mine now” and claims him!!!
