@perzyr : ❛ seems like we’re gonna be spending a lot of time together. ❜
the last few days had been a rather harrowing experience, at least for the queen ⸻ netheera had seen such villainy before, what blackhearted thing a man wouldn't do for gold dragons? thankfully, the royal children were safe, the same couldn't be said for a portion of the holdfast. she recalled how she, dreamfyre, in her fury, tore through layers of brick and stone, her blood-curdling cries of unmitigated savagery were the most beautiful sounds netheera had ever heard, and the most comforting in the moment too. while nett had rendered one of the men little more than meat, dreamfyre splattered the other across the walls like a macabre painting. queen helaena scarcely left the encampment they'd scrounged together within the kingswood, dreamfyre encircled the home away from home like the living sentry she was. vermigon, not far behind, spent his days alongside them also. the young ones loved it, playing about in the brush like hedge knights; nett wasn't blind to the comfort it brought everyone, it let helaena sleep peacefully more oft than naught, and that was a blessing in itself. netheera, nursing scrapes of her own, sat near the fire pit and stoked it gently; such a fierce voice spoke such gentle words, but there was no malice there ⸻ at least none she could sense. ❛ i've had worse company, ❜ she joked with a warm smile as she turned the spit with effort. ❛ forgive me, i asked after the queen, but not you. how do you fair? ❜ netheera'd never properly sat down to speak with the sapphire queen before, and she thought that was a shame, considering how important she was to her own dragon and to the queen herself. the she-dragon had also thwarted a vicious and heinous plot, and there was no doubt she was still feeling the effects.










