Page 46 of Fae Reckoning

His enormous head nodded with a smooth creak of scales.

Another snort, another puff of smoke, another yelp from our audience.

I blinked up at him.

He lengthened his neck so that it stretched straight upward like the many tree trunks that surrounded us.

Flushed with embarrassment, I swallowed.

Nodding to myself in resolve, I said,

I seethed viciously.

The dragon hummed into my mind.

I didn’t know what else to say. The queen had inflicted too much misery to go gently in her sleep.

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