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The king’s dragon followedAleksei’s.
Timothee’s dragon followed the king’s.
AndIstood still and staring in the direction of where they were heading.
BecauseIcould not believe the sight that met my eyes.
Trolls.
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Istood fixed to the spot, even as someone tugged on my arm desperately, andIheardQueenCalisademand, “Laura!InthePalace!Now!”
ButIcouldn’t move.
I could only stare asTanyn,CormacandBainonall leapt over the balustrade like we weren’t a story up, and in thePalacegarden, shifters shifted, sparks of witch, conjuror and fae magic flew, blazes of dragon fire rained down, and flashes of demons and vampires raced, all of this lanced by screams of terror and shrieks of pain.
Catastrophic pandemonium was playing out in front of me.
But no matter what they threw at them, nothing touched the trolls.
They were even immune to dragon fire.
Gods.
How could it be?
Trolls.
“Laura!”Aleecescreeched right in my ear.
ButIwas watching a golden-brown bearIknew had to beSirktear across the garden.Hebarreled into a troll who had hold of a female.Thetroll went off balance, dropped her, andSirkreared up and slashed with his mighty claws at its chest.
His claws did not perforate the troll skin.
However, the troll backhandedSirkso hard, he flew ten feet in the air and twenty feet across the garden, landing on grass and skidding uncontrollably into a bed a of flowers.
That was whenIheard a familiar dragon’s roar and watched in terror asAlekseidivebombed the troll who struckSirk.
He got too close to the ground and two trolls jumped on their mighty legs into the air, clasping him around his neck, just as another one caught his tail and swung it.Offbalance,Alekseilost control and went crashing to the ground.
NO!
My beast thudded violently in my chest.
“Unzip me,”Idemanded.
“What?Lauraget inside!”Aleecereplied on a shout.
I looked to her, and the instantIdid, she reared back.
“Unzip me!”Iscreamed.
She unzipped me, my heavy gown fell away,Ijumped out of it, raced to the balustrade, went as if to dive headfirst over it, and she burst from me.
She glided low, listing and banking to avoid the grasp of troll hands.
