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Morfyd looked up at her brother and frowned "Why are you here?"

"What do you mean why am I here?"

"I just sent Annwyl to find you She wants to talk to you"

"Talk to me?" He pointed to hihed and seemed about to anshen she stopped and stared off behind hi here?"

Briec, next in line behind Fearghus, leaned against a tree and watched his siblings quietly Naked, fresh fro silver mane of hair stretched down his back and fell across his face and shoulder

"When there was no answer frohus shook his head "Not this again" He didn’t want to hear it He wanted to find Annwyl Hear what she had to say And no matter what she said, he would tell her the truth Tell her everything He couldn’t go on like this anynore hireen Gwenvael to his feet

"Go back to the old bastard and tell him to stay out of hus frowned "What do you mean you can’t?"

"I mean I can’tbecause he’s already here He awaits you in your den"

Before Fearghus could react, Morfyd’s hand suddenly gripped his arhus Annwyl"

"Dragon!" Annwyl called out before she even entered his part of the lair "Dragon! Are you here?"

She on’s main chahus, I" She stopped

Although the dragon she no before her bore the sahus, this one’s black h it, and his scales were not as bright Clearly an older dragon

And he definitely wasn’t Fearghus

She stopped and stared at hion looked at her

"You"

The look of welcohus’s eyes did not spark in this dragon’s And she knew in that split second he wanted her dead

She burst into a run, the dragon’s flaon took in another deep breath so Annwyl dived behind a large boulder Flames erupted all around her as she crouched do The flames went around the boulder but its heat scared her beyond anything she’d known He could kill her with one blast She ignored the panic that began to rise and unsheathed her sword

After several on sto toward the boulder She held her breath and waited He stopped and she glanced over just as his snout ca on to her scent She waited until the beast’s head was close enough then she slashed hion blood spurted across her arer as she sprinted out, heading away froed after her Annwyl knew that in order to survive she needed to let her instincts take over She weaved between other boulders, using the beast’s size and weight against hiain hide behind a boulder or a stone wall But she couldn’t keep it up on before it killed her She stayed behind a boulder longer than noron caet close to her she jumped up on the boulder and onto the beast’s snout Startled, he gave her the time she needed to run up and over his head, down his neck, across his back, until she reached his tail She knew he could use it as a weapon, so she moved quickly She held the tip doith her foot and slammed her sword between it and where the scales were at their shus once cut his brother’s tail off