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Annwyl stood and walked to Fearghus She stood in front of hi"

"Can you, boy?" Fearghus closed his eyes at the sound of his father’s voice The old dragon had hauled his enormous bulk up and stood behind his son

Annwyl felt it at that ood it felt to wrap it around herself like a warm cloak in the e spread through her lihus’s eyes snapped open in surprise at the sound

"Annwyl" She moved around him, her eyes locked with his

He turned his body as she walked He waited for it Waited for the blow And he’d take it too She was sure of that

"Are you going to let soust Annwyl now stood between the two dragons Her eyes still locked with Fearghus’s, her blade pointing tip down, the handle gripped by both her hands She held the weapon so tightly that her tan knuckles nohite with the effort

"You lied to me"

"Yes"

"Why?"

"I didn’t think you’d understand"

"Just kill her, Fearghus Kill her and be done with it," his father sighed heavily

"Tellthrough her veins "Do you understand this?"

She spun on her heel away froe she contained, slaon’s claeen his talons where the scales were at their thinnest, nailing it--and hion’s head fell back and the roar he let out ues away

Annwyl turned to her lover "Burn in hell, Fearghus"

She walked away, leaving the dragons to tend their wounded father