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Everyone stopped fighting and all eyes focused on her

She kicked out with her front claw and her mother’s limp human body, the neck broken, flew across the hall floor and slammed into the opposite wall

Bercelak’s ck stirred as Rhiannon’s blue eyes met on the eyes of her court

Rhiannon had never felt so strong, so alive before Power, power of the gods, flowed through her veins when it never had before Even her dragon-forht she was just tiny, a runt No Clearly her er

She stared at the dragons of her court She was Queen now It was now her turn to rule

But first

With a short chant, she released a line of white flaicks Like a snake, it slid around the hall, avoiding Bercelak and all of his kin until it reached each of the old queen’s guard With lightning-like precision, she tore into the but a pile of ash and some burnt scales

The others, the ones whose loyalty was to the current queen, rather than to Addiena herself, watched in horror, o after the those loyal to the throne They just needed to reed to

"My mother is dead," she said flatly to the survivors "I aiance or leave Devenallt Mountain and Dark Plains forever and hope I never see you again in this life"

She thought there would bewhile people decided There wasn’t As one, they all bowed before her