Chapter 10 Lady Freya

"Ash is not a creature," I said. "He is a Hel-Drake of the Obsidian Lineage, First Clutch of the Shadow Brood, and he goes where I go. Don't you, sweetling?"

Ash rumbled. A tiny puff of smoke escaped his nostrils and drifted across the table toward Elowyn's face.

She coughed. Waved it away. He...