Chapter 0691

Finally, after what felt like an etemity, I collapsed in a weakened heap on the cot. The silver rope was still bound around my wrists and my neck, a constant reminder. Every movement ached, and my wolf was nowhere to be found.

Some time later, the sound of iron jerked me out of a half-sleep. I forced my heavy eyelids open to see a petite servant entering my cell.

Wordlessly, the girl knelt in front of my cell and pushed a tray of bread, cheese, and water toward me. At least the food here was normal, or so it seemed.

I reacted instinctively, my hand shooting out to grip her scrawny wrist before she had a chance to pull away. She gasped. Despite my drained state I easily hauled her up against the bars.

"Tell me what's happening!" I hissed. "Why have I been brought here?" The girl whined and winced, terrified, but I didn't let go.

The girl grimaced, clawing at my hold. "I cannot-the queen-*

everything." I growled, "or I'll break your wrist, and then your

she sagged a

the bars burned my skin,

the next several agonizing minutes, the servant girl told me

remaining heir of an ancient shifter dynasty-dragons, which I had long thought extinct. I couldn't believe my ears when I heard this, no, I refused to believe it. But the girl

grip. "Queen Mila is the last dragon.

scoffed. "I saw no other dragons in there,

haven't got packs like you werewolves do. We were scattered, abandoned, afraid.. but Queen Mila gave us a pack, a place of our own. She slaughtered our enemies and built our obsidian walls with her fire,

known for their brutality, which was part of why they had gone extinct. There was always infighting, hatred, no real sense of loyalty to their own kind. They didn't evolve with the

that had been a long, long time ago. Hundreds of years ago, if

this story,"

lying," the girl insisted. "Most of us live underground, in the shadows, hidden from the world. Hidden from your

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