The axe I had been given went right through his neck. Another head tumbled onto the sand. How many fights had I been in now? I could not remember. It was like time moved differently. After my first success, suddenly I had to join every fight there was, and these dragons like to party a lot, which meant I was dragged to a fight every night. It was horrible. It was one thing fighting another on a battlefield where you barely saw their faces, but when you stood one on one fighting for your life, fighting to live another miserable day as a slave … in a way it made no sense, and I had no idea for how long I had to endure this torture. I had been weakened from the many cuts that Mara did her best to take care of, but some of them were starting to get slightly infected because they got no rest, b
