Dragons. My hope died and my shoulders deflated.
“I’m serious. I would never joke about something like this,” Her tone made my spine go rigid. “Allow me to explain. Before there were kingdoms—before the people separated themselves by species, there was one all-powerful being that all feared.
“He was known as the king of dragons. He was the king of all the dragon shifters, beings so powerful the whole world trembled against them. A few things happened and he took his people and hid them away from all of history. Thousands of years ago they fell off the face of the earth never to be seen again—but I was granted with knowledge of their location. Bellos, a country isolated by mountains far away from the corruption we have brought to the world.” She spoke softly but quickly. “Perhaps if you o
