Chapter 15
ALTHOUGH TIRED, Nellie found it hard to sleep that night.
She couldn’t help thinking about the box in her cupboard, the box that two deacons of the church had opened, setting fire to the crypt. The box that contained the dragon that had given Lord Verdonck and Madame Sabine terrible scars. The box that was now in her room in the unlocked wardrobe where people could accidentally stumble across it.
It was as if the air became stifling with imaginary heat.
Nellie had seen Li Fai’s dragon once, a terrible creature with a long, sinuous body and a large mouth with vicious teeth. It was about the size of a horse, could fly and blew fire from its nostrils.
Back then, it had defeated a great evil sorcerer, so she had seen it as a good creature, but magical creatures existed under th
