The roar sounded again, much closer this time. The walls shook with it. Fear hit me so hard I could hardly breathe. I knew that whatever might occur was unlikely to affect me, for we were clearly lost in some kind of vision. Nonetheless the growing panic was palpable and we all felt it. Pense rushed for me, stationing himself directly before me as though he would repel all threats by bodily force alone. Meri and Gio backed up until they hit a wall and stayed that way, eyes wide. Gio was shaking.
Krays’s barring of the door, though a sensible enough thought in itself, proved useless in the end because the draykon came through the wall. That roar sounded again from mere feet away, so loud and tortured that my ears threatened to shatter and my heart twisted in my chest with fear and compassi
