It was spoken in the old dragon tongue. “Love, I’ll never do without. I am yours and yours alone. I am bound to you now and always. No matter the face, no matter the form, by word and deed, I will find you again.”
The part of Marina that had been slipping away now changed course. It moved through the dragon heart stone that Vasili had placed beside her and far above her into the sky, where a black shadow still circled.
Vasili tightened his hold on Tasha as he struggled to understand what he had just seen. The stone hadn’t just taken Marina’s dragon’s soul. She had somehow removed her human soul. Had it gone into the dragon heart stone or perhaps the mountain? He didn’t understand how, but the implications were clear—Marina was here, not just her dragon. She was part of Tasha.
Tasha brok
