I don’t know why it hadn’t occurred to me or any of us to check underground. Maybe because we couldn’t find Iniko and Eliane and they weren’t underground. Either way, now we’ve found them.
As Jewels begins digging up the earth, I hear the sounds of screams coming from inside.
“ISHIR!” I exclaim.
“Humans! I hear them!” he yells, leaping off my mother’s back and shifting into his tiger as he falls into the hole Jewels has created.
I hear my father’s threatening growl. There are many sounds that a dragon can make, but my father and I are the same in this one. We are most deadly when our angry sound is soft and low. When I look, I see him and Merethyl facing off against what smells like an elf hybrid. He must think very highly of himself if he thinks he can take on my father and a royal el
