Erik My brain throbbed in time to the beat in my right temple as consciousness slithered over me and pain rode its coattails. My body felt compressed as rock crushed in on every side. An enormous slab leaned heavily against my left side. Its upper edge was propped above my head by a mound of stones that crowded in on my right, creating a tight stone tepee. They all threatened to slip and pulverize me into the dust. My half-shifted wing wrapped around me, all mangled up like a broken umbrella while it hummed with pain, pouring fire up through my spine. I tried a deep breath, and my shattered ribs ground against each other, making me cough painfully with the dust that had settled on my body. I looked around through my dragon’s eyes, his night vision helping in the darkness. Some motherfuc