“One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though… betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.” In the diffusing silver light of the moon goddess, a lone dragon wandered through the gloom of the night. The expected battle hadn't taken place, yet something else had. Katerina…. The guard that he built around himself was slowly crumbling down into pieces, it had been a long seven hours and he hadn't seen Katreina as Theodore kept him busy in finding the prophecy book. It wasn't that Theodore didn't want to see her, admire her but he wanted to know the meeting that took place between them on the grand stage. Everything was clear in his mind until their gazes hadn't locked, but when it did, there had been a bl