Chapter 234

• [Carnelia]
• Lifting his finger to his lips, my father signals for me to wait. He must sense that others are listening, waiting to hear what he has to say. But why? Does the Grand Magus suspect the truth and that her earlier behavior was just an act?
• The room is silent, amplifying the noises around us. There is a low hum radiating from the walls, the sound of several layers of dragons, stacked on top of each other, deep within the mountains. Sun dragons, the magi and their alcolytes, each powerful enough to warp reality and call the power of the stars. I never stopped to wonder why they live so deep within this mountain until this moment, seeing how close the Grand Magus is to the Moon Queen. I had been told that the moon drakes stay to themselves, that they are too different from other dragons to want any kind of sustained interaction.