Chapter 241

• [Primus]
• As a grown drake nearing his first century of life, it is a rare occasion that I’ve felt true fear. In fact, I could count those moments on a single hand–watching my wife lay her first clutch, not knowing if she could survive; Seeing my mother die in an explosion of light; waking up under the control of The Technician to be used and abused by the queen herself. And finally, when my wife was taken from me again, tortured, and I witnessed her death, feeling it across continents.
• Which is why my sudden fear feels so alien. I am not really ill, and The Technician is on my side. My wife is alive, and growing in power, and my children are safe.