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“Does this mean I have to call youYour Majestynow?”

He felt so far away now. Without the bond, he was an island separated by a vast, unknowable ocean.

She tried to smile. “Only in the bedroom,” she quipped weakly and let him pull her up.

“Let’s figure out where you sent us.”

Palm trees swayed gently in the breeze, their leaves whispering under the bright sun. A clear pool surrounded by a ring of greenery—they were in some kind of… oasis?

Ferns and weeds snagged at her skirts as they made their way towards the edge, where the lush vegetation gave way toa vast expanse of desert. Sand stretched out before them, an endless ocean of dunes that seemed to ripple under the intense heat of the sun.

In the distance, hills rose like sentinels, and above them—

“Is that…?” Taly blinked, but it was still there.

Dark shapes soared over the distant mountains, their silhouettes cutting through the air with an effortless grace. Birds of prey, perhaps, or maybe—

“Draegon,” Skye said, his mouth set in a grim line.

And Taly remembered, in the midst of all that power surging through her, when time had been running out, the place she’d latched onto.

This was Eya. The Draegon homeworld.