All eyes turned to Avrae as he clattered his jaws, and I just had to ask the question we were all thinking. 'Why didn't you eat everyone in here? Doesn't that need above all others usually drive the decision-making of dragons?'
It made a visible effort to lick the meat out from between its teeth, knowing that we were watching. 'I wasn't hungry.'
'Bull-'
'Asher, are you kidding me right now?'
Whether he was or not, Avrae was amused. Then he whipped his tail to smash yet another trash-built ridge. 'I'm not mind-controlled. You saw what they did to me; I was so weak I couldn't fly. And even if I could, there was nowhere to go.'
'Okay, we believe you.'
I don't.
Yeah, me neither.
It seemed that Asher and Cali would forever be my voice of reason, the proverbial bucket of ice water that slewed over me whenever I thought most of our troubles were behind us. 'Where's Butland?'
