The barrier around the mountain was lowered now that the egg was back, and the Dragons flooded out over the slopes and the surrounding forests, looking for someone to vent their anger and boredom on.
Cain sincerely hoped that there were no innocents in the forest at the moment, but there wasn't much he could do about it now. Thousands of Dragons had poured out of the city, and they would be swarming everywhere.
If the intruders were smart, they would have begun to run the moment that they saw the spectacle so that they wouldn't have to learn what it was all about firsthand, but you never really knew when it came to humans. Some of them might even try to approach an angry dragon to find out what it is mad about.
Death by trying to pet unpettable things was just an occupational hazard of being a human.
An hour after the dragons left in a wave, one of the black dragons returned with an overjoyed fuzzy hatchling and a terrified human in its claws.
