DRAGON MOUNTAIN
FORMER ISLAND OF SARDINIA
You are safe now. Open your eyes… there is nothing to fear here.
The voice was soft in his mind. Soothing and calm. It filled him with warmth, the tingles coursing through his muscular body right down to his tail. His eyes had lost much of their redness with nearly two full days of sleep and healing. They now resembled a dark orange color and were much softer than they had been in years. He felt different. No longer did anger surge through his being, no longer did hatred for what he did not know or understand ripple through his veins. He felt empty somehow, but it was an emptiness that his mind told him was not a bad thing.
Slowly Vollenth opened his eyes.
