‘You can feel the dragon? He is definitely here, and alive?’ Chade was incredulous. ‘Oh, yes,’ Dutiful replied unwillingly. For the first time, I realized how pale he was. The rest of us were ruddy-cheeked with the cold. Dutiful stood very still and slightly apart from us. He looked at the Narcheska as he spoke. ‘The dragon Icefyre is indeed here. And he is alive, though I do not understand how that can be so.’
