She pulled away, still blushing, smiling wider, turning her face away but glancing down the length of my body from the corner of her eye. I wanted to stretch for her gaze, let her admire in daylight all the places she'd studied so sincerely by muffled candlelight. But the sooner I was done with whatever tussle the other dragons needed mediated, the sooner I could return to the castle and declare it evening. My turn.
