Then it hit me. It hit me so suddenly, I glanced at Mavrik to make sure that he hadn’t put that thought in my mind, but he was still asleep. I’d spent too much of my life feeling sorry for myself. I wasn’t going to make anyone proud moping around. I was done taking the easy road, and sitting back wishing things would get better. I hadn’t just spent a year in training to be a dragonrider to let something like this defeat me. This was an opportunity to show everyone else that I wasn’t helpless, that I could fend for myself, and I intended to seize it. For me, nothing was ever going to be easy.
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