Calen reached out to Valerys. The dragon was already in the air, fighting the agony that seared through his side. Through Valerys’s eyes, Calen could see the true enormity of what they faced. The Urak army stretched the whole way back through the long street, out into the courtyard that lay before the gates, and further still, swarming across the rest of the city. There had to be thousands of them, tens of thousands. Calen clenched his jaw. He could not even begin to count the number of times he had thought his life over. But now, as he stood with those he called friends, it truly felt as
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