Chapter 12

• [Primus]
• I cannot trust my judgment with the smell and feel of her in my senses, so I am going to see the one person I know who could snap me back to reality, my sister, Ona. She’s a star fire dragon, which means she can be extremely temperamental, unpredictable, and capricious. She is also shrewd, wise, honest, and loyal. She’d never break a bond of trust. She’s the meanest, bravest, craziest drakaina I know. I can trust her to keep my secrets and to be strong enough to fight anyone else who comes seeking them as a way to hurt me.
• She is both my dearest friend and the greatest competition I have for the dragon throne. You’d think that alone would make her someone I shouldn’t give my confidence to, but we came to an understanding as hatchlings. It involved molten rock and a waterfall. Only Ona and I know the truth of that incident, and that is how we intend it to stay until we are both dead. It is far too …embarrassing. But, it was at that moment that we stopped trying to kill one another and decided instead to cooperate.