A choked, gut-wrenching gasp broke from Kaida's throat, and then her world simply imploded.
"No... no, no, no!" she sobbed, the denial crumbling to ash in her mouth as the horrifying pieces fell into place. The dark tether, the ease with which Scarlax's magic had merged with her own dragon blood, it all made a twisted, sickening kind of sense.
she threw herself into Casper's arms, hiding her face in the crook of his neck as heavy, uncontrollable sobs wracked her entire body. Her fingers clutched at his shirt as if he were the only solid thing anchoring her in an ocean of cruel reality.
"They were monsters..." Kaida wept, her voice broken, muffled against his chest. "My whole life I was searching for them... praying they were alive... and she, she treated me like a weapon! She is a monster!"
