Ryker: If you shift right now, I will never let you live it down.
Maddox: I am spotting her.
Ryker: You are hovering.
Maddox: I am her husband and I am spotting her. There is a difference.
Ryker: There is no difference. This is exactly why bondeds do not get involved with training.
Maddox: Noted. Shifting now.
Ryker: Maddox.
He shifted.
Gold light exploded across the training field.
It was immediate, involuntary, and catastrophically visible. A burst of white-gold radiance that lit the field like a second sun and turned every head on the ground and in the air toward the center of the course where the High King of Velkaris had just announced his presence with the magical equivalent of a flare gun.
Maddox's dragon blinked.
What the hell was that?
Ryker: Beautiful. Truly. A lighthouse.
Maddox: Shut up.
Ryker: Your dragon needs an off switch, Commander.
