He knew not for how long he had languished beneath the searing gold of the sun; though his eyelids remained sealed, the amber heat pierced all barriers to flood his being, leaving him no alternative save to pry them open.
"Where am I!"
His arms, blanketed in black scales, were not alien to him, yet he was beholding the spheres of fire erupting from the maws of the twin dragons before him for the maiden time. The heat striving to scorch his vessel was not the sun's rays, but the onslaught of a mythical beast, yet why did zero terror reside within him?
