What hour?
Riley didn't even make it to the thirty-minute mark.
Barely twenty had passed before he was sprawled on the bedding, fast asleep, which was either a testament to how rattled he was or proof that cooking like a maniac and then attempting to punch the dragon lord counted as a full workout routine.
So yes. Out like a light.
But if it looked simple, that was only because one dragon lord spent the night monitoring one human who might as well have been charcoal waiting to ignite.
Sure enough, Riley Hale had not escaped unscathed from ingesting dragon blood.
It began at midnight.
"Haaa…! Huff!"
Kael's eyes snapped open. They had been resting shut while he monitored the steady rise and fall of human lungs, but the sudden strangled sound pulled him fully alert. Riley's heartbeat was steady. Mana flow unchanged. And yet…
"What now?" Kael muttered, watching as the aide twisted restlessly.
