Failure is the only damn way we learn. Have you failed? Yes. Will you fail more? All the time. And that’s the best thing that can ever happen to you. When you stop failing, you stop learning. And then you’re of no use to anyone.

Sanna hesitated, then shook her head. “Magic is dangerous. It nearly destroyed all the dragons in the massacre.”“I want it.

She's coming,” Isadora whispered.Maximilion's nostrils flared. "Then let her come.

Worrying over everyone else? There’s no time for that.

Tomorrow,” she murmured. “We face whatever comes next.

Then what’s changed?”You are the only witch in all of Antebellum who has earned Deasyvla’s trust and fully merged with a dragon.She shrugged. “So?”You, Sanna of Anguis, are now the High Dragonmaster.

Why are you helping me?”Maximillion blinked, drawing in a deep breath. He let it out. “Because it’s the right thing to do. There, your question is answered.

You’re not upset about that fate?“I can’t change it, right?”He paused. Pragmatic. Unexpectedly so. I didn’t expect logic from a wild witch like you.

She advanced into the chaos of light and darkness.