Chapter 98: Lead

Lena

The rain fell in long, sorrowful streaks against the glass of the window of my room. I stared out at the dreary woods, seeing nothing. My coffee sat untouched and growing cold on the table before me. In my hand I clutched a sheet of paper, the ink slightly smeared from the dampness of my palms.

It was a letter from him. Mr. S. The letter said he wished to meet with me, if I was free. He said he knew much regarding the mystical bonds between human and dragon. Much that could help me. Help sever the bond I shared with the great dragon Scar.

My hands trembled. I had not dreamed it could be true, that the key to my salvation could come this way, from a stranger in a letter. Yet this Mr. S seemed to know truths about the ancient bonding magic few in the wide world understood. In the short weeks since his first message arrived, we had built a correspondence. He answered clearly my most desperate questions, straight and true, holding nothing back. It kindled a fragile flame of hope in m