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“Beau… I’m not your rider right now. I’m just your friend.”
“It’s a mind trap, you overgrown iguana hugger. Don’t think – feel . Remember who actually saved your scales.” Subplot – Kitt’s Choice Kitt Wonn discovers that the Shadow Coil is powered by a rare energy source: a living sacrifice of dragon essence . Mortis has captured a young, wild dragonet and is slowly draining it to maintain the field.
(now reluctantly heroic) arrives just in time to block Lance’s strike.
“It’s not a disease, Artha. It’s a reverse imprint . Someone has created a frequency that inverts the rider-dragon empathy. Every command you give, Beau hears as an insult. Every pat, he feels as a blow.”
Beau, enraged by the frequency, charges at Artha. The crowd watches in horror. Artha drops his helmet. He closes his eyes.