gods you were such an idiot sometimes. First you couldn’t help yourself but to swim in the shallow waters surrounding the palace. Just to watch the high lord of the summer court. Second lure one of the high lord’s sentries and engulf his soul and flesh. Which now aroused suspicion and they suspected someone is planning an attack. Oh no. You weren’t going to attack the high lord. You only wanted to look. Only wanted to touch, tatse-no.

you frowned, climbing onto a rock to spy the high lord. Where had he gone? Before you could lift higher up onto your elbows hands yanked you onto the shore. You stretched and snapped your fangs. You looked up to see two sentries had pulled you onto the shore, far enough away from the water that you were immensely weaker. The sun was already dying up your scales and you could feel a sunburn starting.

you heard footsteps from behind you, a large broad shadow engulfed your frame.

“Didn’t think I’d see one of these so close to the shore. I’ll take it from here.” I firm but gentle voice commanders and the sentries bowed and walked a bit of a distance away. Tarquin stared down at you, tilting his head. “so, I presume you know what happened to my sentry?”