After Andrew left, Liam collapsed into his desk chair. While he had acted calm while Andrew was here, he was quaking the whole time. Not long ago he had watched the men Andrew had trained destroy Maahess men, then both Alexa and Andrew personally destroyed the tiger themselves. The power to break bone like that was one thing, but doing it to someone like Maahes and not even flinching about the consequences was amazing. Durres would continue to be flipped on its end by this young dragon as he opened his wings.  Andrew rode through town and parked his bike outside the Durres Medical Group. This pharmaceutical company had a small natural remedies clinic that it operated but its main focus was on the manufacture of various remedies and drugs. They had come to fame for a healing salve that helped prevent infection and reduced healing time from weeks to just a few days for minor cuts with far less scar tissue. Andrew strode in and introduced himself to the receptionis

After Andrew left Melissa, he headed to meet up with Roisin and Arya who should be at the Dragon Lair. As Andrew rode toward the outskirts of town, the mountains framed the background, and the rolling hill that was the Dragon Lair community came into view. The sprawling countryside was breathtaking with large canopy crimson leaf trees offsetting the standard greens. From this distance, the layout of the community made the hill side almost look like a huge dragon head was growing out of the side of the mountains, with the central road as the nose, and the lakes at the center of each of the lower sections looking like blue eyes ringed by crimson. The rooftops played in the afternoon sun like scales. There, right at the top was a ring of eight mansions, their roof tops just visible over a sea of trees that separated them from the other homes. The mansions almost looked like a crown of horns atop the dragon's head. From this angle, the Dragon Domain, the 50-acre mansion that cla

Melissa Zolan had left the Durres Medical Center after her encounter with Sun Wyrn and went to visit her father. Brian Zolan was now in his sixties with poor health. Despite having founded a state-of-the-art medical group, he had never managed to find a cure for his own ailments. He now spent much of his time in his garden, trying to enjoy as much of life’s beauty as he could. As Melissa walked into the small backyard, she found her father in his usual chair working at a raised garden bed clipping several herbs for replanting. He had an amazing talent for growing several rare medical grade plants that he had managed to propagate and even created a few hybrid species that proved to be very potent. However, getting them to grow in enough scale to be useful to the general public had always proven difficult to impossible. Looking up Brian said “Ah Melissa! You are home early!” “Hi daddy. It was a rough morning.” She took a seat near her dad and he rotated to look

Back near the Dragon’s Lair, Andrew dragged Celeana outside and was followed by her entourage. He was honestly a bit surprised the two guards had not stepped in when he grabbed her arm so roughly. “you two are not the best of guards are you?” he said. “We are instructed to not get involved in marital disputes.” One of them responded, with a wink to Andrew. Clearly, they did not mind seeing this child get handled by someone not afraid of her family. “Hmm, is that so.” Said Andrew slyly. Celeana just glowered. “So, HUSBAND, you mentioned food. I am hungry. where is there a good place to eat around here?” “I suppose we could find something. Though I will have to meet you there,” said Andrew. “O no you don’t.” said Celeana hotly Andrew was a bit flustered but just pointed at his bike as an explanation. “you don’t even have a decent car? Gah! To think you plan to live in the Dragon Lair and don’t even have a freaking car! Re

“Well, the family has always had a hard time keeping track of you. Even with our resources, the army always kept you on the move. About five years ago you completely fell off the grid.” Celeana began. This made sense to Andrew, as that was shortly after the time he had bonded with Raya, and started his journey to becoming a god of war. The team had decided to start concealing their identities from the world once assassinations started.  “Most assumed you had died, but then about three years ago we got the first reports of our son in law making a name for himself in Durres. My father had been told that you had some early connections with Durres, so this made sense to him. He and grandfather assumed you had been rotated home for a short leave for a period of time. They felt they confirmed this when other reports came in that you were again on the front in Warrington, and other stories of you being sent deep into Jerean territory. Those reports were always vague re