Her question caused him to pause before he began to laugh so vigorously that many of the crowd assumed he was mad. But Ember could see the deep and evident relief in his eyes. “You were right, Ember. That was intense.” A shocked gasp swept through the fellow dragons, and the High Elder stood stunned, his face a mask of thinly veiled rage. The other Elders looked not dissimilar. “You never told him he would be like that? Gotta say he was pretty intimidating.” Spike waved his arm back and forth to emphasise the creature’s size. 