“Oh do grow up, child. Not everyone’s adventures end as happily as yours. Really, I should have seen something like that coming…” Spike paused as he shuffled, spotting something on the top-most digit on Meranax’s claw holding the human. Her green scales made it difficult to spot, but now that he saw it in the glow of the crystal light, it was obvious. Shot through several of the scales, some as large as his head, was the same sickly green and yellow web he had seen on other dragons, and on Ember.