"You aren't leaving at all, Verona," he replies. "Look, as much as I'd like to comfort you in times like this, you're being too stubborn. Surely you can see that you wouldn't make it out of the forest? Marko's men aren't out to take territory, they're out to take<span style="font-style: italic">us</span>. Surely you can see that even after all these years, he's still chasing Shawn? He won't stop until we're all dead, or until he's dead. And the chances of you killing him on your own... Even<span style="font-style: italic">I</span>can't kill him on my own. That's why we need to stick together. Okay?"<br/><br/>(The younger dragons were the treats >:3 For a while, at least. They got to experience my 'haunted house' for the evening, then got let out again later)