One Last Foreboding

He couldn't help but smile at the thoughts that squally filtered into his kind whenever he was free and he was thinking.

It was a fearful, frenzied, and fantastic question that reaped his heart and mind apart.

He wished he could go back now anyway and see how they were faring. What if something bad had happened to them, he thought.

What if the dragon kingdom had decided to publish his kingdom even though they had done what they were supposed to do by banishing him.

If that ever happened, he would make sure that he dealt with them squarely.

It was the rule here in the kingdoms- if anyone took the life of another from a different kingdom. There were only two options: being killed or being banished forever from his kingdom.

They had taken the second option for sure but it did not guarantee them that the dragon kingdom wouldn't do anything about it.