Tell Me How (Ch.727)

A melancholic atmosphere had settled over them as they stood by the banks of the Black Sea, having just witnessed Rhall's defeat, his dragon form lost to the depths of the Black Sea.

It was expected, anticipated. Rhall's injuries were too grave for him to survive another battle, yet there was an unavoidable weight of sorrow that clung to them like a second skin,

Neveah felt it more deeply than she could have anticipated to feel for a dragon lord who lived and died many centuries before she was even conceived, and Neveah could not begin to imagine just how much more Jian felt it, just how heavier the weight of this reality would be for him.

"I'm here, will you talk to me? Share with me this burden at least, say something, Jian... anything..." Neveah pleaded, the silence was suffocating, it tore at her heart and she desperately needed to hear something from Jian, if only a word.