Beauty and Lethality

Lailah could count on exactly one hand the number of times that she had lost control of a subordinate. 

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The soldiers of the Bright Legions were particularly loyal, but perhaps due to Lailah's frightening demeanor, everyone was always extra careful to heed every word she said to the letter.

If she instructed her men not to speak, they probably wouldn't breathe either so that they didn't risk making noise.

Instances like that were actually fairly common for her.

So as she watched Kirina move forward while drawing her weapon, all against her orders, she was more perplexed than she was angry.

The maternal instinct for dragons was a frighteningly powerful drive.

Kirina to her credit had sat still for as long as she could while Kronos had disrespected Lailah consistently.

But there was a threshold to Kirina's patience that she ended up reaching sooner rather than later.