Enemy of My Enemy Is An Enemy

Ginger was stunned.

He secretly beat himself up for not entertaining the idea that if his current vision showed him the innards of the large Blighted, the same would happen when he looked at Alcaeus. It was common sense!

However, the tension of the situation, paired with his rage at the gall of Alcaeus to say what he had just said, had steered his mind from his usual curiosity and keen thinking.

In Alcaeus' place, Ginger saw a pile of bones with a soft, boyish outline around them; two hearts were entrusted to their care, along with a stok and vague, complex networks – the more pronounced one for blood, and the one traced along it, for Kardia.

The whole visual caught the plump dragonling off guard. Suddenly having a skull with its two large sockets staring at you wasn't at all pleasing, especially when you were least expecting it. Quite frankly, this was more daunting to Ginger when it happened with the large Blighted.