A tentacle of power reaches out to touch Steve Smithers and an other one reaches out to touch Hailey pulling them into the book. Hailey found her mind being pulled into the dragon. Smithers found him self standing on a cliff watching the battle between the musket wheeling prince facing a pink and maroon dragon. A madden in a cream dress chained to a pillar with sevel dragon images on it. It was clear the maiden was to look like a sacrifice, Smithers finds him self wearing a robe with sevel pockets, he reaches into one pocket to find a orb, in fact he has sevel orbs in different pockets. Knowledge hits him he is the Orbmaster, a sourcer known for his power over sevel orbs. He pulls a heart shaped orb and aims hit at the maiden who he knowns is the stepmother`s daughter. He looks thru at the maiden if the mom was evil is the daughter? A white glow shimmers around her, could she really be innocent? He finds an other orb, one he knowns looks thru glimmers, he touches both orbs, he looks thru the bobble orbs to see yes, her glow is white, what ever crimes the mother has committed, the daughter is untouched. Hailey is trying to reach the mind of the princes inside the dragon but finds only pain and hunger.
Smithers knows not all members of the pendragon line thru the centuries have been good and some were down right wicked. Princess Hailey and her step-sister Emma were the younger daughters of the old king, he had been a good guy. His sons and older daughters were married long ago. By the time the witch had married the old king, he was more a figurehead, his oldest son traveled the land sitting in judgment, his youngest ran the army, the middle son ran the bank. He only has one chance to change the end of this story, even if the daughter is an innocent. His think is interrupted by the rasp of blade leaving scabbard, no, the prince is wheeling the shadow sword he has the dark heart. Smithers aims the heart orb at Hailey when a shadow falls on all of them, he looks up to see a shadow shaped like a woman, no not a witch he knowns now, some thing much worse. "Psyche, daughter of Psyche and Cupid" Smithers says as the pink light touches Hailey. Not even her twisted granddaughter can stop the heart pearl of Venous, the pearl that came out of the shell that Venous was born out of, it is best not to ask about the gods, it does not end well. Hailey feels some thing, she feels powerful, in charge. Her wings fold down, she lands, the neck reracks and the head opens to show Hailey`s face. The scales look more like armor, the claws looks like gauntlets. The belly looks more like armor. The tail looked meatal instead of meat. Hailey swings one hand slices thru the links holding Emma. "Run Emma, run" Hailey yells as she ducks the sword swing. Emma opens her mouth to say a word that is lost in the rising wind and thunder, dam I had heard the stories of what Northern god might be her real father. Lightning crackles around her. The prince steeps back, only to be sent into a rock with a ring that was probably heard a long way a way. "No mother I will not lower my self to marry this sixth rate prince, I am the daughter of the god of thunder, the granddaughter of the god of love, I will not waste my self on this lam duck prince" she says as she walks away. The prince runs away. Psyche just walks away. "Orbmaster" Hailey Dragon princess walks over to me. "Dragon Princess" I say.