Luneshale Pass --the overture--

As if summoned by mere thought, their Queen came across the sands. Akhtar smiled to her, welcoming her with a sway of his bannered tail.

Majesty. He drawled out to the girl, dipping his head down low.

They appear to enjoy your gift. I found them out in the canyon. Not too far, he didn’t say. Toula needed not know that he’d been practically den bound with the sun and the sand.

He’d never quite connected with his more heat resistant ancestors.