Ride the Dragon

A hot story about how the initiate Tomasina ended up in the right place at the right time to learn the main secrets of her rival. But it turned out that she saw much more than she wanted. “Jailin took hold of her belt buckle, but her fingers slipped again, and it clinked. At the sudden sound, Ingvar raised his head, studied Jailin with an attentive look—and then asked: ‘Why are you so jumpy? It’s like you’ve never been told off for breaking your mother’s dinner set. Or for losing the hairpins with carnelian beads. Or for making out with the blacksmith’s son at the fair?’ Jailin managed the buckle on the second try and shook her head negatively. ‘In our family, those methods of upbringing are considered… barbaric.’”