"Next, the Holy Flame Fleet will escort you safely to Holy Flame Island. Once the handover is complete there, you can leave safely."
"There are plenty of interesting things on Holy Flame Island. I hope you'll be pleasantly surprised!"
With that, Danyla flew away on Dreamfyre, while Lysandro stared in the direction the Great Dragon had gone, unable to collect himself for a long time.
Only after Danyla had vanished into the distance did Giovanni and Dezelaco emerge from the cabin.
"They say the descendants of Valyria's dragon kings are as beautiful as gods. Now that I've seen one, I can see it's true!"
Giovanni could not help praising her.
"This dragon princess's beauty is truly beyond anything the women descended from Old Valyria in the Free Cities can match."
"And the blue Great Dragon she rode is simply the most perfect creature in the world!"
For the Rogare father and his two sons, this was the first time in their lives they had been so close to a Great Dragon. Dezelaco could not help marveling as well.
"Indeed. Seeing a Great Dragon this close, I feel as though the blood in my veins is about to catch fire. What a wondrous sensation!"
Lysandro murmured to himself.
"I'm growing more curious about Holy Flame Island by the moment!"
During the day and night of rioting in Oldtown, the Holy Flame Fleet had also intercepted more than a dozen merchant flotillas bound for the city. All of them were now being held under the fleet's watch.
Danyla rode Dreamfyre straight over these ships. In the darkness, Dreamfyre's enormous Dragon Wings exerted an overwhelming pressure on those below. These traders regularly traveled between the two shores of the Narrow Sea, and they had often glimpsed Great Dragons soaring in the distance.
But