Danyla had Dreamfyre drag the three lizard-lions beneath a nearby weirwood. The tree probably was not very old, standing only a little over ten meters tall, with a trunk two people could encircle, but its foliage was lush. There was no face on it, however.
With a mischievous streak, Danyla took out the Firefall Dagger and carved a beautiful woman's face into its trunk. Then she slit the smallest giant lizard's throat with the Dawn Sword and painted the face red with its blood.
For the sake of her experiment, Danyla also began chanting the Blood Sacrifice Spells. She wanted to see how much lizard-lion blood could help the weirwood, since these creatures carried faint traces of magical energy within them.
Unfortunately, even after the lizard-lion had bled dry, the weirwood before her showed no change.
Looking at the enormous lizard-lions, Danyla handed her Valyrian dagger, Firefall, to Walda and had her handle the finer work. She herself wielded the Dawn Sword, easily slicing them open along the gaps in their armored scales.
Lizard-lion blood was said to be a rare magical material, highly prized by the Children of the Forest and Warlocks. Danyla filled two silver flasks with it, which should have been worth quite a few gold dragons. As she continued chanting softly, she sacrificed all the remaining blood to the weirwood.
Lizard-lions had long, powerful bodies covered in scales as hard as armor. Each scale seemed to have been painstakingly forged by nature, their diamond shapes fitted tightly together, gleaming with a cold, eerie sheen beneath sunlight or moonlight.
These scales seemed to clothe the lizard-lions in armor impervious to blades and spears, protecting them from enemies while also reducing resistance as they swam, allowing them to move freely through the water.
A lizard-lion's head was a