Instead he looked out over the dark ground far below them, the tips of massive trees speeding by and turning into a blur. By the end of the first round only eight students remained and the mood in the room was dismal. It was another hour before he was called out for his match and he walked slowly out into the snow covered arena to find that the walls that had been built up for the last two days were gone now. ‘What’s going on here?’ Daiya asked and Richard hadn’t noticed that she had walked towards him and Lythia. ‘Dark Elves are the only people who can ride dragons as a mount. He hadn’t been expecting to fight Daiya before the finals, even though he knew there was a chance. ‘Where… where did you get this dragon?’ Richard decided to ask after a while of silence. She was pale and covered in sweat and she held her left side with a shaking hand that was covered in blood. When he walked through a small hole in the bricks that quickly closed up behind him Alyssa whispered a quick good luck and then went back to her job.
