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The Dragon Who Claimed a Human Soul by Michael James Dragons hoard gold, bones, and cities reduced to ash. This one hoarded souls-and chose the wrong human. On the edge of a burning battlefield, a dying child's soul flickers toward the gray. A dragon descends, not to save a life, but to prevent it from slipping away. With a word older than gods, it brands the child's soul as mine... and walks away, expecting to collect its prize when the mortal ripens. The child, Lysa, grows up with no memory of that day-only nightmares of a blazing eye and a voice that lives in their bones. Wounds heal too fast. Fear tastes like smoke. Strong emotion makes distant wings beat in their chest. At night, they feel the dragon's boredom, hunger, and satisfaction as it arranges its hoard: mountains of gold... and a collection of living, marked souls. Then the unthinkable happens. The sky-tyrant is slain. But when a dragon dies, its will doesn't always follow. Instead of shattering into nothing, the dragon's unfinished will, grudges, and hunger pour down every soul-thread it ever claimed-slamming hardest into Lysa. Overnight, they become the impossible: a human body carrying the echo of a dead dragon's heart. Now: Wardens of the Last Flight want to carve the dragon out of them-no matter how much of Lysa that takes. Dragons want the stolen hoard-soul back, even if they have to peel Lysa open to get it. Old laws and ancient shrines buckle around a living precedent no one planned for. Hunted, manipulated, and haunted from within, Lysa must decide what their soul will be: relic, weapon, abomination... or something entirely new. Because this time, when a dragon's will whispers mine, it isn't the only voice that gets to decide.

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