WENDELL WAS FROZEN SOLID
only a dragon can melt magical ice
but how do they go about finding one?
,,, and would it help them if they do?
wendell's entire body went rigid. His entire being screamed at him not to accept. Yet he could find no definitive reason why he felt this way. It was as if some sixth sense warned him against it. His heart thudded in his chest the way it had that day in the Snow White Memorial Prison when he had been confronted by the Queen. He glanced aside at Tony. The man was fairly frantic with need, and his entire countenance shouted for him to agree. His mouth formed the words "Say yes!" Beyond him, his advisors neither agreed nor disagreed, although all faces bore frowns or grim expressions. Still, it was clear to him they left the final decision in his hands, exactly where it should be.
Except, of course, he had no idea what to do or say.
Shaking visibly, the king clasped his hands behind his back, his knuckles cracking under the strain as he wrung his soft silk gloves. He did not want to say it, but protocol and diplomacy, and the strange sensations the Ice Queen provoked in him, all insisted he say it. "Very well. I accept your gift. And what is it you wish me to give you?" He began running through a list of possible choices in his mind...
The Ice Queen smiled again, quite broad and very malicious this time. A thin tapering wand of ice slid from her sleeve into her hand, and she extended it to point the star-crowned tip at him. "Why...your Kingdom, of course!"
A blast of ice whistled through the air toward him, bursting from the wand...
He is the last of his kind, sealed away from the Nine Kingdoms by magic and his own bitterness and loneliness. Can Virginia break through the iron walls of the dragon's heart, make him trust and care again, and beseech his aid to save the Kingdoms and her own father and stepbrother from the wicked Ice Queen?
THE LAST DRAGON
by Macster
illustrated by Marsha McNamee and Macster
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