CHAPTER 29 - A Mindless Beast

Ryan It took months for me to fully recover from the experience. Not just physically, but mentally and emotionally too. My body healed quickly enough thanks to my accelerated wolf healing, but my mind... That was a different story. I was plagued by nightmares of that dark, dank cell and the dragon lady's haunting words. I'd wake up in a cold sweat, my heart racing, half expecting to find myself covered in scales again. My dad stayed by my side through it all, offering comfort and reassurance when the terrors got to be too much. As I slowly regained my strength, I tried to make sense of what happened to me. The dragon inside me was a wild, untamed thing. With no one to teach me how to control it, how to harness its power, it remained a mindless beast driven by instinct and rage. I was terrified of losing control, of hurting someone I cared about. So, I locked that part of myself away, deep down where I hoped it would never see the light of day again. Two years ago, when we were att