BOOM!!
The second ship had not finished listing from the first attack when Shade pulled into the banking arc and Noah felt it.
A shudder. Starting at the base of the dragon's neck and running back through the spine under him, not pain, not fear, something else entirely, the vibration of a biological system charging something it had not used in a while. The temperature along Shade's back dropped several degrees in the space of a single breath, the scales beneath Noah's hands going cold in a way that had nothing to do with the altitude or the sea wind.
Noah had felt Nyx charge Inferno Storm enough times to know what a dragon building toward something felt like from the outside.
This was different. This was pressure without heat. A compression happening somewhere deep in Shade's chest cavity, not one thing gathering into one point but many things, dozens of them, the sensation like watching a single flame become an ember bed.
