Through the secure command frequency, a wave of profound, euphoric relief washed over the remaining command staff.
The Herald's mental voice resonated with a confidence that was almost manic in its intensity.
'The human is contained. The Subterranean Vanguard will crush him in the depths where his evasion tactics are meaningless. We have demonstrated draconic superiority over an anomalous individual who threatened our supremacy.'
His lieutenants felt relief wash over them.
Saphira's blue scales began to return to their normal coloration.
Skatha's involuntary earth magic ripples began to stabilize as the panic that had driven them receded.
Even Boreas, the fastest dragon in the vanguard, finally relaxed his forward-leaning posture and allowed his muscles to decompress from the state of heightened tension they had been maintaining.
The Herald was already reconstructing the narrative of what had just occurred.
