Lexi

Ten plus steps back.

While Khan sees those walls now as far thinner, Rave does attempt to rebuild them, reinforcing them and pushing Khan away.

Yeah, that might have worked 30 Aurora cycles ago, but ha ha, not anymore.

Not after this.

This most patient man's patience is used up.

He still hardly knows anything about Rave's past 23 phases.

She's clearly hiding something and someone has severely hurt her physically and emotionally.

She has started to open up to him and here she is shutting him out again, avoiding the hard topics as always.

Refusing to let him in keeps him safe.

It keeps her distant.

It keeps her unattached.

It keeps the pain and trauma away.

And that is how Rave is able to go about her life by shoving it all down into her icy lake so she can literally survive day by day without being consumed by what she's been through.

And Khan's like, that isn't how life works.

You don't get to just live your life entirely like this, especially with me.

Lucky for Wraith, in more ways than one, they are interrupted by incoming dragons to the city.

Two of them are decked out in silver, revealing that they are shade emissaries.

And the third riding on a poor silver moonplume is none other than Rex Zorus!

That's right, the guy Wraith has been bloodlusting over, itching to hunt down and skin alive, just showed up on a silver platter!

get it silver because he came with the shade emissaries anyway also real quickly i was realizing how okay so khan is the king of the bronze throne and then the shade is silver so that means that the fade would most likely be gold right i would be myself especially with like the gold the golden hour in the sky yes that makes absolute sense okay good yes i hadn't thought about that before all