ALLISON.

I swallowed the lump in my throat. “What happened to the fragment after using it for the last time?”

River shrugged his shoulder. “It disintegrated.”

I gasped. “Like dusts? Just like that?”

“It served its purpose,” River said grimly.

I bit my lip and shook my head, still in disbelief.

“I can’t believe it just disappeared like that. I feel guilty—”

“But you shouldn’t be. I’m not telling you this to make you feel bad,” River said.

“I know! It’s just… the dragon’s heart, itself, is almost like a myth. You must have undergone so much trouble just to acquire a fragment of it. But you just used it...