Cassandra snaked closer, her colossal body gliding through the air with an oppressive silence, as if the wind itself feared to touch her. She stopped floating a few meters off the ground, too big to land among the others without turning the ground into ruins.
"Bad mood?" Her voice sounded low, but charged with a cutting energy, like ice cracking under pressure. "No, Love. I'm just... reminding my dear mother that you don't just belong to her."
Scarlet's eyes narrowed. The scales on her side fluttered, like embers reacting to the wind. A breath of fire escaped involuntarily through her nostrils, raising a column of red vapor.
"Cassandra..." she said in a low, firm tone. "Do you want to challenge my existence?"
She turned her head to face the blue dragoness with that look that would make kingdoms tremble. "Depends, are you going to act as a monopolizer?" Cassandra laughed, an icy, melodious laugh that made the snowflakes suspended in the air spin in spirals.
