"I have the option to go back. When Mother was dying, she told me she’d make up a lie if I needed one. A reason to explain away why I was gone. But she knew better than I did that nobody even noticed me. Not the queen. Not my neighbors. Not the dragons I once called my friends. The kids who grew up by my side, and witnessed every sunrise at my wingtips. They’d hate me if they did remember, but I can’t blame them. I’m unremarkable. And that might just be why I was led to the strangest IceWing egg of them all."

"Asha’s bound to deliver the MudWing dragonet easily. Webs will find our SeaWing. I’m just grateful destiny doesn’t call for a SkyWing. With Scarlet on the throne, any would surely die just to grasp at the remains of what she might do. ... But you... are going to change the world."

“I don’t know what you’re talking about. I took him. From *my* kingdom. Sir, you know I respect you and this prophecy greatly. I wouldn’t lie to protect somebody else’s scales if it meant the world might not be saved!”