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Peril wasn't sure how long they had been sitting here. She wasn't quite sure who had brought up melting the chain first, either.

She knew she could. It wouldn't be hard.

"We could leave, right now."

She wasn't sure who had said that first. Maybe they were both thinking it.

Glory wasn't usually this quiet, this still. Peril could see how tense she was, even as she draped herself across the marble tree. Glory looked like the prisoners in the arena. It reminded Peril a bit too much of cowering, but that didn't seem right. It wasn't at all like what she knew of Glory.

Still, she recognized the stillness that meant a dragon was doing everything they could to stop trembling, the muscles like a coiled spring and ready to run.

There was never anywhere to go.

Peril wasn't meant to be this still either. Her job was to be feared, and that meant stalking towards her opponent with a grin, goading them into fighting back, doing anything she could to make the fight entertaining. Anything to see Queen Scarlet nod in approval and declare her efforts thrilling.

She could melt the chain, and Glory could leave, and they'd vanish into the mountains, into a freedom Peril didn't dare to dream of.

Her talons were close enough that only another step would sever it. She didn't. Maybe it was because she was afraid. Afraid of being caught, as she had been every time she visited Glory. Afraid of the possibility the chain wouldn't melt, and their half baked plan would fall apart immediately. Afraid of what freedom meant.

She wondered if Glory was afraid too.