Jobs that often left a trail of blood and bones in their wake.
He was also the only Monster Hunter for the EPED who took the hard jobs, the under-the-table work. He was the Jackal, living chaos, the infamous Cyborg banned from civilized society. A cave, I soon realize, that holds a long-dead giant monster. I’ve kept my wishes hidden-despite my envy for my fellow tribemates who are happily mated.īut one day, my ward flees into a long lost cave deep beneath the jungle brush. I’ve never had the honor of consideration as a future matriarch or a match for one of the rare males born near the Forbidden Jungle. No dragon has been seen or heard from since.Īs one of the guardians of my tribe, I’m known as Milaye, a Protector of the Mermaid Coast. It’s been eight years since the red comet flew across our skies. To touch him, to bear his burden.īut the dragon I find is nothing at all like I imagined… With a thundering heart and nothing left to lose, I venture into the Forbidden Jungle to find such a dragon. And when that huntress touched the dragon’s hide, the beast transformed into a virile, possessively bonded male. When the time comes to escort my brother to a neighboring tribe, my friend tells me a rumor of a huntress finding a dragon in the northern plains. But none have been born, none but my younger brother. Which would be a great honor, if there were a male to be mine from another tribe. My name is Issa, and as the youngest huntress and the only one left within childbearing age, I’m doomed to be the last matriarch of my people. The human race has been dying since the red comet first soared through the skies above.
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