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In the burning street, an injured attacker runs away from Alarik as a dragon flies overhead. Saria threatens Alarik with her cleaver, but he seizes her wrist. Fiery energy erupts between them, branding a dark mark into her skin. Saria pulls away and dashes back to a wooden house. Inside, an angry older man chokes her. Alarik blasts the door open, lifts Saria up, and announces that she is coming with him.
The wounded attacker spots Alarik and flees in terror down the ruined lane. Above the flaming village, a massive dragon leaps across the rooftops and takes flight into the dark sky, leaving Alarik standing alone amid the burning debris.
Saria raises her cleaver and warns Alarik to stay back before swinging the blade. Alarik catches her wrist in his grip. A blast of fiery magic surges between their hands and burns a permanent dark mark directly onto her forearm.
Stunned by the magical mark, Saria pulls her arm away from Alarik and refuses to let him touch her. She sprints down the burning streets, navigating smoke and falling embers until she reaches the safety of a wooden cottage.
Saria barricades the cottage entrance, but an older man violently grabs her by the throat. Alarik suddenly blasts through the wooden door, steps inside, and hoists Saria onto her feet, declaring that she must leave the village with him.
“Brave. Brave, but foolish.”
“Take one more step, and I'll show you what I'm made of.”
“What did you do to me?”
“You're coming with me.”
Alarik smashes through the barricaded door and pulls Saria away from the violent older man. He addresses Saria by her name and announces that she is leaving with him. Will Saria manage to escape Alarik's grasp, or will she be dragged away from her burning village as the Dragon King's captive?