She'd created a batch of the dragon-dampening serum for herself, and she had the vials tucked away safely in her hotel mini-fridge. She went over the list of what she knew about dragons in her head as the taxi drove toward Rurik's nightclub, the Lair.

1. Dragons could grow oldlike thousands of yearsbut for most of their lives they resembled men and women in their mid-thirties.

2. There were more than a dozen breeds, such as Russian Imperials and Nordic ice dragons. ...