Xilon held his dragonfire inside his lungs, ready to exhale and whatever sorcerer had turned his brothers into humans, he'd burn to cinders. Why would a Renjerian want to become a puny human anyway? No, it had to be a bad spell.

"Kohl has always been able to shift," Taurian said, his sapphire tail brushing across the dirt floor. "But he and father hid it from us."

"That explains him, maybe." Xilon lifted a talon and tapped it against Taurian's chest. "But you and ...