Her sword connected, but rather than tearing through soft flesh, it jarred and sparked, like she’d tried to strike a titanium Tesla coil. Though the torn jeans, she could see what she had struck. Blue dragonscale, rapidly expanding. As she looked up, she could see the scale all across Rai’s expanding body, until the shadow of a much bigger, much scalier, much more horned and winged version of Rai loomed over her, and grinned. “Keeping up? My dear I’m just warming up.”