Xantcha - Survives Wyvern Attacks

She was assigned tasks no warrior would have dared: feeding the creatures, repairing damaged engines, and destroying those artifacts the warriors had merely damaged. Her death had been expected, even anticipated, but when the fearsome wyverns with their fiery eyes and razor claws went on a rampage that reduced a hundred priests and warriors to oilcaked rubble, Xantcha the newt had survived without a scratch.

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Chapter 6