Chapter 12.5- The Seadragon's Roar

We unleashed the full wrath of our flames on the first line of buildings. One of them had to bee a tavern of some sort as men and women spilled from it like water from an overfull bucket as our flames washed over it. I amended that assessment as I noticed the state of dress of those spilling out— whorehouse was more appropriated. We turned sharply to the left. The town was not a well-built one, more like a collection of buildings that just happened to be close to each other. This meant it had no defined boundaries or anything of the short. From above, it was shaped roughly like a funnel but that could only be seen if one did a lot of squinting, and even more imagining. Still, it meant that we could not approach dealing with this as we ordinarily would burn a town— going from the outside in.

So we did what we did best— we sowed chaos. With out speed, we could make it from one end of the town to the other in a minute or so,. And so we used that speed to set as many buildings on fire as we could. We set them on fire at a random order. We would get every structure in this place in time, but it was more important that we cut off escape and make it as hard as possible or them to regroup or get themelves in order.

We spotted some men and women running towards the forest, and sharply banked before landing on the ground in front of them.

“Please—“ One of the men began in bastard Valyrian before I ordered, “Dracarys”. They were naught but charred bones in a matter of seconds. Hopefully, that would dissuade anyone from trying any of that again. We shot into the air once again and set a straight line of shops on fire as we flew over one the last unharmed areas of the town. Once we were finished, we turned right, continuing on towards another town that I had sighted on my flight over.

The need for the element of surprise meant that I hadn’t been able to scout the island as thoroughly as I would have liked before the assault began, but I had a clear enough mental picture from the first flight over I’d done to burn their ships that I wasn’t going in completely blind. Just with way more fog than I would have liked. For this town, we started in he middle at the conspicuously largest building and setting it on fire before banking right and burning straight down until we reached the end before turning left and burning along the town’s makeshift boundary. This one was better organised than the other one, and the people that came out of the burning buildings were much better dressed, wearing gaudy jewelry one and all. They burned just the same as the others though, as I commanded Igneel to keep going.