A/N: Set during "Nightmares and Daydreams."
When the shift comes, it's actually a great deal less dramatic than I expected.
No now-or-never decision hangs over me. The dragons lurk inside my head, not in the souls of those I love.
It's thoughts of a commoner girl's pretty smile, a penniless boy's unhesitating hospitality, a young woman who walks with a limp, a kid my age destroyed by survival, that finally bring to the forefront of my mind the idea that has been lurking there, just out of sight, for nearly six months now:
They're not so different from us.
Suddenly, this is no choice at all.