While Nilo and Ghost were having a wonderful time playing in the sky with the dragon, the people on the ground were driving themselves frantic with worry.
Mellis Hightower, who had been the first to discover the dragon's tracks, was currently negotiating with the Queen of Thorns at Highgarden, having ordered her troops to regroup to the southeast of Highgarden. However, she did not command the same level of obedience as her father and brother, and differing opinions began to surface within the coalition regarding how to handle the dragon.
The tensions that had existed ever since the coalition set out now came to the fore.
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