Liam went to turn his attention to his shadows.
Nyxie first.
Normally, he would exempt her from something like this. Not because she was weak, obviously, but because he did not want people knowing he had a dragon for a shadow. Aside from Galen, Ariana, and Mabel, no one knew of Nyxie's existence in any meaningful sense, and he wanted it that way. The fewer people who knew about her, the fewer questions he had to endure. A Nyxarion was not a thing to casually display during a school assessment unless one enjoyed administrative attention, political concern, and terrified gossip.
But Nyxie had developed too much to ignore.
Shadow Memory changed things.
