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Suzerain Tyretlethen shrieked loudly as the insect horde slammed into his flank, breaking his entrancing spell upon the Lady Nedelethakor and forcing him to thrash and swat at the locusts in panic for a moment. Ripples of lightning traced their way down the Dragon King's body before a gout of arcing electricity lashed out in all directions from his body, forming a cage of jittering light around his regal visage.

Tyretlethen shouted in the ancient tongue of dragons as he fought off the consuming swarm. It was a language Sekhemkare knew to be of alien origin, having arisen only from the time of the Colossi and the sundering of Eras. The Suzerain was cursing the desert shaman, calling him scum, a drifter, and a feckless oaf. Some were true, others not. It didn't matter, for the sands would abide the gamut of truth, lies and secrets.

Nedelethakor regained her bearings for a moment, shaking her large head before charging through the Suzerain's cage of lightning and tackling the larger dragon with her full weight. The azure wyrms tumbled and wrestled for some time, slamming into pillars and shattering furniture as they rolled, roaring, all around the sand-choked hall. Even for one as old and wizened as Sekhemkare, it was an awesome sight. Then, all at once, the entangled dragons burst through a wall, so close to the shaman that he almost had considered stepping out of the way.

As it were, the two dragons were now on the wing, circling the Azure citadel and firing bursts of lightning and magic power at one another. The sandstorm was even more fierce outside of the ruined antechamber, but the dragons were in such a frenzy by this point that they scarcely paid any heed to the withering blast of heated dust. Still, the Locusts of Sekhemkare quested after their royal quarry, which seemed to be giving the Lady Nedelethakor the upper hand. Those few servants of the Suzerain or Favored Concubine who remained in the royal chambers now huddled tightly into whatever eaves or crannies they could locate to wait out the duration of the vengeful, desert sorcery...