Rated T for short descriptions of violence and one description of slight gore.

A griffon on a mission is not to be deterred. Through hellfire and scalding stones, across the yonder breach, a griffon must make her way. There's no other way to get there but through an inferno. And so she does it, for she is a griffon of courage, and that's all that matters.

Gilda has her mind set. There's no going back - this is the only path forward. The tears of her homeland, the blood of her enemies - soon, none of it will matter in the grand theater of life.

She will get what she came for. She will protect the ones she loves. She will stop the dragon named Yoh’r Ruk.

Written for Bean's Writing Group. As with my last Bean fic, the context of the prompt is a bit of a spoiler, so I'll share the prompt in the closing Author's Notes.