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"I’m not sure," I answered "Four or five kilo, but there were rey peaks which blended with the clouds, which e hadn’t noticed them before

"We can be there soon if we - row hard," Harkat noted

"So let’s row," I grunted, and we set to our task with renewed vigour Harkat was able to row faster thanany human blood to drink - but I stuck my head down and pushed er to make the safety of land, where at least we could find a bush to hide under if ere attacked

We’d covered about half the distance when the air overhead reverberated with the sa sounds that had interrupted our slu, we looked up and spotted so far above It see way up

"What the hell is it?" I gasped

Harkat shook his head in answer "It s to create - this h up"

"Do you think it’s spotted us?" I asked

"It wouldn’t be hovering there otherwise," Harkat said

The flapping sound and accoure swooped towards us with frightening speed, becoht it meant to torpedo us, but it pulled out of its dive ten or so antic wings and flapped to keep itself steady The sound was ear shattering

"Is that - what I - think it is?" I roared, clinging to the raft as waves broke over us, eyes bulging out of my head, unable to believe that this monster was real I wished with all

"Yes!" Harkat shouted, shattering nized it!" The Little Person crawled to the edge of the raft to gaze at thecreature of myth He was petrified, like reen eyes "I’ve seen it before - in htmares," he croaked, his voice only barely audible over the flapping of the extended wings "It’s adragon !"