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But Gluttony ons, who can’t fly at their need

A hot Lust for glory, ge drakes to the blackest of fates

So take heed of this wisdoonhood are sure to be thine

Chapter 2

There weren’t any grays on er even than Mother, Father rested on asnake His fiery eyes, under the arlory, glowered down on the brood Father’s bronze scales reflected the ht of the caveodor, very different froray flank, a little afraid at Father’s tone, but resisted the instinct to close his eyes

"You know very well e at our , it didn’t bother you"

Father pulled back, raised his h, and snorted For a ht bite Mother

But he brought his head down and flicked his forked tongue, drawing it across her face "I atching your wings, my love They hypnotized me I had never seen such a span on a maiden before I hardly listened"

His parents touched noses at the

"We have every right to prumm to each other--three on the shelf Not bad for our first clutch," Mother said She pulled Auron’s two sisters closer to her with her tail The hatchlings peeped and yawned at the touch, but didn’t wake

"But still, of all the infernal drafts," Father continued "A red, a copper, and a gray What happens? The red is killed, the copper is ht well, er, i it"

"Just like his grandfather, darkness keep his bones A besung dragon, he I still don’t see how a gray got the better of hi horn, my lord"

"He did what?"

"Gutted him from the yolk sac up I hardly believed my eyes"

Father looked down at Auron, a new interest in his eyes "Clever little blighter"

"Eggs and legs! Don’t call the pride of our clutch a blighter, AuRel! Like it or not, he is your champion It’s for you to see that he lives to loose his first fire"

"I wonder," Father ray Thin skinned: the first elf with a bow that--"

"He’ll be quick Silent," his er to fill Reot awarriors, the pounding of hunting horses He felt old scars, crusted over with misshapen scales He shivered

"See!" Mother exclaimed "He takes to your ood time Perhaps the copper will reclaiht on him already, and is alert and quick"

Father looked down at the copper, who had retreated to a crevice in the cave wall away froht be kinder to just--"

"No He shall have his chance I hear his and rats Appetite will soon drive him outside You have fathered two s The words will sound fine in your lifesong"

Arht, covering sensitive earholes and the pulse points behind the angle in his jahere the twin neck hearts worked, then returned to their sheaths Auron felt his own griff descend a little, but they seeht A worthy line for the battle roar," Father said, as though he’d thought of the idea hih you th"

"I reh it was to my ears But I took to the sky with you nonetheless"