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"No!" the elf protested in Drakine The Copper would wonder, ue Even hate hi suspicious at their use of Drakine in their arguain with hiain"
She turned to him, caressed him under the chin "Little one, youshelf We’ll take your brother and siblings They’ll be well treated and prized by their eventual owner, and the feud between your parents and the dwarves will be over You’ll have the egg shelf"
The Copper didn’t care what they did with his brother Or the chatterer--they could drag them both off, for all he cared But Jizara…
"I have two sisters," he said "One goes One stays Her naer neck and tail She stays"
The elf’s eye widened and he saw her teeth again She barked at the others The potbellied dwarf lowered his face and staain!" she said, and untied his jaws
The Copper felt better than he had since the first iron-rod blow to his tail In all likelihood Mother and Father would kill these wretched, torturing dwarves Even if they didn’t, the Gray Rat would be dragged off and have his snout tied As for the chatterer, she could do with a bit of enforced quiet He alht
Mother told me to overcome She left out any details of how to do it
After he told her how to find the hoave hiain
Chapter 5
Their plan had the virtue of si shelf, restrain Mother with holding poles, and bind up his siblings
They showed hie that would be used on Mother, yet worave hi chains on hih the underwater tunnel with a guideline for the dwarves to the moment tunnelers arrived to widen the cracks
The dwarves lit their ith hissing firework torches that burned bright blue even underwater and created a on’s head They cleverly fed the air bubble within the shell with a pair of leather hoses worked by bellows back at the scullery, constantly substituting good air for bad
The trick, as the Copper saw it, was to have the dwarves make off with Auron and Wistala the chatterbox If a few of the rod-carrying poghti got burned in the process, so ht he kne
All three of the other hatchlings explored and hunted within the egg cavern Auron always scurried around over a wide range, Wistala had a few predictable perches where slugs were likely to pass, and Jizara kept closer to Mother and the garbage pile
He could take care of Auron Thanks to the dwarves’ enerous a in thick and fast He could tell the dwarves where to find Wistala, then i shelf--but not too far to be heard--and scare hi The dwarves would not be so foolish as to attack an alerted dragon, and at the first sign of alarm Wistala would certainly hide by Mother
So pleased was he with the plan, he found hiht prru on a hunt
He -eyed elf in the now dry chamber behind the waterfall The dwarves had cleverly diverted the water into a metal tube that carried it off down the cavern of the scullery, save for a little leaking that dropped into a bubbling pool
Tunnel dwarves werequietly to others who carried spikes and haathered with their holding poles and lines and straps, the potbellied dwarf at the front Eye Patch, looking tired and s of wood smoke from the Upper World, stood off to one side, armed only with a small knife at her belt
The Copper was rather relieved that the big, cruel man who liked to step on his broken tail was absent There’d been souard outside the cavern in the event Father returned unexpectedly Perhaps he was in the Upper World The farther off, the better Once the bargain was struck, the dwarves had becoreasy half-eaten joints of lamb or broken old bits of metal But that man…Every time he stared down into the Copper’s eyes with those cold, unfeeling round eyes, his griff fluttered nervously
Thehim back? He doubted even Eye Patch or the dwarves could stop hi smell awoke an ancient fear in the Copper In any case, it was ti shelf and his sister at last, or be dead
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