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"You won’t lack for learning But nothing teaches like experience Even up here, you’d be a drake can experience" He tapped the drakka next to him on the nose

The Copper tried to close an ear to his ya questions How ht across the river, the size of the herds driven underground fro space in the Skotl Hill…

The Copper caught only bits of Rethothanna’s perforh here in this deep fastness, and told how he rose to preeminence after a series of duels and feuds between Skotl, Anklene, and Wyrr lines that divided the dragons of the Lavadoid hierarchy where even the lowest dragons at least coonelle a queen"

The Copper wondered what it was like to be one of even the lesser lords around the banquet, so i by others They onelle would not be pleased to be a queen?

But there were queens and there were Queens Rethothanna dropped in a few lines of praise for Tighlia’s beauty, "a flower of the Skotl line, plucked and placed as high as any Wyrr for all to adas at that, loudly enough that Rethothanna had to pause until he was finished

"I do beg your pardon," Sion turned to stone by the power of your words"

During kern, a thick, yellowish paste full of sestion, Rethothanna finished with FeHazathant’s victory at the duel of Black Rock, after which the "iron-willed, steel-lion assuon who ruled and coe of the Sorcerer, when Ankleeneration," Si to come after the Tyr dies? That’s what concerns me I’ve no aons can be ruthless in getting what they want"

The dragons spat torf-sized gobs of fla them, and Rethothanna bowed to the crackle and hiss of water turned instantly to stea flame into the sandpit at the center of the banquet "So polished, and all the gris left out I don’t like brave deeds tarnished, you know Come, Rethothanna, take first position there and eat your fill"

A dragon, wings thick with red laudi, ons rearranged themselves around the banquet

The Tyr thumped his tail "Now I have an announcement Our Uphold in Bant has suffered sohter tribes there are set upon and need our assistance I’ht"

"Bant Oh, how tiresome," Sie without starting some new feud"

The Copper would have liked to ask what the ue

"I don’t need to tell anyone at this table how important Bant is to our food supply I’ve decided that SiDrakkon shall go and help our Upholder in Bant, ulowered, going even more purple about the cheeks He reared his head back, but the Copper saw his sister quickly put her head across his neck and whisper so in his ear

"He’s not even of the Ihlia said "My brother is only to ‘help’ hion The Bant are a raucous crowd, argu as boars He kno to handle the whom Two more like him in the Upholds and we’ll be skeletons down here Food is short enough"

The Copper wondered at that, with thralls sweating and groaning under the weight of the platters that flowed around the banquet But perhaps exceptions were made for banquets

"I want full powers," SiDrakkon said "As the Tyr’s representative Three good, battle-tested dragons And three sissa of the Drakwatch to support"

"I don’t want another surface war," Tyr said "The hominids lose ten thousand and we lose ten, and they have a fresh ten thousand before ten eggs are even laid"

"Let on," SiDrakkon roared The whole table went quiet

Tyr stood

Thralls hurried to throw more sticks of incense in the braziers, and a thick, sweet odor fell over the banquet

The Tyr glared at his h," he said in a steady voice "Best to speak softly, with a fearsoons As to the Drakwatch, I want Nivo the three siisa He’s impressed me I understand he’s quite driven the de the far shores"<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>