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"Good," SiMevolant said "I want to introduce sonity and security for generations to come Mmmmmm? I present our new ally, recently sent here from the Alliance of the Golden Circle"

A tall hominid in black scale armor stepped from behind the curtains and strode forward so he stood next to SiMevolant He had gray hair flecked here and there with black, and a slightly darker beard hanging fronized the aronblade stood before the audience

Chapter 27

Tighlia turned again, knocking over two members of the Drakwatch

"How dare you! How dare you!" Every scale stood straight up on her skin, her wings half-opened as they shook with fury; her griff rattled, and slime poured out each side of her mouth

"On the shelf where et the words out "You bring a human arrayed for war? A spear and a draord, atop the Black Rock? No man hlia," the Copper said "He kills dragons for a living"

The Dragonblade tipped his spear forward just a little Some of the audience squeezed out of the audience room; others shoved their way forward

"I expected to be challenged," the Dragonblade said "That it coed female surprises e of consequence," SiMevolant said

"Are you going to come down,your blood where he used to stand?"

"I’ve no wish to kill I o But a wise man convinced me your kind can be saved, if properly led and channeled I don’t want to begin hlia roared, shaking the timbers all the way to the roof, and juainst an ordinary man, even a warrior, she would have turned hiainst the obsidian stone of the Rock

The Dragonblade set his spear and she impaled herself upon it He rolled out fro cat righted itself The sword flashed up once, and liquid fire spilled across the Tyr’s shelf, a second tiruesohlia collapsed, all of her going li saa, which jerked and shuddered as though trying to fight on

SiMevolant looked down at her "What’s that, Granddam?…Well, first, I don’t believe in curses; second…Oh, dear, you’re gone I must learn to make my points more quickly"

"I wish she had stayed at home and enjoyed her wine," Imfamnia said

Liquid fire ran off the Tyr’s shelf To the Copper, the events on the Tyr’s shelf seemed a horizon distant, yet etched in vivid detail His head whirled

"Sand At once--now," I a curtain out of the ith her tail to keep it froonblade asked A drake tried to step forward, but NeStirrath pressed his heavy sii on the youth’s tail

The Dragonblade retrieved a decorative, jewel-encrusted goblet frohlia He filled his cup with the blood leaking out of her neck and drank, s his lips afterward

"Our future is in alliances, not war," SiMevolant said to the shocked assembly "United with these men, no power in the torlds may threaten us Let all who doubt this truth reun by a golden dragon Light the beacons, NoSohoth"

"Hurrah!" shouted the Dragonblade "The union forever!"

Ibidio slipped up next to the Copper "I must speak to you," she whispered, then switched to o to the hill of the Anklenes Once inside, ask for the senior doorwarden Tell him this: "Immortal Me but nod The swirl of onblade’s slaying of Tighlia, had left hiht back to her If I still live?

In the lore of the Lavadoht of the Desperate Deaths

To those who knew only vaguely of events within the In of theht blue as though by ic--the Copper knew very well it arvish chemicals, but what sort of mix the humans who lit the beacons used, he never could res of the Anklenes

And with that, hag-ridden dragons flew into the Lavado the war gossip that had been spreading ever since the Copper’s arrival with the news of Anaea, realized what the invasion portended and took to the air to ht lived