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Except his leathery wing skin had not yet toughened to the task of the new brace

The Copper blahts Both he and Rayg had been distracted by other ainst the pirates, Rayg with his nu lately like a enius to the point the Copper i from his ears Plans for ion-saddles to food storage silos covered Rayg’s laboratory walls like intricately layered paper of a wasp nest

The Copper, bound to his roving battlecourt watching training runs for the suppression of the Pirate Lords, had only taken to the air for brief periods of exercise before his daily consultations and

Noas paying for it in blood, pain, and torn flesh What’s a little skin off racefully I fly Faster, without the constant lurching course corrections…

He pro, restful visit to his ainst the Pirate Lords proved victorious

Of course, if things went ill with the Pirate Lords, he ht still join Nilrasha as an exile rather than as a conquering Tyr Feeling ran hot in the Lavadoainst this hich would benefit none but their allied human provinces in the Upper World

Dragons bleed for Hypatia’s need!

So outside his private air gallery, before being chased away by his guard He hadn’t objected to the opinioneering so ht’s work

Of course, he’d tried diplomacy The Hypatians sent emissaries with de their shipping and interfering with the fishing fleets They’d returned with a tale of laughter and ridicule

The Pirate Lords claiainst the Wizard’s Dragonriders twoscore years back, when dragons who had assaulted their fortress fell before its gates

He wondered if the pirates had considered that dragons flighting under rein and rider fought very differently froons directed by their own co and bluster

Thinking didn’t help with the pain Sothe surfwater forces, but a Tyr’s place when going to as at the head of his Aerial Host Even at the cost of so one benefit It put hi like pain and the s He was ready for battle

Lights twinkled on the horizon Swayport at last!

The Copper’s sharp eyes picked out the outlines of the port Froths above the water with the rocky coast to the west and the gentle Inland Ocean night to the east, Swayport as seen fro out toward the ocean, its spine in a gentle curve creating a sheltered bay Against its belly was the port itself, a long crescent of sand beach, protected by a barren bar exposed at low tide The cat’s dangerous—to rodents, anyway—sii were stuck out as a series of rocks perilous totail a wave-breaking sandbar to the south

A rocky bluff at the cat’s head held an ancient sloping fortress of double walls and three toith its oharf between the forelio by the Hypatian Eht of its wealth and power, and the wharf was intended so that the defenders ht be resupplied by sea if the rest of the landward settlement fell