Author: ueoai

Chap. 94  The trouble with fire lizards “In a way, I wish you’d not smeared numbweed on this wound,” Salish, the dragonhealer muttered, as she dressed the wound on Raventh’s tail. “It will make it a lot more difficult to tease out the DNA. But-we know that Raventh’s a dragon, and numbweed’s a plant, so…

Chap. 93  The Sea Creature At last. Not that he’d disliked it, but D’nis felt he’d accomplished something-no, THEY’D all accomplished something that hadn’t been done before. They’d gone from one end of the continent to the other, conducting a scientific survey. It may just have been a straight line, preliminary investigation, but it had…

Chap. 92 The Water Hole “I can see the ocean!” B’rost called, excited. From their viewpoint in the sky, they could see the fog wreathed coast. This, then, was almost the end of their survey of the Southern continent. “Not quite yet, lads,” D’nis called, “We must maintain discipline in the survey. We’ll drop down…

Chap.91  The Chase They’d been working their way steadily south, surveying the steppe. K’ndar had asked to visit the site they’d been chased from by the locusts before they continued on. “I don’t know, K’ndar, seems to me the steppe would rather not we be there,” D’nis said. “Just a brief stop, sir, to see…

Chap. 90  Guardians of the steppe The “team”, as they’d come to call themselves, had resumed their expedition of the steppe. Now fully aware of how quickly a tornado could come up, they paid close attention to the meterological hallmarks of the storm cells that could spawn them. Today, was not one of those days.…

Chap. 89  The horsetrader Siskin flew to him as he approached, outrageously happy to see him. K’ndar offered him a shoulder, then began scratching his head. The blue rolled his eyes, purring in happiness. He missed you. He was a very good boy, he didn’t try to leave. He stayed right here with me, even…

Chap.88 Showdown at the horse auction There was a very large crowd of people around the main auction ring. Many of them were ranchers and farmers, but there were others as well, hold dwellers, craftsmen, traders. Lizard had told him he’d be selling a black bay horse and would be in disguise. In one of…

Chap. 87  The Saddle Man He was on his way to the horse pens. Putza, Terylin’s green fire lizard, followed him until Terylin was assured that he was no longer being followed. He weaved his way through the throngs of Gather goers when he spied several saddles and dragon harnesses spread out in the shade…

Chap. 86 The Hunters and the Hunted Siskin warbled a welcome. K’ndar looked up from his breakfast (he was eating in his weyr, this morning,) to see Lizard’s bronze fire lizard appear. By now, K’ndar had learned to always keep a little bit of food for the fire lizards. He offered some to the bronze,…

Chap. 85  Tree Huggers Surveying the steppe was put on hold for the time being. It was harvest season, and everyone who could do work was out in the fields and forests, harvesting crops, hay, fruit and grains, to put away for the coming winter season. K’ndar was grateful for the fact that Raventh was…