Her heart, once pledged to hollow throne,
Now beats for one whose path is lone.
For Kenneth, prince with heart of stone,
Knows naught of flame nor dragon bone.
Ryuki
‘So, what’s the plan?' I ask Bynjym.
‘We’re going to pick her up and bring her here to Ylys,’ he says.
I stare at my dragon. ‘You can’t just fly into a castle, pluck her off the ground, and bring her here,” I say.
‘Why not?’
‘Because it’s dangerous.” I say slowly, as if my dragon is missing the vital point of this conversation. ‘Because they have harpoons. Because they want us dead.’
‘They don’t want us dead, they just want our eggs,’ he says, ignoring my aggravation that the dragons aren’t taking this more seriously.
‘Do you really think that if you start scooping up their people they won't start hunting all of us
