Dragon's Blood
“Jakkin's Bond-Off coincided with the day of the fight. He was dressed and off to the oasis as the cold of Dark-After was still receding, a paper sack containing a slab of meat between two slices of bread inside his shirt. It was left over from the evening's meal. He had been too excited to eat it, almost too excited to sleep.
At the oasis he polished the red's scales from tip of tail to nostril slits. The first polishing was in the stream, where he made a mud bath of the sand, stirring up the s...treambed until the water ran brown. The second was on shore, where he dried the dragon with an extra shirt Akki had provided.
Well before the full sunrise, Jakkin was walking out across the desert, the dragon trotting docilely at his heels, heading first north and then west, well away from the nursery, to a ford in the Narrakka River. He had promised to meet Akki and her friend there.
The truck was waiting. He recognized it from Akki's description, but caution, an old habit, claimed him.MoreLess
At the oasis he polished the red's scales from tip of tail to nostril slits. The first polishing was in the stream, where he made a mud bath of the sand, stirring up the s...treambed until the water ran brown. The second was on shore, where he dried the dragon with an extra shirt Akki had provided.
Well before the full sunrise, Jakkin was walking out across the desert, the dragon trotting docilely at his heels, heading first north and then west, well away from the nursery, to a ford in the Narrakka River. He had promised to meet Akki and her friend there.
The truck was waiting. He recognized it from Akki's description, but caution, an old habit, claimed him.MoreLess
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