The Princess's Dragon
“Sondra rushed out, anxious to view a real dragon’s hoard for herself.
They arrived back at the lair before sundeath, Tolmac determined to teach her to fly at the very next opportunity. His muscles ached from assisting her over the mountains. She was a small dragon, but even for him, practically carrying another adult dragon over mountains wasn’t a simple matter. They filed into his lair, wending through a maze of tunnels.
Sondra vaguely recognized the same tunnels she travelled previously and e...ven spotted melted rock where Tolmac flamed her as she ran away. She glanced back at him as they passed one spot where black glass gleamed darkly in the rock face.
“I missed on purpose, you know.” He defended himself, feeling strangely ashamed of his behavior at their first meeting. She didn’t answer, just mentally smirked at him and turned away to continue through the tunnels. He struggled to keep his mind on the task at hand and his tongue between his teeth as she sashayed ahead of him, her sinuous tale gliding back and forth in the red glow cast by molten rock bubbling in the mountainous cauldron below.MoreLess
They arrived back at the lair before sundeath, Tolmac determined to teach her to fly at the very next opportunity. His muscles ached from assisting her over the mountains. She was a small dragon, but even for him, practically carrying another adult dragon over mountains wasn’t a simple matter. They filed into his lair, wending through a maze of tunnels.
Sondra vaguely recognized the same tunnels she travelled previously and e...ven spotted melted rock where Tolmac flamed her as she ran away. She glanced back at him as they passed one spot where black glass gleamed darkly in the rock face.
“I missed on purpose, you know.” He defended himself, feeling strangely ashamed of his behavior at their first meeting. She didn’t answer, just mentally smirked at him and turned away to continue through the tunnels. He struggled to keep his mind on the task at hand and his tongue between his teeth as she sashayed ahead of him, her sinuous tale gliding back and forth in the red glow cast by molten rock bubbling in the mountainous cauldron below.MoreLess
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