As the knife plummeted, my hope fell with it. I hung there on the net for a few beats and then Adwyn arrived.


    pulled.


    done. Dragons flew so much faster in the air than we can hobble across the ground. They couldn''t escape us now.


    twistier.


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    When I dropped out of the sky in front of the cart, the only difference I noticed was the mother and fledgling had been chained, and there were six more guards orbiting the pile of seeds and seedbags — the cracked cart was gone.


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