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Gazing II: Peer, part iii

    Dadafodd.


    biggest butte I had ever seen in Gwymr/Frina.  Opening from a front door wide like three dragons.  Made of natural rock blending with dustone and fire clay bricks, and black bamboo supports???—??which looked less a disparate hodgepodge than a uniting of different materials and constructions.  Peering out from glass slabs so thick you could see the light refract through them.


    So that’s what that was.”


    Is that all?”


    Not leaving would have been the obvious way to do that.”


    Could we stop her?”


    so close.  C’mon.”


    killed dragons.  We could have killed them, but we didn’t.  If we could spare them, they could have spared them.”


    My drakefriend?”  Blood rushed to my brilles.


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    Mawla had said she knew a drake.  I decided I did too.


    crwths.  They could have been the violins or harps of the sky, between the steady bowing and the delicate fingerings, but the instrument had more of a buzz to it.  They played harmony for the stubborn low melody of a pibgorn???—??some fatmouthed flute.


    bright???—??nourished a kind of the dim coziness I liked.  My dark scales blent with the dimness, and you could almost miss their hue.


    see the tension around the slabs where the other races sat.  Made it easy to tell where any (brownish) red scaled dragon would sit.


    doing something.


    for someone.


    Something was happening over there, and my feet were quietly carrying my curiosity before my mind had decided it really wanted to know.


    interesting about you, something that made you worth a second glance, worth a closer watch?  When you wanted to just sneak and eavesdrop, then return to your actual task?


    I hadn’t noticed them, that was the lie I told with my posture.  Visibly, I had all my attention on those four random dragons.


    when all the action was happening!  A whole skien of guards!”


    Inquirers.”


    Where is he, Ehnym?” a twin asked.  “He’d tell you.  He tells you everything.”


    just in case there were another Chwithach who’d had guards at his house.


    He speaks highly of you.  ‘Never seen one so quick with figures, or clawing so neat.’


    dragon.  He’s enamored with you, for all that you don’t deserve it.”


    you prattle on?”


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    “Yo, K,” Sinig said.  “I thought I told you not to lick after trouble.”  He raised a wing and languidly pointed an alula at Mawla.  “In case you don’t know, she is trouble.”


    back rest.  He lay on his back, one foreleg resting atop of the rest, the other held up to gesture or scratch his chin.  He was careless relaxation.


    this feel like Sinig holding court.


    dragons in the room.  Sinig.  Mawla.  Two others, at Sinig’s left and right (even though it really didn’t suit either of them) were Arall and Mawrion.


    he deferred to Sinig.  Mawrion, owner of the Llygaid Crwydro, Mawrion, the boss of Sinig.  Deferred to him.


    Pride.


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    We slinked out Sinig’s alcove quick, Arall high walking like she didn’t care if we followed.  Mawla was treading up in front of me, strutting right beside the big plain-dweller wiver.  She was grinning, Mawla was.


    equal way???—??for the first time.


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