I hardly need another woman in my life telling me what to do, and it would mean I could do all the talking and she the listening.” “On second thought, perhaps it wouldn’t be dreadful at all. “She isn’t mute, is she? That would be dreadful.” He leaned back against the chair, his strange eyes fixed on me. Tristan peered at me as though I were a curious insect.

“Even if I hadn’t a gag of magic in my mouth, I wouldn’t have dared spoken. Sutherland, quote from The Hidden Kingdom The map she’d memorized didn’t exactly have borders drawn on it, not that those would have helped her out here anyway.” “Or didn’t you know that?” It isn’t? she thought. What are you doing in the Ice Kingdom?” “Technically this isn’t the Ice Kingdom yet,” he said. He looked up at the sky with a puzzled expression. The silver scales sparkling under his wings caught the morning light like trapped stars. He was a lot younger and smaller than Morrowseer, wiry and graceful in his movements even when he was startled. “Who are you, and what are you doing in our territory?” The NightWing leaped up in surprise and stared at her. “Hey!” she barked, landing with a thump beside him. For a moment she was afraid she’d lost him, before she realized that he was lying down, his black scales half-hidden in the long shadows. She leaped into the air and flew back to the spot where she’d seen the strange dragon. Somehow it didn’t sound as funny as she’d hoped. Well, she thought ruefully, if he figures me out, I guess I’ll just kill him. and she really, really wanted to know what a NightWing was doing out here. Maybe there’s no way I’ll get away with it.

She also couldn’t make her claws ridged like IceWing claws, and her tail wasn’t as whip-thin at the end as an IceWing’s would be. She concentrated on making her ruff look like it was made of icicles and hoped that would do. The hardest part was the extra horns IceWings had around their heads. She felt the changes shimmer across her scales.

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