Until... recently her own small village had seemed all but forgotten and no one had ever come looking for candidates. Up where she had lived, lost in the mountains, far from everywhere, hardly anyone ever came.
But they'd certainly left often enough. Looking for work, for a future - for dragons and, she supposed, fame. She'd found all the others, but never her dragon dreamer. Sometimes, late at night when things seemed long and heavy, she wondered if he'd made it anywhere at all. For reassurance, she stroked her own dragons neck and wondered if she'd ever find a point where she stopped asking and gave up.
"I've asked other riders. Ones from other Holds. No one's ever heard of a spiky haired blond dragonrider."
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Until... recently her own small village had seemed all but forgotten and no one had ever come looking for candidates. Up where she had lived, lost in the mountains, far from everywhere, hardly anyone ever came.
But they'd certainly left often enough. Looking for work, for a future - for dragons and, she supposed, fame. She'd found all the others, but never her dragon dreamer. Sometimes, late at night when things seemed long and heavy, she wondered if he'd made it anywhere at all. For reassurance, she stroked her own dragons neck and wondered if she'd ever find a point where she stopped asking and gave up.
"I've asked other riders. Ones from other Holds. No one's ever heard of a spiky haired blond dragonrider."