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Chapter 56 - A Thunder of Dragons
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Much later, the group are standing at a raised dais made from the bricks of the attic rooms. It was a twisting tower which wound up into an open platform on top.
“Are you sure we won’t get into trouble for this?” Dorin asked again.
“Rest assured, there is nothing to worry about,” Lady Lucille smiled at him. “All the mortals in the dormitory are currently in a deep slumber.”
“It’s that green dragon,” Seb whispered to Dorin. “That’s a wind dragon, it has the ability to put others to sleep...” he pointed at a huge blue dragon “See that one? That is an ice dragon... And that one,” this time he pointed at another dragon, a gigantic red one with golden scales on its chest, much like Johan’s Dragon. It had sharp golden horns framing the top half of its head like a crown, and 3 pairs of piercing red eyes. “That is an adult Czar dragon.”
“They have come to welcome the new hatchling,” Lady Lucille said beside them. “It’s been so long since a new Czar drag
psynoid_alOne Way Talk... The collective noun for dragons is called 'a flight of dragons', 'a weyr of dragons', 'a school of dragons' (like a fish?) or 'a wing of dragons'. I decided to use 'a thunder of dragons', which means a group of dragons in flight. Apparently the term was coined by Christopher Paolini, author of 'Eragon' :)
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