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    Dragon's Fire: Dragon Eggs, #4
    Dragon's Fire: Dragon Eggs, #4
    Dragon's Fire: Dragon Eggs, #4
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    Dragon's Fire: Dragon Eggs, #4

    By Emily Martha Sorensen

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    When Rose decided to correct an arrogant woman about her wrongheaded belief that dragons were not intelligent, it resulted in an unexpected complication: now that woman wants a dragon egg of her own.

    Hearing the news that two new eggs have awakened, Rose rushes with her dragon son to the museum in hopes of preventing such a catastrophe.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEmily Martha Sorensen
    Release dateJul 20, 2017
    ISBN9781386575979
    Dragon's Fire: Dragon Eggs, #4

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      Dragon's Fire - Emily Martha Sorensen

      Chapter 1: Forward

      The zoo was filled with people and an air of festivity.  It was the third day of the New Year, the crowd was brimming with excitement for the future, and a tiny blue dragon infant was sharing one of her mother’s memories.

      She was a beautiful, vain dragon, vibrantly blue, stretching out her long neck to show off her horns to the prospective mate she wished to have notice her.  The purple male ignored her, so she snorted fire in exasperation.  Must he be clueless?  She had been hoping to be coy.

      She raised her wings in a sharp flapping motion.  That caught the male’s attention for a moment, so she kept on beating them steadily, as if to launch off the ground.

      Of course she knew that she could no longer fly.  She was too heavy.  Flight was something only the smallest dragons kept to adulthood.  In fact, loss of flight was usually seen as a sign of maturity and readiness to procreate.

      Still, as with most dragons who reached adulthood, she could still glide.  She climbed atop the pile of boulders she had prepared, waiting until she was sure the male was watching.  Spreading her wings widely, she launched herself downwards, floated for a moment as the air caught her momentum, and then floated with easy grace to the ground.

      Yes.  Now she had his attention.  She flapped her wings and moved close enough to catch it as he let escape a flash of memory of how beautiful she’d been on her glide down.

      She fluttered her wings and waited for the admiration to continue.  She coyly kept her memories to herself as she admired the vibrant red-purple of his scales, different enough from her own color to show that he was not closely related, and therefore eligible.

      Oh, come now!  He was walking away!  Well, fine then!  She would be much more aggressive!

      Rose drew in a deep breath as she came back to herself.  The window into the courtship behaviors of another species was fascinating, and it was no wonder that the crowd seemed so enthralled, pushing closer and shouting for more.

      Still, Rose thought.  Still . . .

      Violet was very pleased that they liked her mother’s memory!  Violet would share one of her father’s!

      No, Rose thought.  You’re more than just a repository of your ancestors’ experiences.  You’re a very small child.  You should be . . .

      A new memory washed over her.

      His second child was poking at the new egg.  The purple boy wanted to know when the egg would hatch.

      Not yet, he indicated to the curious boy.  And poking the egg with one’s claws was not a good thing.  The little baby would be inside the egg for another season.  Until then . . .

      Tears sprang to Rose’s eyes as the memory faded, and she pushed backwards to get away.  She pushed through the crowd until she was reasonably sure the small blue dragon could not pick up her thoughts, and then she leaned against the bars of a cage with her head in her hands.

      All dead.  They’re all dead.  Every one of those people in her memories is dead.

      It was obvious, and yet nobody here seemed to realize the implications.  Dragons had gone extinct hundreds of thousands of years ago, all save the few Deinonychus antirrhopus eggs that had miraculously been recovered recently.

      Rose composed herself with difficulty, breathing in deeply.  Her son was the other dragon in New York City, and she must not let herself think too much about that tragedy.  The last thing she or Henry or Virgil needed was for the three-month-old baby to remember just how much he had lost, and how much he could never regain.

      Focus on the future, Rose reminded herself, opening her eyes.  Their species was lost, as was their entire civilization, and yet now they both have a second chance.  There are now two dragons in New York City, one in Washington D.C., and four in Vernal.  Soon there might be Deinonychus antirrhopus all over the country.

      A smile rose on her lips at the reminder, and Rose pulled away from the empty cage.  It almost did not even bother her that it was empty because it had been reserved in case a third dragon hatched in their city.

      She pushed through the crowd, burying her disappointment that the crowd had been too thick to have a

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