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Balerion

The Price of a Dragon

These humans were so stupid.

They thought that this great den was theirs, but it was his. He alone knew every passage, every secret door; he alone went everywhere. He knew more than they realized.

He knew the man with the black manticore was the one who had killed his girl, and that the yellow-cat men had told him to do it. He would have his revenge on them, the manticore man and the yellow-cat ones. He was a dragon, like his girl had been.

The yellow-cat men always paid their debts, and they owed him for his dragon girl.