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“I was concussed!” Ravi howled, a whine in the words

“Ravi, focus” Alric took in a deep breath hi obvious about it The world at large thought dragons were extinct, and it was a rued for the simple fact that it made life a little easier

Revealing hi he very much wanted to avoid

The annual Dragon Festival was in full throttle, the city streets packed with an estimated fifty thousand people, and it was literal chaos People froathered here for the three-day event For a town that normally had only twenty-thousand inhabitants, the additional influx of people strained the sea

Alric’s noron Festival each year was to hide in his castle, in the mountains, with several bottles of select wine He drank steadily through the event until it—and his hangover—had mercifully passed He avoided the festival with ue

And yet, here he was in the ainst hi aside froe’ he wouldn’t have h to mobilize the entire clan

They hadn’t seen a new e in over five hundred years Alric had prayed, and hoped, and searched for iven up on it entirely Hearing of a e here, so close to his home, was as incredible as it was odd Why now? Why here? Surely it couldn’t be coincidence

Assuht

For the young dragon’s sake, he’d better be Alric really would wring his neck if he’d gotten all of their hopes up for nothing

Also, fortunately for Ravi, none of the revelers seethe festival to the fullest Dragon audy, and covered in sequins or glitter—were either on people’s heads or shoved to the side to give the wearer roo on-theons were a little off, even accounting for artistic license