The Dragon Healer of Tone (World of Tone) by A. D. Adams Page B

even though she still had a nagging fear about the whole thing.
    The next morning Terra, Fienna, and Lowlack flew to the place Lowlack used to watch the humans. Terra climbed to Fienna’s head and peered out at a lake with a number of small little things moving around it.
    “I can’t see much. Can we get closer?” Terra said as he strained to see.
    “No, if we go closer, they will run. They’re all deathly afraid of dragons.” Lowlack said.
    Fienna thought to Terra, “Watch through my eyes. I can see them quite good.”
    He closed his eyes and focused on what Fienna was seeing. They were like him, some small, some large. Then he saw a woman that was just going into the water for a swim. She was different than he.
    “Lowlack, what is that one going into the water? It looks deformed.”
    “No, that’s a female; it is supposed to look like that.”
    “Are you sure?”
    “Yes, the running beasts are the same.”
    As Terra thought about the different beasts he had encountered, he realized they were different as Lowlack had said. They stayed until dark and then flew back to the cave. Several sun-risings passed before they went back. This time Lowlack decided to show them one of the places he got the seed rocks that Terra ate. He had five or six because he didn’t want to scare the humans at any one place too much, or they would stop coming. He had done that when he first started getting them for Terra. As they landed on a hill above the area, Terra could see through Fienna’s eyes the small mounds and the humans taking the rocks out of them. They loaded the rocks into the spider webs and put them into wooden things tied to beasts. Then suddenly several humans riding on beasts came running into the area and leaned over and grabbed the rocks and then rushed off into the forest. Terra felt as if he should do something to stop them. He wasn’t quite sure why though.
    Lowlack told them to stay there as he was taking off. They could see Lowlack fly high into the air then dive at the humans who were running from the mounds. When they saw him, they dropped their bundles and pushed their beasts into the forest. Lowlack then landed and picked up the bundles of seed rocks and flew back to the two.
    “Lowlack, what was going on down there?” Fienna said.
    “Oh, the ones on the beast are lazy humans. They don’t want to do the work of making the rocks themselves, so they take them.”
    “That’s disgusting; no dragon would ever rely on another dragon for food,” Fienna said.
    “You’re right. No dragon would, but a few of the humans do. Not many just a few. Most of them work hard all the time.”
    “Is that how you always get the rocks for me.”
    “No, most of the time I wait until the last of the females are leaving the area, and I fly over and scare them. They usually force the beast to run, and a few of the bundles fall out of those wooden things. I then just land and pick them up. I never hurt any of them. I just scare them.”
    As they flew back to cave, Fienna thought to Terra. “Would you like to go back to your kind?”
    “You’re my kind. You’re the only kind I want to be with. I have no desire to leave you or our home.”
    With that Fienna’s fears finally disappeared. She now knew her Terra would never leave her even for a human woman.

Chapter 29 - Reproduction
    (All young must learn the Mysteries of Life.)
    347 set of seasons since the coming of the Averons
     
     
    Fienna, Dawra and, of course, Terra were flying along the coast when Fienna saw a group of male dragons fly beautiful patterns in the sky. She landed on a nearby cliff to watch. Dawra landed next to her while Terra dismounted and sat on the cliff edge.
    “What are they doing?” Fienna asked her mother.
    “They’re male dragons vying for mating privileges with a female.
    See her sitting on the cliff over there.” Dawra pointed at a bright red dragon watching from the top of the highest cliff on this part of the coast.
    “Why are