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There was silence among us for a moment before Blackbeak let out a guffaw. “You’re joking, right? That sounds like something out of a trashy fantasy novel.”
Rodney shook his head. “I am afraid it is no laughing matter, and quite real.”
I frowned. “You never told us about any seal before.”
He folded his arms over his chest. “I had hoped to keep the seal a secret for a while yet, or perhaps even to the remainder of my days.”
Blackbeak flapped his wings. “Quit the mysterious blabbing and just tell us what it is.”
Rodney sighed. “The Seal of the Dragon is a legend passed down through my wife’s-” He paused and his gentle eyes fell on me. “-that is, your mother’s family. It tells of a large vault beneath a great field where a*****e of Heaven Stones was kept by the ancient kings,
