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The next morning the estate was populated by servants who did not wear Margoro’s colors. The kitchen building had been extended with a large tent in which a dozen helpers plucked poultry, gutted fish and stirred dough in large bowls. In a hall on the first floor, long tables were set up and laid with brown and green glass tableware. In the breakfast room, maids placed food and drink on the two sideboards; two of them remained then to serve.
This time Nanja didn’t have to have breakfast alone with Margoro. He had invited the six men who would ride his dragons. They were dressed like fops: copper, pink, blue, green, purple and orange – everyone wore shirts and breeches in the color of their dragons. On top of that one sleeve was green, the other brown to mark them as Margoro’s rider. Of
