CHAPTER TWENY-NINE
“FOR YOUR FINAL task, I need to know the answer before sunrise.” I scratched my head. “Before sunrise?” He nodded his big purple-and-yellow head. “It is greater than God and more evil than the Devil. The poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you will die. What is it?” “You’re asking me another riddle?” I wanted to pull out my hair. As if all the other riddles weren’t enough. “Oh, I love riddles,” the dragon said with a smug look. “You have until sunrise. If you don’t know the answer to it, you will stay here forever.” He began walking toward the castle and disappeared through the big steel door. I realized what the Sacred Cavern was all about, a cave full of riddles and brainteasers. All these years, the people of Paegeia were afraid of nothing, and I wondered why dragon
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