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Derkas glanced down the hill toward the Dragon Hatchery. He shivered with nervousness, and he didn’t know if he was ready to take the next step. Taking a deep breath, glancing to Zaviana and Devarius behind him, he stretched out his fingertips and made his way down the hill. What he had to do would not be easy. Derkas had to convince the nursery that he indeed was a noble and that his letter of recommendation for a dragonling was legitimate.
He’d spent hours the previous night and that morning reading over the scroll they had acquired from the noble. He’d checked to make sure that it was a legitimate letter and not some farce the noble had attempted in order to look extraordinary in front of his friends at the pub. Even this morning, Derkas was not entirely convinced and he raised his
