The auditorium fills with the people I"ve been spending the past few days with. I haven"t asked for anyone"s name, other than Marina"s. With what"s going to happen next, I figure it"s best if I don"t know them. Even knowing one person is dangerous enough.
My new friend sniffles next to me. I reach out and take her hand in mine, giving it a squeeze. Her smile is as shaky as I expect it to be, but I don"t say anything about it. She doesn"t need to know that her emotions are obvious on her face. There are only thirty-six hours left until the Dragon Duels start, and they"re finally about to tell us how the whole thing works. Well, probably not all of it. Somehow, I feel as if they"ll see that as giving us an unfair advantage or something like that. As if being around dragons was ever going to
