CHAPTER FIVE “I know all about my birth.” Kail responded to Claskan’s story. “You really need to get to the point. I’m falling asleep.” Claskan looked incredulously at the young dragon and thought of where he should pick the story up. It was after her death that things really took a turn for the worse. This would be the best place to pick it up. * * * * Shortly after Emareth’s funeral the recently appointed leader of the humans came to pay his respect to the newly widowed dragon. When his head fell to the ground in a pool of his own blood Ocelot declared all humans were to be captured and treated as slaves. Claskan could only watch in horror as his troops were sent to the villages that had already been discovered and slaughtered the people or enslaved them. Slaves filed into the castl

