To explain after we were told we were chosen and we were going away from the orphanage, the mistress complained and argued with the dragon tamers that were there. They stopped her and gave her the facts along with the need of the dragonets that had chosen the few children out of about thirty. It was myself, Cassey and a few others. But the rest were stuck there. To grow up and go on with their lives, or to get a family to grow up with.
The next hour saw us packing the few belongings we had and getting in the vans provided for us. Our dragons seated next to us... Mine loved on me as did another with her chosen human... Jim.
Besides that that started our lives.
The first year we learned of how to care for our dragons, oiling and cleaning the scales and skin. Cleaning ourselves. Then just making our dragon, or dragoness, happy. The second year saw us training to fly, we all thought the dragons grew fast, well they did, but not in the matter of months that I imagined. It was over the course of a year that saw her big enough for me to climb onto her back, but not fly.
In fact we had been band from flying until they said we could. I didn't like that, and Lilly shared my dislike.
Lilly... that is what I called my dragoness, she rejected any other name, noble or not. Till I called her Lilly. She liked that name and loved me for it.
This year we found that she could fly. And well she had to exercise those wings. Well because we wanted to fly, I had to encourage her to exercise her wings so that they grew strong, and brought us that much closer to flying.
I looked over the exercieses she did, two stretches and two wing workouts. That was all that they had for it. No amount of thought found any other that could be done besides putting weight on her wings, which I asked and the other tamers discouraged such attempts. So She had to work it at that level.
Over time she grew stronger, and her wings grew bigger too because of it. After that she grew a bit more.
I thought it was an average growth, but once I saw the other dragons of the group and saw they didn't grow, I asked around... a few theories came up: She was a queen dragoness, next was she wanted to fly so bad that she grew, and last was the exercises we did forced her body to grow bigger to support it.
Regardless there was more dragoness for me.
On the last of the year we were given the go ahead for short flights, and only to the point of discomfort for our dragons. Lilly had no such problems and we flew often. We were granted longer flights because of that.
During the third year I had to find my place among the dragon tamers, there were three faction: one of trainers and searchers, two of riders, and three of hunters.
Trainers and searchers took dragonets out and looked around different towns and orphanages to find children that the dragons would look for.
Riders, they worked with their dragons to explore the world, serve in a military service, and keep the peace between wild dragons and humans.
Hunters, had the job of providing for the covenants of dragon tamers. Covenants were everywhere, and they needed hunters to go and get the wild beasts or herds of domesticated cows, goats and other herd animals for food for the dragons, They may even fish if they live near a big enough body of water, namely an ocean.
I found my place among the...
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