Bonus Scene Aeron
Five Years Later
The nursery smelled like woodsmoke and fresh hay, which was exactly how a room full of baby dragons should smell. There was a large fire built in the hearth nearby and even if one of the hatchlings did set the hay on fire by accident, they were fireproof even at this young age. I stood in the doorway with a wriggling bundle of copper scales under one arm and watched my siblings tumble over each other like a litter of overgrown cats.