She knows what he's going through. He knows she hasn't got a clue. Both grapple with a mob boss for control of their fates.
News of a soon-to-hatch earth dragon bring Kaida and Seiryu to a prosperous farming town. At a woman's cry of "dabnor," Kaida expects to have to fight for survival again, but everyone's attention is on the boy climbing out a window.
Determined to help him, Kaida faces down apathetic townspeople, suspicious Discipliners, and a mob boss who says the boy belongs to him.
Now, if only the kid would give up his fixation on dragon Bonding. She was never that one-track minded, right
Action and adventure feature prominently in this fantasy novelette for young adults. It's a continuation of the story begun in The Bonding Race.