It's hardly all fun and games, mounting and traversing rooftops for a living, but a chimney sweeper's got to earn his keep. As he merrily goes about his business in the days preceding the dragon expedition, while Eidris is overground, Sylvain might notice a few interesting behaviours among the various dragons that are allowed to fly and stretch their wings without their riders:
■ One very early morning, for two hours, a minority of dragons seems to float listlessly, as if they struggle to remember where and how they have ended up mid-flight
■ These dragons appear indifferent to the humans who call them and refuse to 'connect' and enter the image-based communication of their species. Dragon riders and dragon guards are often on the rooftops, seeking to signal these dragons down with lights and lanterns, or to draw them close with treats and rein them in. These people complain that the dragons are 'roaming' or 'scattered' — a mood that they claim strikes some dragons from time to time inexplicably; they always seem to recover from it
■ The fire-bearing martial dragons intercede to shepherd the transport dragons back into 'good behaviour.' The interactions are firm but peaceful, and typically take place when the 'roaming' dragons seem to fly higher and higher, closer to the sun — revealing, for a flicker of a second, the stretch of their membranous skin reduced to just bones. The dragons are always normal, when they come down.
sylvain
It's hardly all fun and games, mounting and traversing rooftops for a living, but a chimney sweeper's got to earn his keep. As he merrily goes about his business in the days preceding the dragon expedition, while Eidris is overground, Sylvain might notice a few interesting behaviours among the various dragons that are allowed to fly and stretch their wings without their riders:
■ One very early morning, for two hours, a minority of dragons seems to float listlessly, as if they struggle to remember where and how they have ended up mid-flight
■ These dragons appear indifferent to the humans who call them and refuse to 'connect' and enter the image-based communication of their species. Dragon riders and dragon guards are often on the rooftops, seeking to signal these dragons down with lights and lanterns, or to draw them close with treats and rein them in. These people complain that the dragons are 'roaming' or 'scattered' — a mood that they claim strikes some dragons from time to time inexplicably; they always seem to recover from it
■ The fire-bearing martial dragons intercede to shepherd the transport dragons back into 'good behaviour.' The interactions are firm but peaceful, and typically take place when the 'roaming' dragons seem to fly higher and higher, closer to the sun — revealing, for a flicker of a second, the stretch of their membranous skin reduced to just bones. The dragons are always normal, when they come down.