Jane Yolen Pit Dragon 03 A Sending of Dragons

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Akki said. But how d you know to find us here? asked Jakkin.
Golden gestured with his head toward the dragons. They told us. The big
ones.
Sssargon and Sssasha, squatting on their haunches on either side of the
copter, managed to look bored.
They d been coming and going almost daily at the nursery these last two
weeks, circling and then landing by the incubam. Likkam thought he recognized
them as Heart s Blood s hatchlings. Said that golden slash on the nose of that
one was a dead giveaway.
Jakkin sent a quick burst of color toward Sssasha, which she returned with a
rainbow.
Likkam seemed to manage some kind of connection with them, Golden continued.
Even claimed he could understand them. I said he was a good guesser.
Very good guesser, Akki said, laughing.
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Golden rubbed his nose with his forefinger. Of course, maybe there s more to
it than I know. He said it
carefully.
Akki looked at Jakkin, her eyes widening.
Maybe, said Jakkin. And maybe not. As your wards we won t be answering
questions, or so you said.
That s right, Golden answered. That s what I said.
Then what comes next? Jakkin asked.
I ll take you back to the nursery farm now, said Golden. If you re ready to
come.
We re ready, Jakkin said.
Akki nodded her agreement and reached down to pick up the hatchling, who had
been lying against her ankles. The hatchling snuggled into her arms, its tail
looped around her wrist.
Jakkin watched Golden and Akki climb into the copter. He walked over to
Auricle and placed his hands on either side of her broad head.
Thou beauty, he sent. Try thy wings once more and, if thee will, follow
the others to the place where we live, the nursery. It will be a safe place
for thee and thy eggs.
He didn t wait for an answer. Whether she came to the farm or stayed in the
world, she was free of the tyranny of the caves. That was all that mattered
now.
Climbing into the copter, Jakkin sat behind Akki in a seat that seemed much
too soft for comfort. Golden turned and showed him how to buckle his seat belt
across his lap. Then he turned back to the copter console. As the great
machine engine started up the noise was deafening.
Golden shouted, his voice barely rising above the churning of the rotors, We
won t be able to talk much until we re down again. Too loud. He pointed to
the ceiling, then bent to fiddle with the controls, a panel of winking,
blinking lights that reminded Jakkin of fighting dragons eyes.
Jakkin put his hand on Akki s shoulder and their minds touched, a clear;
clean, silent meeting. Then he looked out the window as the copter rose into
the air. Austar stretched out below him in great swatches of color. He could
see the dark mountain with its sharp, jagged peaks and the massive gray cliff
faces pocked with caves. He could see tan patches of desert where five ribbons
of blue water fanned out from the darker blue of a pool, and the white froth
of the waterfall. Running into the waterfall was a blue-black river that
gushed from the mountainside like blood from a wound.
He sent a message to Akki full of wonder and light. This& this is true dragon
sight, Akki. We re like dragons in flight above our world.
Mind-to-mind they talked of it all the way back to the nursery and home. �
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