Waking from her slumber, the dragon glanced toward her sleeping mate, and gave him a gentle nuzzle before slipping away from him and the nest.

keeping as quiet as she could, muscles twitched as she pushed off the edge of the lair, and catching a thermal, she glided with ease toward the caverns around the Glen, that was the last place she'd come across the tamer, and she'd promised Star that she'd keep an eye out for Aerendir.

Keeping downwind, she hovered a moment, searching out any sign of trackways that would tell her just where her cousin was being kept.

Three days now it had been, three days since Star had come to her with the news that her cousin was missing, two days since her last encounter with the dragon tamer, still, she wasn't going to give up, and gliding along, she searched high and low for any sign at all.