Cam
It's good to see daylight.
I've been blind for seven months, or so Mother says. She and Father tell us how proud they are often.
Chacen and Fate have opened their eyes, too. Fate keeps saying things like, "Sight feels so good!"
Chacen is... odd. He doens't speak much, and when he does, it's hard to understand. He once asked me, "Why d'you think we have four claws on our feet and only three on our hands?"
Search me.
**
Fate
Oh, scratch Chancen! Cam is more fun; he plays "rough-and-tumble" whenever I ask him. Maybe he's being nice to his only sister.
Chase will just mutter something and turn away. I wonder if he likes me; I hope so.
**
Chacen
It's rough, having such a weak voice.
Liana always says it's a blesing. "If you listen twice as much as you talk," she'll tell me, "you'll learn twice as much. Keep those ears open, Chase."
I do, and it's surprising what I hear. The tribe's given up on Avari and Chaz; they have to be wrong! I don't want to miss meeting my grandfather.
**
Cam
Whew! That was a good game. We're both sweating an grinning like fools.
Even Chacen joined in this time. He's gotten strong; it took me and Fate to pin him. "You win," he says.
"Geez, you sound blue. What is it?"
Chase shakes his head. "They aren't coming back," he says.
"Who?" Fate and I ask.
"Grandfather and Chaz; the hatchlings too." He sniffs away a tear. "They would've been our cousins."
I rub my head in the orange-and-black fur of his chest. "What makes you think so?"
"It's been months. Either Avari got killed, or he ran away."
"No!" Fate snarls. "Granddad would never run away from us!"
**
Fate
I hope I'm right; I hate the though of Granddad being a coward.
Our cousins... what would they look like? Dad told us dragons could have as many as twelve hatchlings. Twelve!
Anyway, I hope they're alive.
