The Dragon Healer of Tone (World of Tone) by A. D. Adams Read Free Book Online

him and love him. A thing she had never seen before was now more important to her than her own mother.
    She opened her wings and thought to him, “Lie down my Terra, here in my wings.”
    Fienna now realized her mother’s head was right over her and Terra.
    Her mother asked if he had hurt her. She told her no; the pain was gone, and she could move her wing. Her mother licked Fienna’s wing and looked at it carefully.
    With surprise in her voice, she said, “It is healed; your wing is completely healed. There’s not even a sign of the injury.”
    She then moved her head back to look at Terra.
    Fienna heard her mother ask, “How did you do that?”
    Terra answered in a tired voice, “I don’t know. I do it.”
    Fienna didn’t understand her mother’s surprise at Terra’s answer.
    She told Fienna to push it away from her. Fienna suddenly felt very protective and told her mother that Lowlack had brought it to her. It was her’s, and she would not let them eat it. Her mother tried to calm her down and said she would not touch it. Fienna watched as her mother backed away with Lowlack to the other side of the cave. Terra then fell asleep in her wings. She did not mind; he had healed her, and she felt better than she ever had. She loved this little creature and wanted to keep him safe forever.

Chapter 13 - Care and Feeding of a Human
    (Care for the Innocence.)
    337 set of seasons since the coming of the Averons
     
     
    Dawra could hardly believe that the little human had healed her daughter, and it took only a few moments. This had obviously drained his strength. He could hardly move afterwards. Dawra and Lowlack had never seen magic work on a dragon, but she knew in the past magic was used to try to hurt not heal. So they both thought that perhaps only healing or good magic could be used on the dragons. Dawra also found it strange that this human could speak dragon. No other creature had ever spoken dragon. Perhaps his magic was strong enough to learn their language by a simple touch. Dawra felt strangely grateful to this Terra as Fienna called him.
    Dawra did have a problem. Her daughter had instantly developed an unbelievably strong attachment to the strange little creature. Dawra knew nothing about humans and had no idea what to feed this little thing, and after it awakened, it told Fienna it needed food. Lowlack had left and said he would return with something for it, but he had been gone all morning. Finally, in mid afternoon Lowlack returned. He carried a strange looking bunch of rocks in a spider-wed looking thing, which he dropped on the floor.
    “Lowlack what is that?” asked Dawra.
    “It’s food for the little human. I have been watching the humans for a long time. They do strange things. These are made from grass seeds.
    Every fall they cut the grass down and knock the seeds off. They then grind them up and make a powder. They mix the powder with water and put it in mounds that are heated by burning wood. When they take the seed mass out of the mounds, it looks like these.”
    He pointed to the rocks on the cave floor. The little human got up and walked to the rocks. He tore off a piece from one and ate it. He then took the whole rock and went back to Fienna where he sat down and began tearing little pieces off and eating them.
    “Tell me, Lowlack, what else do they eat?”
    “Well, lots of things. They pick these leaves from the ground and eat them raw. “
    ”Do they eat meat?”
    “Yes, but in a strange way. They first make a pile of wood, and then they start it on fire. Then they cut a small piece of meat and push a stick through it. They put the meat over the fire until it is burnt, and then they eat it.”
    “You’re joking! They ruin meat like that.”
    “Yes, they seem to like it that way.”
    “Well, there won’t be any burnt meat in this cave. Where did you get these seed rocks?”
    “Oh, I watched a human. He went to one of the mounds while the other humans were gone and took some of