Re: Your ideal books to own

On 3/18/12 4:40 PM, maryann@kih.net wrote:
>>>> Gwynn said:
>>>> Yeah, I loved the early books in that series, especially the Menolly
>>>> trilogy. It was a shame they went downhill so fast.
>
>>> Maryann said:
>>> Is she the one with the dragonlizards? Loved those too.
>
>> Sibyl said:
>> I think you might mean Fire Lizards. There were quite a lot of
>> characters who had them.
>
> But she is the one who first discovered that they could be impressed, and accidentally impressed a whole clutch of them? I remember where she had to procure snacks for a whole bunch of growing fire lizards.

Okay, I found it, "Dragonsong", 1976. She wasn't the first, but she did
accidentally Impress nine of them, while hiding in a cave as a runaway
from the SeaHold. The sea beach I remembered was because she rescued
the eggs from incoming tide, and took them to her high cave (the tides
were irregular because of the approach of the Red Star, and in older
times the eggs would have been safe where they were. Anyway, they
started to hatch just at the beginning of threadfall, were flying out of
the cave looking for food, and trying to keep them in, because the
Thread could kill them, she remembered that hatchling dragons were
hungry (also from feeling their hunger herself: high empathy), and had a
sackful of something like crabs, so began feeding them in between trying
to keep them from going out the cave mouth. Later, she taught them to
sing in harmony, and had herself a fire lizard choir.

She did it accidentally, but someone else had done it before her,
Mirrim, I think. Now that I've got it, I'm going to have to go back and
read it slowly from the beginning instead of skimming for the particular
incident.

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