Re: Your ideal books to own

>>>>> 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.

>>Maryann said:
>> 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.

>Sibyl said:
>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.

That's the one!

Maryann