in Washington
April 27th, 2002
Sunflare opened his eyes. A big fly was resting on the tip of the spike on his nose. He shook his head and got up.
Morning had fallen over Dragontopia, and Sunflare was hungry. So he walked to the orchard, and then plucked a date from it's tree. Then he spit out the pit and took another date. When he finished eating, a black dragon swooped from the sky and landed in front of him.
"What's up, Nightglide?" Sunflare asked her. Nightglide looked nervous. "Father!"(She was one of Sunflare's children.)"There are 99 men heading for Dragontopia!" Sunflare shuddered. "What else?" Nightglide replied, "I heard one them say if there are any dragons there we'll be rich when we sell them to a zoo or something."
(To be continued)
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