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The dragons that had endured torment at the hands of Baroness Yvette's dragon hunters spent the day after the Fire Festival recovering the strength that been lost to them while they had been drugged. Fuere did all that she could to help they make a fast recovery, including keeping a watch for any dragon hunters. The human boy Jacob, who was blind but definitely not dumb, kept himself busy by trying to learn what he could of those around him. He hunted small creatures in the brush when he could and found herbs to help the wounded dragons heal faster. Fuere also took care of heating the egg that had been saved until it hatched on the second day. The little black and gold dragon blinked a few times and then took his first tentative steps. He had much to learn of the world.

“Fuere I know you want to help them but I don't how we would get by taking care of 4 more dragons. I am having a hard time finding food for us and shelter as it is.” Jacob said to his little light. He could always find Fuere. For some strange reason his unseeing eyes could find the light within her no matter how dark or light the day was. “Please JJ? Little Tresire can be my brother! And the others could be in our family too. Please? Everyone needs family! Thats why I have you. That nice lady knew you would take care of me.” Tresire looked between the two and then walked over to where Rashia lay and sniffed at her. The criss cross patterns across his body reflected the damage done to his egg while in the hands of the humans. With any luck he wouldn't need to relive something like that again but with war seemingly skirting just beyond the horizon the future was unclear.

The blind human was sighing at the firey dragon. “Look they might not want to come with us. After what has happened to them they propibly won't trust me.” “But JJ you wouldn't hurt a fly...well unless you got REALLY hungry.” Fuere giggled at her joke.

Tresire smiled at her and his tail wagged. "H-hello. I Tresire!" He was still learning his words and how to form them. Fuere noticed that Rushia was awake now and grinned. "Hi! Are you feeling better? You slept a long time. I was getting worried." Jacob had turned his head towards her as well but didn't speak to her yet.

"Well...I kinda got invovled by being foolish. Jacob was trying to tell me we were getting close to a village and I needed to be careful but then I saw the big pile of wood just asking for a spark to make it brighten up the dusk sky and I just kinda...ran down and started a big bon fire. It wasn't until those hunters fired at me that I realized what a mistake I had made." Fuere hung her head in shame of her foolish actions that almost got her killed. "I'm glad I could help you though. I think the humans were gonna through you in the fire for some reason...and Tresire was getting so cold in that egg..." "Its nice to meet you Rushia." Jacob said softly. "I managed to bag a few rabbits for food. The little ones have had some but I managed to save 2 for you if you want them." He moved to retrive the rabbits and his herbs to check her wounds. His nose told him it was time to change the bandages. "If you don't mind I would like to see your back Rushia. I need to change your bandages so you can heal faster. May I touch you?" He was taking no chances of spooking or angering this older dragon.

Jacob nodded and then moved behind her carefully as Fuere followed him with her eyes. She was his eyes after all. "So where are you from Rushia? These other two have been really shy and not talked to me yet. Do you rembmer what happened?"

"Part of it is from the drugs they put into you." Jacob said as he worked quickly behind her. He had stripped off the old bandages and was cleaning the the wounds with some cool salve he had learned to make early on in his training. He then started to rewrap it. "And it looks like you were hit in the head some too. My teacher use to talk of the north mountains. Lots of good healing herbs up there but they are almost impossible to havest without a dragon to help you." Fuere giggled a little. "Jacob is really smart. He raised me from an egg and he can't even see! We live in the forest near here. Would you like to stay with us for a while? At least until oyu are strong enough to go back to your own home?"

"Oh...I have been blind for a while now. Three was an accedent at my master's home during my lessons. I was learning to be an apothicary. About the only thing I can really see is light or the lack of it. Fuere helps me out a lot. My ears and nose help me out as much as feeling does anymore." Jacob talked as he finished up. "There you are. You should be able to walk around with no trouble but there might be pain with it. They cut you up pretty bad from what my hands tell me."

Tresire listened and then toddled over nuzzling Rushia's legs. "Mama? Rushia Mama?"

"Oh you know I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Fuere. I'm glad to meet you Rashia." Fuere said finally remembering her manners. "Anyways we can stay here for another day I think. The humans haven't come after us so far and I keep look out most of the day."

"I wouldn't stay too much longer though. A day maybe but longer then that would be too risky. Besides those hunters were using dragons bain which is a very strong poison for dragons. I would hate to see anyone hurt by that stuff. Smells vile and works fast. And chances are if they were going to throw them into the fire," Jacob indecated to the resuced dragons, "That means they are more likely to want revenge for having their twisted fun ruined."

"I wonder what happened to that nice but strange man that helped us? He just kinda disappeared around dawn." Fuere mused outloud.