The first egg hatched, a brown. The next two eggs hatched, revealing a green and a blue.
She'd never liked dragons, why should she be here? Why not Laval and Nabil, at least they had wanted to get searched. But they hadn't even been there when the search rider came.
Another egg had shattered, revealing a light dappled green. Reeka was lost in thought, wanting to get this over with. She didn't notice the green, nosing her way through the rest of the girls towards her.
Reeka heard a dragon warble, and looked down into a pair of swirling, blue-green eyes. Suddenly, she realised that even if she didn't want to at first, she was now a dragonrider. And Maricth made it all worthwhile.
Reeka looked to the stands, where her father was watching. "Her name is Maricth!"
