G Wade Carmichael

Purgatory

There weren’t always dragons in the valley. There weren’t supposed to be any, not in this valley or any other. Doctor Faulkes had stollen the Seven Seed-Egg stones from the Dead City on Travon II. Recovered them, he said. And Var-Don the Travon Queens-Pair had found him and the stones aboard the LORES Valkyrie, just before the Queens-Pair Cleave and the nymphs’ emergence from the stones. And Doctor Faulkes’ Purgatory, his penance for his theft was to nurture the nymphs as they morphed toward adulthood, into what would be called dragons by those who did not know.