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The next day while I continued my researches, the women kept busy. There was little more to clean, so they started working with the elfs. They learn a lot and make a few suggestions. These women are clearly not the whining drone- and parasite-types. I want to help them even more.
Chancellor Napier reports that the villages in question have, indeed, been having hard times the last few years -- crops have been poor; they've had more than their share of natural disaster; the land "looks bad", but there's been no sign of overt dragon activity.
I consider chasing it down while it hunts -- put a champion on a Pegasus. But dragons are as fearsome in the air as they are in a lair. Plus, pegasi are even more difficult to find these days than good champions.
"It is," I decide, "time to talk to the dragon, herself." The dragon is a Red Dragon -- a kind which is intelligent, greedy, evil by many measures, can be well versed in magic, and is aligned with the Elemental Plane of Fire. I will need an intermediary, and a good one will be an Effreet.
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