It talks about what the dragon myths do not – the emotions of the families that sacrifice their daughters for the greater good, the feelings of the young women themselves, walking bravely towards an unknown fate. But the book delves deep into the twisted pain that such a premise delivers. The premise is as old as the tales of dragons that demand virgins as tribute. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.” – Agnieska of Dvernik Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. “Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. And their daughters, every once-in-a-while. Not an actual dragon, just a wizard who is called the Dragon, who happens to be the lord of the valley, and to whom they all owe their fealty and tribute. Synopsis: Every ten years, a village in the valley must give up one of their daughters to the Dragon.
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