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In Heron’s Bonds, Bernard and two of the visiting Miners, Hanna’s brothers, go into the woods hunting the “thief.” They do this for entertainment, sport and out of a sense of entitlement. After all the woman is alone and she presumably has no one to stand with her. Gordon goes into the merchantile and confronts…

In Gordon’s Pride you have that first winter storm. In Heron’s Bonds, more snow comes down. In The Heartsinger winter is hard upon them and the weather is impressively cold. Since I wrote these in the summer, it is hard to describe why winter was so hard on my mind, but I do think it…

Heron does not respond passively when a dragon flies in and drops dead meat on the path to Grabon’s nest. Not only does he take it poorly that the strange dragon is insulting and challenging Grabon, but his mate and Hanna were on that path when the meat fell from the sky. It was only…

Why does Heron go to such lengths to try and conceal his emotions from Trissy? Is it because of survivors guilt over the fires when he was a young man? Is it because of his feelings for Grabon and some of the other dragons? Is it because of the emotions that come into play because…

In book 2 Hanna shows Trissy the trick and it turns out with practice she can do it as well. Maybe she doesn’t get as much water out as quickly, but it still lessens the drying time and amount of work it takes to wash clothing. Trissy’s reaction is of course, I wish I had…

The idea of a slide was taken of course from the idea of an outhouse, you will see a variety of plumbing ideas as the series developes. Eliminating waste and depositing it somewhere gave me an interesting puzzle as I designed nests and built the culture of the dragons.

Grabon’s five friends come in to visit, to check out Grabon’s newly claimed territory knowing that in the past they challenged him to claim a territory and they would settle down and become the foundation of his clan. Whether they thought he would take forever to complete the task, or if they were hoping he…

The big red dragon who makes brews of all kinds had never intended to become a brewmaster like his sire because he has a different talent and thought he would have to choose between the two. Because of Grabon’s acceptance and willingness to see beyond the one role traditions of most dragons, Griss’ world opened…