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the marvels of engineering that
surrounded me.
The plain apparently sat like an elevated valley surrounded by
mountains.
Most people know only rumors of the growth cycle of the Megassi, but
it's relatively easy to understand. Aimee', have you ever watched a
caterpillar turn into butterfly? You know of the sleeping process
caterpillars undergo? The Megassi have the same sort of growth, Aimee',
only their caterpillar shape resembles our shape, human. Or elven, I
suppose. They built the central city of Hakkana for that shape; they spend
the first fifty years of life shaped in our way. These young administer
the city as it relates to the world; they perform the roles of merchant and
agent to the adult Megassi.
Somewhere in their fifth or, perhaps, late sixth decade, they begin to
undergo the great change. They do not sleep though the change, Aimee';
every day they awake knowing that they have begun to change their shape,
begun to change into Dragonkind. Many move awkwardly at this time; They
have no reason to learn to live with a shape that will not feel the same
tomorrow as it does today. My guard, apparently, had some control of his
faculties. He spoke well, and he
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