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, scraped my hooves, stretched me out and punished every inch of
my hide until the usual glossy white of my velvet-short fur had
returned. They left me to soak just as quickly when I dismissed them,
and I fell into a warm doze floating free.
I awoke easily when the dragons entered. They weren't very quiet
and fifteen dragons made quite a crowd, mostly greenish, two blacks, a
mottled white and a big red. They closed the door behind them
politely, stowed their towels, and started splashing amongst
themselves. Sixteen people in the room crowded things up, but I'm not
prejuidiced against dragons of colour such as theirs, so I just sat
back to watch and sweat in the heated bath.
They bathed and horseplayed, rarely glancing at me as the
interloper, daring me to disapprove. All of them except the mottled
white and the smallest black had grace and skill about them, trained
warriors. The white disdained the strained scale-on-scale tussling of
the wrestling games, preferring to sit near the red and let th
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