Kat was the last of the five hired by the local baron to search out and destroy the menace that had been attacking the villages across the realm. It had been a pair of young snow dragons that had been terrorizing the barony. They had proven to be crafty creatures, baiting her group into ambush after ambush, picking them off one by one.
It was unusual to find snow dragons this far south. The only explanation that Kat could understand was that they had been driven out of their lands in the arctic by an older snow dragon. It was possible that they arrived during the winter, and as spring came, they had already become established in the