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Tekata and Golden Shtarikath's Den

As the sun rose on this beautiful day, Tekata threw her arms out and let the sunlight bathe her pale skin with yellow-gold. You look like me! I like that! Bespoke Shtarikath. Today will be the day I learn to fly, is that right? "That is right, beautiful Shtari. And you've been taking lessons from our little friend, right?" Jumper chittered loudly. He knew when he was being spoken about, he was no typically-dense flitter! Tekata giggled. "That's right, we're looking to you for guidance. Now, spread those wings!" Shtarikath did as she was asked, watching little Jumper. Though the bronze was smaller by far than the dragoness, he was quite large for a flitter, and barely fit onto Tekata's outstretched arm! Like this? I see! I can feel the muscles, Tekata. I think I will love flying. Will it be like you riding your steed-things? Can I fly with them? They go very fast. But I will be faster still. "I know you'll be the best, fastest queen out there, Shtarikath!" Tekata was filled yet again with the feeling of completion which she'd been missing all her life. She finally knew the connection was never going to fade.

This lovely image is (c) 1985 Patrick Nagel. Go look his work up. It's beautiful. This is an unauthorized scan of a picture found in MY book. No infringement is meant.

"Sweetie, you're blocking the view." Tekata grumbled. "I really want to see them race." But they are food! Why would food be racing? What is so interesting about that? Tekata stifled a chuckle, and tried to push her half-slumbering dragon's wing out of her way. Their den overlooked the racing fields, but only when Shtarikath's form wasn't blocking the whole of the ledge. Tekata squeezed by and huffed. "Because, Shtari, they're beautiful, like you. And they're not just food. You used to think horses were interesting." They're still food. "I know you'd love to eat a couple of them, but horses are only food if they're old or lame, and none of those are either!" Tekata waved her hand in the air, trying to punctuate her statement, but the dragon certainly didn't care, and wasn't looking anyway. Ahh, you just want to watch them because it is like a dragon in her mating flight. If they had a strong gold to chase, I could understand. But half of those juicy horses are females, anyway! So what's the point in that? "Why bring up flying a mating flight now," Tekata grumbled because she'd already missed most of the first race, and was most likely going to miss the next. Well, you wouldn't want me being chased by a bunch of females, now would you? Tekata forgot all about the race.