Saturday, July 6, 2019

the hidden kingdom: part two

Glory wakes up to a series of surprises. First she finds a sloth sleeping on herself who Jambu tells her is now her pet. Then Jambu shows her the hatcheries and she realizes that family is not really a RainWing thing and no one even realized her egg was missing. She also realizes that Webs probably knew this which is why he refused to give her information on the night he took her. Then she discovers with a venom test that she and Jambu are siblings. Discouraged with all of this she follows Jambu back to her friends.

Jambu and Glory find Starflight teasing Clay with food in his sleep. Glory feels conflicted about her people. On one hand they have blow darts and a hidden village. On the other hand they didn't even notice her egg was missing. The other dragonets start to wake up. Other RainWings show up and are amused by the friendly bickering of the dragonets. Starflight asks to see Queen Dazzling immediately on important business. This confuses Jambu and Liana, who want to take them to someone else. Glory realizes what is going on just before it is revealed that they have multiple queens who all take turns by ruling for one month at a time. When they discover there is no ruling family Tsunami asks if she could be queen since she is a princess of the SeaWings. Glory is shocked when Jambu and Liana consider this. She overrules them, pointing out that a SeaWing cannot be queen of the RainWings. They bring the dragonets to Queen Magnificent's hut where they can wait their turn. Glory decides to start asking the dragons in line ahead of them why they are waiting. The third dragon angrily informs her that his partner, Orchid, has been missing for three weeks and she is one of at least twelve missing dragons.

Glory convinces Mangrove to let her accompany him when he pleads his case to the queen. She also convinces Bromeliad, who is also there about a missing dragon who is a student of hers, to accompany them. Glory feels that the queen might be more willing to listen to two dragons instead of one. Magnificent listens to their cases and decides that Glory should investigate matters. Just then the dragonets burst in. They convinced everyone else that they should cut ahead. They explain about Webs and Magnificent allows them to ask the healers for help. Before they leave she asks Glory who she is. Glory explains that her egg was stolen six years ago but the queen seems uninterested. Glory leaves, frustrated at the lack of care in regards to anything in the RainWing kingdom.

Clay tells Glory that he and Starflight will help her while the others focus on Webs. First they seek out Mangrove for more information. They find out that even one of the queens, Splendor, is missing but no one seems to care. The general feeling is the missing dragons will return when they want to. Mangrove takes them to where Orchid last was when she went missing. There they find a dying sloth and a mysterious hole in a boulder that looks like a doorway.

The doorway feels wrong to the dragonets. The sloth dies, probably from some sort of poison since he smelled wrong. Glory wants to investigate the hole but her friends stop her, pointing out that they should wait until morning. Starflight leaves to tell the others the plan while Glory and Clay settle down for the night. Glory admits to Clay that she doesn't feel like she belongs in the RainWing kingdom and privately she feels that she got her hopes up just to be smashed. Glory and Clay hear a noise in the trees and quiet down. It heads towards the hole. They fall asleep and when they check on the dead sloth in the morning they find it gone.

So I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that none of the dragonets are going to find what they are looking for at their home. Poor Glory. So determined to prove that RainWings are not just lazy dragons only to find out the truth is that they just really don't care about anything, including a missing queen! It certainly is a peaceful, carefree life but it is a little too carefree.

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