I skipped down the marbled hall of my familly villa and turned the corner, running smack into my uncle. “Fonfin!” I exclaimed as I waved the letter in my hands. The delicate vellum carried the words every teenager wants to read. “I’ve been accepted! I get to go to the next hatching!”
He lifted me up in his arms and spun me around in a great big hug. Of all the members of my family I could have me...
