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The visions, which always show one of several humans with odd features, come on fast and strong. Before the men can help her home, she is struck by one of her debilitating visions. Feeling sorry for it, Seraphina gives it money for a tiny figure of a lizard with a human head.Īfter they trade, two men chase the quig off, and Seraphina pretends to have been offended by its panhandling. One night as she walks to Orma’s house, she sees a quigutl, a smaller species of dragon who cannot don human form. Seraphina returns to her duties at court, tutoring Glisselda and arranging the entertainment program for an upcoming celebration. She and Orma leave before he can question them in depth. He recognizes Seraphina from the court as she instructs his cousin, Princess Glisselda, in music. Prince Lucian Kiggs, bastard prince of the realm and captain of the guard, arrives to break up the fight. Before she can ask about it, a new skin - a dragon who is new to human form, comes under attack from an anti-dragon group. A street urchin gives him a gold coin, which, Seraphina notices, causes him distress. After the service, Seraphina meets with Orma, her tutor and uncle, who is a full-blood dragon disguised as a human.

However, when she must play her flute at the funeral of Prince Rufus, the heir to Goredd’s throne, everyone marvels at her musical talent. She promised not to bring notice to herself, because to be half dragon is considered an abomination by both species. Her father kept the truth hidden until Seraphina developed silver dragon scales around her waist and arm when she was 11.

Her deceit was discovered when she died giving birth to Seraphina. Her mother, a dragon from a prominent family, fell in love with a man while in her human form. She also hides a dangerous secret: She is half dragon. Seraphina is a young woman who works as the assistant to the court composer. Since then, dragons have been allowed to take on human form and live among the people of Goredd, attending and teaching school, working various jobs, learning the ways of human beings, but strictly forbidden to fully immerse themselves as human. In the kingdom of Goredd, dragons and humans are preparing to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the signing of the truce agreement between the two species.