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    Dragon Qiver Book 4: Tales of Tossedowns
    Dragon Qiver Book 4: Tales of Tossedowns
    Dragon Qiver Book 4: Tales of Tossedowns
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    Dragon Qiver Book 4: Tales of Tossedowns

    By Laurence Knighton

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    Danger preys on leathery wings in the sky over Narmly Woods. It breathes scorching fire and has a powerful appetite.
    But an unlikely hero has been born in an abandoned nest atop the tallest spire of Faraway Peaks. With tiny wings and a long, little snout, he’s not like others.
    It will take first-time friends and a journey to find a wizard if he’s to find out what he is.
    In the end, he’ll also discover his fate.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLaurence Knighton
    Release dateMar 2, 2011
    ISBN9781452474984
    Dragon Qiver Book 4: Tales of Tossedowns
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    Laurence Knighton

    Born in the Rocky Mountains under a loaf of wry bread, Laurence (Larsky) Knighton is a graphic designer and illustrator by trade, having written and illustrated Disney's 'Donald Duck' syndicated daily comic strip for years before its cancelation in the American market. Still illustrating and writing fun, entertaining stories, he resides in Boise, Idaho with his handsome plush-stuffed black Lab 'Buck' who never sheds, barks, or runs away.

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      Dragon Qiver Book 4 - Laurence Knighton

      Tales of Tossledowns – Book 4

      DRAGON QIVER

      by

      Laurence Knighton

      Smashwords Edition

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      Dragon Qiver – Book 4 Tales of Tossledowns

      Copyright © 2011 by Laurence Knighton

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      Prologue

      Wet wind pushed across Wenterwill’s rolling hills of rainbow-colored wheat. It was a summer storm and it brought lightning that streaked a crooked line from a darkened sky with thunderous vengeance. Every window in the small community of Barfoo was tightly shuttered, and at the center of town atop Karnberry Hill, the unusual weather was having its way with an old abandoned house.

      In a tight crawlspace beneath the aging structure, rain flooded through a widened crack in the foundation like it was conquering new territory. The intrusion of so much moisture spelled disaster to a panicky yellow spinspider. Soon, her usual dry world would be awash with rainwater.

      That bothered her, bothered her a lot.

      She hated water worse than she disliked the cold, and that’s a lot of dislike. Cold stiffens up the legs, but water can drown a spider. That’s why she built her sticky snares indoors, where water wasn’t supposed to reach.

      And, it hadn’t, until now.

      The spinspider was clearly distraught. That’s because water was everywhere, soaking up the dust and clinging to her webs. Some were washed away entirely. Most were beyond her reach for now because she was too frightened to move. Oh, how she hated water!

      Help! a frightened voice cried out from across the crawlspace. Help!

      Hush up! she responded in a terse spidery voice. I’m busy!

      A surge of water sloshed through the crawlspace, pushed through a web nearby and tore loose.

      You’ve got to listen! the voice complained again, only louder and more urgent. I’m drowning?

      No, you’re whining again, said the spider, but she took notice. Finally, glancing at all the water, she ignored the damage to her snares and scampered upside down across the sagging floor to where she had left the tomebeetle, only partially wrapped and just waiting to be the biggest meal ever. The large beetle was her lucky snare. With all the excitement, she had nearly forgotten about him.

      To her surprise, the lower half of his body was indeed submerged. And the water appeared to be rising. The beetle held the book he had been reading from over his head and pleaded for her to hurry with his many eyes.

      For a brief moment, the yellow spinspider had a notion to seek the high ground where it was dry and let him drown. But it was the book that stopped her.

      She snared the tomebeetle in her sticky snare fair and square. But there was a snag to the catch that she hadn’t expected: the book the beetle kept in the tattered knapsack he carried.

      The tomebeetle called the book ‘Tales of Tossledowns’. It was a collection of stories he’s picked up in his travels. She was a spider and normally she would have ignored the book. She normally wouldn’t have agreed to his barter for a bit of her time with a story, either, but she did. That’s because it had been a long time since anyone had dared visit

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