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Usage examples of pens.

While he worked, other boys brought in their dragons, until all the other dragons were in the buffing pens as well, and the whole place was full.

Everything else was west of the pens and court, and the area closest to the pens was devoted to the butchery.

At the very edge of the area of the pens, just past the butchery, where pens and open courtyards gave way to real buildings with roofs and doors, was his next destination.

They remained within the area of the pens, but this time they followed an east-west corridor with the cat-goddess Pashet on the walls.

Kashet was restive and a little waspish after the long night without food, but in the other pens, Vetch heard hisses and whines, the snapping of jaws, and the curses of the dragon boys.

The light had not yet made its way down into the corridors between the pens, but certainly he had done enough by now to justify getting his breakfast.

I buried it in the hot sands of one of the pens, I turned it three times a day.

Vetch and the rest of the dragon boys had all rehearsed what they were to do, and after the sun set and all the dragons had settled, they had gone down every row of pens and pulled the canvas awnings over every one of the sand wallows.

Like Kashet, they hated the rain and the cold, and there was a lot of protesting from the pens as they were led out to the landing court in the morning.

There were three times the number of pens than there were dragons, plenty of empty pens where an egg could incubate in the hot sands undisturbed.

No one ever went into the empty pens, unless they happened to be storing something there.

So while there were plenty of extra pens, there was no need to take the risk of conflict by housing the beasts too closely together.

The corridors outside the pens were flooded with light from the moon, and utterly desertedand Coresan slept like a stone, probably exhausted from laying this, the first of her eggs.

Haraket ran through the compound shouting for the boys to run for the landing court, slaves to cover the pens, and cursing everyone in his path.

Dragon boys and every other servant that happened to be free ran for the landing court, for there was no way that most of the dragons were going to be able to land in their pens with that wind behind them.