The two girls know someone in their generation will be picked, and have spent their whole lives bracing themselves for this possible separation. In Agnieszka’s valley, once every ten years a wizard known as the Dragon takes a young woman away. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.Agnieszka and her best friend Kasia grew up knowing they were living on borrowed time. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. We hear them sometimes, from travellers passing through. Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley.
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