"Christi collapsed onto the living room floor. "That was, that was" was all she could say as her body continued to jerk in the aftermath of near-elect...ocution.Grand Dad knelt over Christi's quivering body and admired the pattern of deep purple bruises that was spreading evenly across her self-beaten breasts. "Boy howdy," he whistled, "that thing really does a job! I don't think I've ever seen such uniform bruising in all my born days."Now, Kathy," Grand Dad said firmly, "I want you and your. Lucy had sent me, just as I guessed, to try out as astripper.Shahid came in a moment later, a slim, young, Indian looking guy dressedin black and dripping with chunky gold jewellery. He looked me up anddown like a piece of meat. "Drop the coat," he ordered. I took it off."The rest is fine. Follow me." He headed out of the door and back tothe floor. "Any music you prefer?"I thought back to Hong Kong, but couldn't remember anything about themusic, what it was or how it went. For some. Blackened splotches of grass dotted the clearing around the well. My nose twitched. There was an odor in the air that smelled familiar.Magic... Two forms lay about the fire, shrouded in the long shadows of the dawn.Daniel lay perfectly still ... his breath was even ... and a small smile played about the edges of his face. His rusted sword rested on his belly. I sniffed the air ... the smell of magic was emanating from his blade.I was about to move in closer and look at the strange sword when. As she grew, it was found that she possessed the abilities of all seven breeds of dragons. She wasn’t as good at controlling her abilities as other breeds of dragons, but she could use them. She was deemed a Chromatic dragon. To borrow a human expression, a Chromatic dragon is a ‘Jack of all trades, master of none.’”“Over time, more Chromatic dragons were hatched, though it didn’t happen very often. At least not until the original female Chromatic dragon mated with a male of her own kind,.