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Chapter 1Draconia, Draconisla Late Spring Yerna hunkered down to fasten the stiff buckles of her shining new spurs. The metal twinkled in the slanting sun of early morning. Her heart skittered at the thought of the future. Today she’d be dubbed Sera Yatskievych, Knight of the Draconian Empire. Of the twenty-seven squires who’d be knighted today, only three were women, including her. It had been a struggle, without a doubt, but the six-year effort was now behind her. Of the original group of forty-six recruits, five women and fourteen men had flunked out. Yerna felt more pity than contempt for them, but a bit of both. Maybe she had a little more motivation than most and the benefit of the strength and stamina gained in the first fifteen years of her life. The eldest of a family of seven