“Tavin cupped his hands to his mouth. “Here, dragon-dragon-dragon!” he yelled.Lily stared in amazement. Well, that was bold, she thought, and stupid.”

“I've reached that final moment of editing a book—the one where the text manifests as a living breathing person and starts slugging me in the face.”

“But—" yelped Twizbang, “Greydor will eat us!”

“Some people are just sad when there aren't talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter”

“You won't find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn”

“Odd names: Winter, Autumn—they almost sound as if someone just made them up.” —Dubb”

“He had turned into a dragon while he was asleep. Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.”