"This and that," she confessed. "Cat, like you see, and I've got a dog, too." Things many people here could second knowing about. She sticks to the known for a sense of personal safety. 'Picked up a horse back in New Mexico early this year."

When she'd been camping out with Caesar and giving rides to boys and girls long gone by now.

"I knew one of the dragons here before. Two, actually," she says, thinking back to Ric and Aurican. "They were really different from each other."