Pandion fluffed out her feathers against the cool, damp wind whistling out of the cavern. Her Monarche, Storm, had appointed her and another Aerattl guard to keep watch at the refuge cave. She had only recently shed her pupae scales, and her wings and body ached.
I’m going to die of boredom.. She thought. The older Aerattl guard was rather dull, and no matter how much she prodded him to talk he just responded in grunts and mumbles. She sighed, and rested her head on her front talons. Almost as soon as she settled down, she heard wingbeats in the distance. She nudged the guard, ‘Do you hear that? We’ve got dragons coming this way!’
He grunted his approval, and the approaching dragons soon came into view.
(Is the refuge cave at ground level? Or is it in a mountain?)