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The Dragon Who Hoarded Names

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The key was warm even in the freezing wind. The girl reached the cave and found, behind a locked iron grate, all the voices Vesper had ever silenced, humming softly in the dark. The little key fit the lock perfectly. She turned it before the dragon even woke.

Instead of freeing them all at once, the girl reached in and lifted out the old man's silenced voice, the one who had given her the key. It flew down the mountain and home to him. Then she turned to the waking dragon and pointed at the open cage, asking her to free the rest herself. Slowly, Vesper did.

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