The captured dragons were delivered to a nondescript village, whose only virtue was its position—it was close to a river over which the dragons' cages were carried.
As the black dragon that carried me and my bodyguards approached the village, I saw five dozen houses, a river in the distance and several boats docked near a pier. One of them belonged to the squad of Agent Convincing, which had (by the last account) 4 Agent Bees and 6 humans.
The humans were Naregan soldiers from the guard of the ambassador sent to Barahi Kingdom. Their best quality was the complete, religious loyalty to their Prophet-King Farini and their bee overlords.
Their second-best quality was competence.
My dragon made a circle around the village, scoping the area for aerial predators and for a good place to land. And for free food, because these beasts were alway hungry.
