"I'll meet with both of them later this week. For now, I'd like to get to know all of you if that's okay?" At their questioning looks, she continued.
"You can ask me anything, too. Call it a fail safe. If you ever have any doubt in the future that I'm under some kind of distress or if you think I'm being coarsed, you can ask me a question. If I can give you the right answer you know I'm good. If you get a wrong one, you know that something is wrong. A lot of parents in the human realm use it with their kids as a kind of distress signal."
"Brilliant!" Rhor said. "Why have we never thought of that before?"
Gracie grinned. "I'll start. Brace, how long have you been a guardian?"
He laughed, obviously confused. "I've always been a guardian."
"I didn't ask how long you've been a dragon. Ho
