SPOILER ALERT This is a great book about the last elf and the last dragon in the world. All though the title is The Last Dragon, it mostly revolves around the elf. For simplicity's sake he is called Yorsh. All of the elves end up drowning because of the constant rains that they are ironically blamed for due to the powers that they have and the humans don't. Yorsh is told by his Grandmother (his mother had died in birth) to run, though he is only a boy. He does so and is very sad. Eventually he comes across a human woman...and eventually a man. There is a clashing of customs of which the man and woman mostly go along with the elf. During the first part they go through trouble when they are pulled by a dictator (who is called by a different name)'s guard into the city and into jail for petty cause. They escape but the elf see's a prophecy written in the stones on the way out, but they humans couldn't read it, they couldn't even read their own language. They follow the prophecy to the last dragon and believe they have broken the prophecy when the rain stops. In the second part of the book the elf had been caring for the old dragon for thirteen years when he finally finds the last book of thousands of books in the library the dragon lived in. It is about dragons, the first he had come across. It explained much about dragons he hadn't known from observing "his" dragon...and then it came to dragon reproduction. He realized "his" dragon was at the end of it's life and having a baby. All of a sudden there was a crash and he rushes back to find the old dragon gone and an egg breaking in the dragon's place. He has to take care of the dragon until until it first flies, then it matures immediately as the stretching muscles connect the spinal cord parts. He then has a longing for a wife, and the humans who had treated him with kindness thirteen years ago. He and the dragon fly to where he believes the humans would have gone but find it in ruins. The bad city had been stretching it's power and he goes to find what the part of the prophecy he missed said but found it scratched out. The book also tells of a girl. The girl is stuck in an loathsome orphanage who's conditions kill more then they let out when they come of age. She has dreams of a prince rescuing her from on top of a dragon. as the dragon and elf fly by several times the sight of the dragon keeps improving her circumstances until the elf follows a trail of stones from the ruined village to the orphanage and actually meets the girl. The girl is taken to the city for the crime of associating with an elf. Her parents had been hanged for the same, but the girl was under aged so she would be hung in private. When the elf goes to save her he still doesn't understand humans and trades himself in in exchange for the girl's freedom. The dictator will hang them both then. But the elf escapes through the underground passages with the girl, since the city was originally elven he used his powers. He and the girl go back to the former orphanage and find a large crowd who wish to escape the land with them that the dragon had gathered. The elf is freaking out, how could he save so many starving and desperate people. He ends up by gathering their attention through stories and marching them miles and miles even though they are dead on their feet because an army is following them. They go to the old village but to save them the dragon gives the ultimate sacrifice...he dies for them closing off the pass. The mass of rebels march down the river to a waterfall, and tunnel down to the beach and sea and freedom. A good ending. PS: The girl gets the elf
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