Epilogue

There's a beautiful mosaic on the wall of the Aerie in Mount Draco. It is life-size, but the tiles used to make it are so tiny that from a few feet away it looks like a painting. It is a depiction of a dragon and rider – the dragon is a graceful, sinuous golden thing, and the one riding it is a man in a white robe, wielding a sword in one hand. It's not a very realistic picture, since the man never wore that robe while riding the golden dragon and he is also shown riding bareback. But if it were realistic it would not look half as beautiful as it does.

Behind the dragon and rider, a band of seven colors arcs into the sky. When the sunlight hits the mosaic just so, the colors of the rainbow shimmer as if alive.