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"You'll get soft and fat," Astra said, "At least Carola and I will be
getting some exercise, even if in my case it's not in the way that I'd
have chosen."
"I don't care," Belinda said. "You were the one who enjoyed the physical fitness and warrior training that we were subjected to back home. I hated it. The food's surprisingly good, too. Carola and I have been here for about two weeks I think - it's hard to keep track of time when there's no day and night and this room has no clocks - and already my pyjamas are getting a little tight." "The dragon might not give you any replacement clothes," Carola said. "If you don't want to finish up as naked as Astra, you might want to cut back on the carbs." Belinda stuck her tongue out at her. Fearing that the three of them were starting to descend into their characteristic sisterly bickering, Astra changed the subject and asked: "But what does the dragon want us for? Has he sent a ransom demand to Aqualaria?" "If he has, he hasn't told us about it," Belinda said. "We did wonder if he wanted to interrogate us about Aqualaria's military forces, with the intention of taking advantage of what he learned to launch an invasion. But he hasn't asked us about anything like that yet." "I have a theory," Carola said. "You know that dragons are collectors of beautiful things. They build up hoards of looted jewelry and stuff like that. Well my idea is that the dragon became bored with that, and has switched to collecting princesses." "I suppose it's possible," Astra said.
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