Grab Your Weapons!

Most of the soldiers were at the botanic gardens this morning, practising archery, spear throwing and sword fighting while riding their dragons.

Kai was doing particularly well at mounted archery, especially given how little time he'd had riding a dragon. Tingting was a very fine archer as well. She continued to rise in Feifei and Delphis' estimations.

Indy and Niko remained at HQ with Han and Winter, instructing Opal and Brenner on the control room and the perimeter defences.

As Han was demonstrating the cameras and the alarms for Opal and Brenner, one of the perimeter alarms went off.

Niko, who had his feet up on a nearby table and was 'resting his eyes', jumped up and came over to take a look.

"Did you set that off, Han?"

"No. Definitely not. I was nowhere near that one. It's for the alley and the ladder."

"Could it be an animal?"

"Possibly. Hold on while I get the right camera on it."