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The siege of Kalaman has begun. We see soldiers on the walls, being attacked by dragonelles. We also see that the dragonelles heading towards us are dropping some bottles of some potion. Arinona says that the bottles are probably alchemist's fire, which is a big deal. Behind all this, the citadel continues to head slowly towards us! Do we go to the wall and use the ballistae, or do we help with the city?
 
We choose to go on the wall. After all, most of the civilians are inside the keep.
 
As the dragonelles close in, we attack. Poor Waah asks for help as she loads the ballista, but she cannot move it herself. Sterling attacks them, (and gets attacked!) and then turns the ballista. Mal aims, and I fire, hitting a dragonelle, but only barely. Waah notices that the dragonelle that Sterling got's rider is down there, asks if we are all ok, and goes after him.
 
Meanwhile, the dragonelles still flying are trying to attack us, still. They attack Sterling, and then are behind the ballista now. Sterling goes after the rider, too. They fight. Then I get shot in the back by a stupid dragon army guy. Just they wait! Arinona uses her magic on the riders, and I try to shoot those jerks, and miss. Waah knocks down the officer on the ground.
 
The dragonelles will come back, and we carry on with the battle. We defeat all 4 dragonelles and officers. After that, another dead dragon landed by us. Ugh. This one wasn't even sent as a meteor, and half dead. We attack it, now. The ballista is facing it, so I'm taking advantage of that. Once we take that thing down, we spot Vendri. She's at the top of the gate house, shouting commands. We see 2 golden draconians flanking her. They get rid of her surrounding soldiers. We need to help her.
 
I shoot at the golden officers, and take down the first one. Unfortunately, it also explodes on my friends. We take down the last one! We go into a house which she has commandeered to heal up. Mal gets a notice from a scout, who reports that coppery dragonelles landed in a grove about SW of the city. He asks the closest gate to it, and he says the trade gate. We should go asap. But the dragon army is going through that way. The city is surrounded, so we'll probably need to fight our way through to get there.
 
We are planning to be flung from a device that Rinkledust and Thon, the gnome inventors. They also give us something to help us fall safely. We go, with a little trepidation. The device is called a Narycrasher. We hike to the Hawker's grove, to meet our future mounts! I can't wait. We enter a clearing, created by some fire? We hear some screeches, but can't see anything with all the smoke.
 
Sterling and I were supposed to go together, but then he takes off without me. To our east, there is fray, and suddenly we're being hit by some flames. Then from the north. Sterling attacks, and we hear more screeching. Poor Waah was even almost hit by a ballista missile. I walk out, because we can't see what we're fighting. I see Clistrin's camp, and he is hiding in the woods. I tell him we're coming, and keep an eye out for whatever it was in that smoke. They are little red dragons. We get rid of them.
 
Clistrin then greats us, and Arinona helps us look like red dragonelles and red army riders. He tells us that their dragonelles all fly in a very specific formation, and to avoid getting close to Kalaman. We spend an hour in the forest, to rest a little. We recover some, and then its time.
 
We are ready to fly out. We mount the dragonelles, and its weird. But flying is wonderful and scray. As we gain altitude, we can see the battle between the red dragon army raging, Enemies everywhere, even in air. We follow a group of dragonelles sneaking into the castle. We try to copy their formation, and we go closer to the bottom of the citadel. We see there 2 bright red dragonelles, coming towards us, to attack.
 
Now what do we do? I check, and we cannot see any other dragon army people that can see us. One of these is Bakkaris Jr! I try to tell him that he has to hurry, or his father will be beheaded, and he laughs. Arinona then turns his dragonelle into a slug, so he falls. The other rider is a master rider. We now need to get her. I shoot at the dragonelle, and she evades so that the arrow hits her!
 
Unfortunately, Waah tries to dodge something, but she falls from her dragonelle! Oh no! Clistrin looks like he is going for her, and the rest of us focus on the battle.
 
Sterling also starts to fall, and we are all worried. We defeat her, and Clistrin did save Waah. We do see a bunch of caverns that allow us to enter, with a shelf for us to land on.