Remedy (A story of Aligare)

Peregrine wishes he could set Tillian free. But he is an aging dragon deafened by his mining career -- he needs his keen-eared adoptive daughter to relay the world to him. Their two lives are knotted together by love, custom and Peregrine's self-induced weakness.

When a dreaded plague menaces the land, Peregrine has no more time to delay his choice. He must fly for supplies on weakened wings, while Tillian nurses critically ill strangers. Separated for the first time in Tillian's life, they will work for the same cause: saving the young mage Rose and her dying village. In light of this mission of mercy, Peregrine decides to leave his selfish ways behind -- which means leaving Tillian, whether she wants to live for herself or not.