"Very rarely," Imrik replied. "Me and Nara are trained fighters so we can be used whenever we have to fight. One of my other siblings is a healer and the other can form incredibly strong forcefields. They're more useful if we have to defend something than if we're on the attack."<br/><br/>At that moment Muroe noticed five huge dragons hovering in the air. At first they looked the same as the other dragons around them, but they had more exotic markings across their scales. The one nearest the tower was the colour of sand but had unusual blue streaks running across some of its scales.<br/><br/>"With dragons like that you have to wonder how Marash's city remained hidden for so long," Muroe said, a note of awe in his voice.<br/><br/>"Most of the dragon cities were lost when Stormrider retreated from the human world," Kara said. "Some, like the Crystal Dragons, refused to desert humanity or any of the other races. Others either received the order too late to react or chose to stay in the cities they had established, like Marash did."