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Rosalind is the twenty-first princess in the Pendragon line of royals to have the curse, a dragon's talon. She must clip it daily, very painfully. Her nickname is Rosie.
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Rosie lives in a castle on Wilde island.
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Rosie, her mother (the queen),Kye: Rosie's lover; he comes in later, and Marn (her trusted nursemaid)
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Magda, Rosie's favorite little kitchen girl, gets carried away by a dragon and eaten
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Rosie runs away from an evil witch called Demetra, who Rosie's mother took Rosie to to heal her talon,but Demetra wanted to cut off the talon instead. A dragon comes as Rosie runs away and scoops her up and ends up kissing her talon and letting her go free
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Rosie takes Demetra's servant girl, Kit, because Kit's mother begged for her to take Kit, and brings her to the castle to save her from Demetra's beatings.
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Marn sees Rosie's awful cursed talon and runs screaming that Rosie has leprosy and later Rosie finds her floating in the moat, dead. Everyone says she probably fell in out of shock (they don't know about Rosie's talon), but Rosie knows that Marn would never do anything like that and insists that she was pushed.
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Demetra is burned for witchcraft
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Kit and Rosie ride alone to Demetra's house and rescue Ali, Kit's mother from being burned for witchcraft
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Kit, who before, was a mute, because Demetra cast a spell on her and stuffed a wraith down her throat when she was a baby, can talk now because Demetra's spell died with her.
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Kit is sent away to a nunnery because Rosie's mother, the queen, thinks that she is putting Rosie in danger
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Rosie is taken by a dragon who expects her to do all his dirty work and chores
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The dragon, whose name is Lord Faul, fully expects Rosie to learn dragon tongue with his dead mate's newborn dragon pips (dragon babies).
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The dragons and Rosie are gathering wood in the stream when Kit comes, andat first, the dragons do not see Kit, and Rosie tries to get rid of her so that the dragons don't see her, but she dosen't listen and comes over.
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One of the baby dragons falls over the waterfall and Kit, who has a great love for animals, dives over the edge and saves the pip's life, but loses her own.
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Magnus is going to make Rosie walk the burning hot coals and then hang her
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Kye, a dragon slayer who Rosie's fallen in love with comes and shows all Queen Evanine's sceptre, proving Rosie to be of Royal blood.
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Kye shows all Rosie's diary and it proves her innocent
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Kye frees Rosie from hanging and Aliss, who was in the dungeon.
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Rosie goes back to her village to find her mother and father dead, and Magnus, the lying old fake "sorcerer" in power, and he dosen't believe that she is the real royal pendragon Rosie, not a fake Rosie.She will have concequences.
