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Ideas come from all over.
It is what one does with ideas that make the difference. I like to read mysteries, poetry, fantasy novels, biographies, and history books. My favorite authors include such writers as Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, John Donne, James Thurber, Hans Christian Andersen, T.H. White, Oscar Wilde, Louisa May Alcott, Natalie Babbit, Patricia MacLachlan, Patricia McKillio, Diane Wynne Jones and many, many others. At the end of your story Heart's Blood , you had Akki and Jakkin hide inside the dragon. When they come out, they pick up certain dragon senses.