After cremating all the day's corpses, Danyla had the temple priests return to White Sheep Town ahead of her. Then she led the Skinning Warriors and the Dragonkeeper trainees toward the attic in the Cremation Tower where the Dragon Eggs were kept.
As she entered the Cremation Tower, Danyla could clearly sense that the magical energy surging within the enormous uncut ruby at its summit had grown much denser.
When they climbed to the Dragon Egg incubation chamber on the top floor of the Cremation Tower, Danyla found the magical energy even richer there. It was every bit as dense as in the dragons' caves.
Danyla reached out and gently stroked each scorching Dragon Egg, feeling the increasingly vigorous pulses of life within them. She could not help thinking,
Building this Cremation Tower was the right decision! All five Dragon Eggs are showing signs of life now. Those two petrified eggs from Old Valyria already contained the strongest magical energy, and now that they've received the power of souls, they look ready to hatch at any moment.
Since the Skinning Warriors normally tended the fires in the incubation chamber, they had already grown accustomed to the Dragon Eggs.
The dozen or so Dragonkeeper trainees, however, were all seeing Dragon Eggs for the first time, even though most came from the Dragonkeepers Families.
Ever since the Dragonpit in King's Landing had been built, every egg laid by the Great Dragons had been sent there immediately.
The children born into these Dragonkeepers Families already had a reverence for Great Dragons and a loyalty to House Targaryen that ran in their blood.
At the sight of the Dragon Eggs, they instinctively knelt and began chanting the Valyria Prayers Danyla had taught them that day.
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