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During the Moonwood games, Kai noticed huge three-toed prints beside the quiet trail. Oddly, nobody had heard a dragon pass.
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Kai and the Dragon's Quiet Footprints
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Part 1
During the Moonwood games, Kai noticed huge three-toed prints beside the quiet trail. Oddly, nobody had heard a dragon pass.
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Part 2
The prints were broad but very shallow. Kai compared them with his own smaller, deeper boot marks in the soft moss.
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Part 3
He guessed a giant dragon had tiptoed by. Behind a fern, he found Piko, a young dragon wearing wide padded practice shoes.
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Part 4
Piko explained that the game required silent steps. The soft pads spread his weight, so they left wide marks without pressing deeply.
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Part 5
Kai watched Piko take one slow step. The pad touched heel to toe, the moss barely sank, and no twig snapped.
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Part 6
A second trail had deep claw marks and broken twigs. It belonged to the wooden practice cart, whose dragon-shaped wheels carried heavy stones.
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Part 7
Kai followed the shallow prints to Piko's team flag. He followed the deep trail to the equipment shed and sorted both clues correctly.
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Part 8
Kai learned that a large print does not always mean a heavy walker. Depth, sound, and nearby clues reveal more than size alone.
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Intro
Three-toed footprints, broad and wide,
Crossed the quiet forest side.
Verse 1
Huge but shallow in the moss—
What soft walker wandered across?
A young dragon hid nearby,
Padded practice shoes tied tight.
Chorus
Tiptoe softly, heel to toe.
Depth and sound can help us know.
Big wide prints can still be light.
Check more clues before you're right.
Verse 2
Soft pads spread the weight around.
No snapped twig and almost no sound.
Deep claw tracks with branches scarred
Came from one heavy practice cart.
Final Chorus
Shallow trail reached one team flag.
Deep trail reached the equipment shed.
Size alone may fool our sight.
Depth and sound can set it right.
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