Fifteen dragons have died in less than a century. Rumaad, a different kind of dragon, collects information about the killings the way some dragons collect jewels. So he’s perfectly suited to see the differences in the latest crime scene, the murder of a dragon he knows all too well. What he sees convinces him something has changed in his world—and not for the best. “Dragon Slayer” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch was first published in German as “Ein Fall für Rumaad,” Feueratem: Das Grosse Drachen-Lesebuch, edited by Michael Nagula, Knaur, 2003.