She woke up to the sound of a rooster, right as the sun broke across the horizon.
She didn't stir right away, but she was certainly awake. The rooster continued to sing outside her little wooden den as the first few sun rays started to break through the den. She was comfortably curled up in a ball, warm and cradled by the grass under her.
She was one of the special Paragon of the Dragon Hive. Although the majority stayed in their stony dens dug deep inside the mountain, the female Ambia was secluded. Oh, she wasn't a threat or unpleasant to her mates, nothing like that. She'd also chosen to live away from the main Hive, having done her nest and den just a little ways away from the mountain, deep inside their forest barrier. The reason for that was, despite the Hive having standard tasks to accomplish, the Ambia had a very unique and special task for her own to accomplish: supplying food. However, that was to say, not just any kind of food. The hunters could do that part quite perfectly on their own. No, her job was going beyond just wild prey.
While Paragon typically feast on meat, the occasional fish and the very rare plants, the fact remained that their diet was not very varied. Not only that, but some Paragon were strangely queasy towards raw meat, and preferred it cooked. Over time, the Hive had grown tired of the same foods, and wondered how they could find a way to spice things up. Spice things up they did, for some Paragon proposed to adapt a system similar to that of humans'. If they could keep some animals around, they could get different meats and new foods, like eggs. If they gathered up new plants, they could use them to, literally, spice up their common pork chop.
The idea had been quite a controversial thing to consider, and even more to implement. Raise and live with the animals that you would eventually eat? To most of them, it just sounded like an excuse to play with one's food, which just wasn't sanitary — or even fun. Given time, however, some Paragon did put their claws on the job to try things out. After a few years, the results were wonderful: the Hive now had an official Paragon cook, and also an official Paragon farmer. She was the latter.