Word for Word: Except

I’m in a writers’ group that meets on Zoom, though before the pandemic we met in person. Every week, we do a writing prompt: someone gives a page number, and our organizer picks a word from a huge dictionary. We write for five minutes. In this example, the word is: except.

A dragon flies above Rowanwick House, which is featured in my series Rowanwick Witches.

All the dragons in the valley were content with staying home, not taking adventures out into the world. That is… all the dragons were content except…