Celie's eyes burned, and her body felt limp and numb. "Where am I?" Celie examined her surroundings, there was a musty smell and the ground felt damp and cold and there was a soft dripping noise that was repetitive. Celie could barely see but of what she could see she saw a pile of twigs, grass, and hay. Celie tried to drag herself over to it but her leg just hurt too much. "What is going on here?"

Celie had been there for almost 10 hours, and her pain just grew worse by the second. "I just want to get home…. I wish I could figure this out."

Celie suddenly heard an outburst of high shrieking howls. Big slouching shadows could be seen on the ground. Celie looked up cautiously and saw a big black hand dangling over the crack in the ceiling and as soon as she did she ducked back in horror.

"A Valor! I've read about them but never dreamed of seeing one!" She peered through the crack again and saw a little bit more detail of the terrible creature, and it was only then that she realized…"I'm a prisoner! I wish I could remember what happened…"

Celie squeezed up against the wall out of view of the terrible valors. She was trembling and very on edge, the tiniest noise would scare her.

Celie's scrapes and bruises stung and ached, preventing her from being able to move in a normal way, so she sprawled out on her stomach and slowly placed her elbows on the cold ground, her elbows shoved off and moved her body across the floor towards the pile of leaves, twigs, and such. Celie let out a huge sigh of relief. " I made it! Now, what is this stuff doing here?" Celie pushed away warm leaves and felt around in the large pile, suddenly, she saw an iridescent surface that came up out of the leaves, she slowly and cautiously pressed her fingers to the warm surface and closed her eyes, letting the warmth move through her numb body. Celie re-opened her large blue eyes and pushed her fingers up under the object to lift it up. "Oh my gosh! Is it…? No, it couldn't be…it is! A DRAGON EGG!" Celie lifted the egg above her head and gazed at it.

"Don't do that!" a voice came into her head, but the strange part was…it wasn't hers.

Startled, she quickly tucked away the egg in her skirts and looked around the silent room. "I'm not with you, so don't waste your time trying to find me." The voice came through her thoughts again.

"EEEEEEEEK!" loud shrieks of anger echoed from above her. She could only make out a few words "DRAGON! EGG! Ugh uh." The horrifying creatures must've known that someone had discovered an egg. She saw thick black fingers reaching through the crack followed by more shrieks and cries. The fingers we're yanking up and making more cracks by the second in the thick stone ceiling.

"You can't stay in there! Use the egg! Use the egg!" the voice came urgently bursting through her thoughts again and Celie found herself talking back, in her mind!

"What do you mean?!?! How?!?!?" Celie boomed "Hold it in your hands and run at the wall!" the voice answered back, to Celie's surprise.

Celie did not have time to question the mysterious orders, the Valor's we're almost inside, and there was no time to waste.

She jumped up, pulled the egg out of her skirts, held it tight, and ran.

"That was a close one." Celie jerked out of a deep sleep "What is going on?!" Celie said in reply to the voice. "We don't have time to tell you right now just sit tight and rest we'll be there early morning."