I'm lying in the snow.
I'm lying in the snow yet this is the most fun I have ever had.
I have never felt so content, never so happy as I do now.
I am left with nothing but my thoughts.
Though maybe my thoughts are my downfall.
I can't help but think about the friends I have lost.
We all found our own ideas, our own agendas, and then our own endeavors.
They left looking for there purpose, there own happiness.
I stayed looking for mine.
By all rights they should be my enemies now.
We were friends for too long for me to just let them go like that.
My thoughts won't get the best of me because I still have hope.
When I see them I will still smile and forget everything that went wrong.
That might just be my guilt talking.
I watched day by day as they changed.
I said nothing to stop it.
I did nothing to stop it.
I am still happy lying in the snow.
Just the memories of how thing were makes it worth the pain it brings.
I can't let my thoughts get the best of me.
Why am I lying in the snow?
I'm actually resting.
Sound like fun?
Not really.
I'm resting outside an intimidating cave.
I'm resting outside a dragon's cave actually.
Just for a little while though.
This dragon I mentioned has been terrorizing the village I live in.
And the neighboring ones as well.
We have all been fighting it for a couple years now.
I can't really say fighting.
It stays its distance from our castles.
So the trained archers rarely get a shot at it.
And I can't really say it's a fierce dragon.
It only comes at night and takes what livestock it needs.
The only time anyone even notices it is when it crashes.
Which is often.
I think the dragon is rather young because of that.
Many people say it goes too low when picking up cattle.
That or it picks one up that's too heavy for it to lift.
That's why it crashes.
The dragon is not all bad though.
It united our warring countries.
Temporarily.
This cave consequently lies at the four corners of our countries.
My country, Ivalice, plays a small part in the war.
To the south is the neutral country Pax.
To our east is a large river that divides us from Pravus and Letum south of it.
Those two are really the warring ones.
I guess its just hard for us to stay out of it being so close.
I'm not sure why they fight.
Maybe the cold drives them crazy.
It has been snowing here longer than I can remember.
Anyway in the middle of the icy river is a sinister mountain.
That's where I am.
The only place around fit for a dragon.
By the way my name is Zeth.
And I didn't come here by myself.
I brought Reks along with me.
He's asleep right now though
We have known each other for about three years now.
He is really the only one that would come with me.
Everyone else is, well, I guess they are just afraid to try and fight this dragon.
I can't blame them.
Just the two of us will not be much of a match for this dragon.
I'm sorry, but I misled you.
We didn't really come out here to fight the dragon.
Truthfully we came out here to fake our own deaths.
Life gets quite boring when you just do the same thing all the time.
We lived and worked for our king.
Which is a hard position to get out of.
That's why we volunteered for this assignment.
Neither of us have any family we left behind.
Death is all too common.
The only reason we stopped by this cave is to leave a banner of Ivalice here.
That's all we were expected to do.
They just thought we were young and stupid.
They must have thought we believed we could defeat the dragon.
I guess the king thought it might boost the moral of his subjects.
No one expects us to return.
Death has to be the most useful alibi.
The dragon only comes out at night so we're safe for now.
After this we plan on going to Pax.
A new country for a new life seems fit.
"Hey" a voice called.
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