Chapter One - A child's dream.
She was surrounded by darkness, and couldn't find her way. She had been beside the egg that she was guarding, but now she could not feel it beside her. "Tannin!" She cried out desperately. "Mother!" She reached into the darkness, trying to find something to grab on to. The darkness became more black, and she desperately she wanted to feel something familiar to her touch. But no matter how far she walked into the increasing fog, she could find nothing.
"Mother!" She screamed. She was filled with fear. Suddenly the fog was gone and she found herself standing in the shadow of a dragon. "Tannin?"
She realized that the dragon was not her mother, but another. This dragon was not like her mother though. She knew that he was here for one thing: to kill.
She tried to run, but couldn't. She was stuck to the spot and she felt the heat of the dragon's breath on her skin. Her flesh was burning, but that was the least of her concerns. The egg, her brother, had been destroyed before her eyes. And she was still alive, panting on the ground. Her end was near.
Suddenly she was flying. She was above the world. She had forgotten about the terror that had filled her heart just moments before, she was flying! "Tannin!" She yelled into the sky, "Tannin, I'm flying!" But the moment of euphoria ended as soon as she looked down. Her mother was battling the black dragon, but she was losing.
And so Tannin fell to the black menace. And as her mother fell, the girl began to fall from the sky as well. "My only desire, is to learn to fly. I wanted you to see my fly." she thought, tears welling up in her eyes. And everything went black once more.