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A young girl with blue eyes clear as the sky on a sunny day studied the ocean from the balcony of a building high above the ground. The wind blew and a few strands of her long blond hair caught in it pulling them from where they were secured by a braid that fell to her lower back. She wondered weather or not she'd be able to cross it. The way she was traveling it was no small task. The girl sighed and went into her room. She checked her pack once again to be sure that she had everything that she and her companions would need for their journey. Everything was in order. She walked back out onto the balcony and watched as the sun set on the horizon. She knew that in a matter of hours she would be awakened by Alec to leave.

For the past year or so she'd been dreaming of a boy a year or so older than her. This boy was doing all that he could to over throw a man who called himself king, but he needed help desperately. When she first started having these dreams she'd thought them fictional but as they continued she'd realized that they were not.

One day on an impulse she'd taken a bowl of water and scryed for the boy. When she looked into the water she was surprised and amazed to be looking at the very boy from her dreams. He was surrounded by people that she'd seen in her dreams of him before.

That was when she knew for sure they were real. The very next day she had told Alec about the dreams and he informed her that there was indeed a war going on across the ocean. She knew that she had to help the boy, but before she could make a plan she had been called away. In her homeland of Esen on the day you turn 15 you are required to touch a dragon egg. If the egg hatches for you, you go to train to be a rider. Alec was already a rider and she knew that the boy in her dreams was also a rider. The boys mount was a beautiful blue dragoness that she longed to see for real, Oriana Alec's golden dragon was also magnificent.

When she had reached the hatching grounds she'd been nervous and hopeful she wanted with all her might to become a rider. When she'd climbed the steps to where the eggs for this year were she'd held her breath. There were five dragon eggs. One was a deep magenta color; she'd reached out and touched this one first, she held her breath but nothing happened. It often happened that the first egg you touched didn't hatch for you. She reached for the next one a light green color, nothing. She touched the next two a blue darker than the boy in her dreams dragoness and a red one they bore the same results. The last egg was silver and the most beautiful egg. She reached out and touched it although she'd had already given up after the first four. She started to draw her hand back from the egg tears welling up in her eyes when she heard a squeak and a sharp crack she stared at the egg. A crack ran down the side. She watched in amazement as the tiny dragon escaped from his shell. She had reached in amazement out to touch the beautiful scales a pain shot up her arm starting from her hand where she'd touched the dragon. Alea had known that it would hurt but hadn't expected it to be this painful she held her arm to her. When the pain finally subsided she looked at her baby dragon. It looked back at her. She felt its mind brush hers and she felt it wonder who she was. Alea she thought to it I am Alea the words seemed to echo in baby dragons head. Alea picked up the small dragon and headed back to where her parents waited for her wondering if she'd been selected.

She thought back to that day about 10 months ago. The very next day she'd been sent to train with a master rider. Alea had missed her parents badly but not badly enough to quit training to go home and she had been able to talk to them through letters and by other more magical means. Now with her training complete she was free to go across the ocean and see for herself the boy who'd been dominant her dreams for so many months. She looked at the sky wondering what was taking Theron so long. Then she saw him soaring towards her his silver scales shining brightly in the moonlight. She smiled happily at the sight of him.

"What took you so long?" She asked him in an annoyed but loving tone.

"I was hungry," he replied in his low rumbling voice.

Alea laughed at her dragon and moved so that he could fly through the giant arch way that lead from the balcony to their room. Theron landed softly on the floor of their room and lay down looking at her inquiringly.

"Why are you not yet asleep? We have a big day tomorrow," he said.

"I know, but I was waiting for you to get back," she replied.

He closed his eyes. "Go to sleep little one," He said softly.

"Fine" Alea said aloud quietly. She knew he was right she should go to sleep the next day would be the start of it all and she could feel the importance in the back of her mind.

Alea awoke to someone shaking her gently. She opened her eyes; it was Alec "Hello," she said groggily.

"Come on," he said, "Oriana and I are ready," he said naming his own dragon. Alec was a year older than her and her best friend. He was going with her across the ocean. She sat up and saw that Theron was already awake. She put the saddle that she'd gotten when he'd gotten old enough to fly it was a thin sheet of magical cloth that she buckled on him. It would never wear out, would fit him no matter how big he got, and was as impenetrable as magic could make it. In addition it kept her legs from being torn up as they flew and was comfortable and lightweight. She got on his back and they walked out to the balcony where Oriana and Alec waited for them. They flew to the docks where a large ship was waiting to carry them across the ocean. The ocean was too large to fly across so sailing across was the only other option.

Ships rarely went from Esen to the countries, and even then only in secret, across the ocean so she'd had a hard time convincing her parents to let her take a ship. The only reason they'd let her go was because Alec had supported the idea, and they thought that a trip together would make them closer. Her parents wanted her to marry Alec, it was a fact they both knew and accepted. It was an unspoken thing that they both acknowledged and knew was unavoidable. King and Queen of Esen were her parents and Alec's father, a nobleman, had been a friend of her fathers when they were boys. The marriage was as good as set but their parents thought that it would be better if it was treated like it was her and Alec's choice.

They boarded the ship and set sail with the retreating tide before the sun had yet risen. Alea watched as the ship got farther and farther away from the docks. She saw the large building in the distance that had been her home for the past 9 months and farther beyond that the castle where the rest of her life had been spent. She yawned tired from the late night and early awakening. Alec came up behind her and wrapped his arm around her in a half hug.

"Isn't it beautiful?" Alea sighed

"It is," Alec replied in agreement.

They stood like that in a comfortable silence until the city was out of view. Then went to see how their dragons were doing. Theron and Oriana were deep in conversation. They were as good of friends as she and Alec were. They were talking about the country across the ocean and Oriana wondered how they'd find the blue dragoness and her rider. Alea explained that she'd dreamed of the boy taking the trip to a place populated by the Elvin people of the land that was where they'd find the blue rider.

"Why do you always call him the boy or the blue rider?" Alec asked her.

"Because when I wake up I can never remember his name," she said simply.

"Then why do you call him boy?" Oriana asked, "You said that he's a year or two older than yourself."

"I am not sure I guess I could call him the blue rider all the time," she said shrugging.

"Do you remember his dragons name?" Theron asked.

"No," She answered "But she has blue scales the color of sapphires."

Alea yawned again.

Alec grinned teasingly, "I see someone didn't go to sleep when she should have," he laughed as she yawned again.

"I told you, you should have gone to sleep earlier," Theron said haughtily.

"You two are evil" Oriana chided, "Sleep little princess," she said softly.

Alea smiled at Oriana and curled up against Theron's warm belly using her arm as a pillow. She drifted off to sleep blocking out the conversation that continued.

Alec looked at the sleeping girl with unhidden affection. Oriana looked at Alec and said, "You really should tell her how you feel," she indicated Alea with a jerk of her large head.

Theron knew also of the young male riders feelings of affection towards the girl who he was bonded with, "She may share your feelings," he pointed out.

Alec shot a look at Theron, "Shouldn't you know?" he asked, "Can't I just ask you how she feels about me before I tell her?"

Theron said, "I know how she feels for you but I cannot say, she wouldn't want me too. It is up to you find out for your self." Theron knew how she felt about the boy. She was confused, Theron knew that Alea cared for Alec and she knew that she'd most likely be his wife one day, but he knew Alea wondered she cared for him the way that a wife should. It was up to her to make up her mind and up to him to find out for himself.

Oriana laughed at her riders frustration, "You know she cares about you little fool," she said affectionately, "You are her best friend."

Theron snorted as if affronted.

"Other than you Theron, that goes without saying," she said.

"But I want to be more than her best friend," he said. He sighed and laid down against Oriana's belly. "I am going to sleep," he said with a sigh.

Alec drifted off to a dreamless sleep. But while Alec's sleep was dreamless Alea's was anything but.

A succession of images and thoughts barraged unconscious mind her as she slept silently unaware of the conversation that had taken place over her head just moments before.

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