Chapter I- Another Discovery
The sky was gray and dreary; perfect weather for me. The woods stretched ahead of me green and vibrant in the gloom.
At least no one will bother me out here, I thought darkly, stepping into the thick foliage.
It was mid season and everything was still wet with moisture. The woods were eerily silent as I walked through the trees. Nothing disturbed the silence except for the occasional bird twittering to its neighbor. My thoughts wandered aimlessly as my feet as I continued my gloomy trudge through the damp. Before I realized it I was far from the house without any buildings in sight. I stopped in confusion.
I haven't walked that far have I? I wondered to myself.
The day continued to grow old as the light dimmed. My aimless walk had brought me to a wide clearing with a small creek running across the far side. I tried to pinpoint my location but with the sun hidden and sinking I couldn't use it as a guide, and he small hills that rest behind the church had disappeared from sight. My thoughts slowed with fatigue and worry as I sat on a rotted log beside the stream. Nothing worse could have happened. Stuck in the woods, at night, with no way back.
"Great job Abe, you've actually managed to get lost this time!" I yelled out loud.
Suddenly a shapeless blur at the edge of the forest caught my attention. Rising from my seat I jumped across the stream and ran to where I had seen the movement. Nothing appeared to me as I approached spot, but suddenly a cry rang out above me.
"Wyrda!"
Startled I peered up into the tree above me only to see a stark white raven.
"Wyrda!" Came the strange cry again.
This strange anomaly I knew should have flown away as soon as I had approached, so why did it stay? The large white bird cocked its head at me and stared down with a beady eye that I noticed was a pale blue color.
"A long, long journey a lost man will make,
only for the shadows all to take." Screeched the bird wildly.
Even more startled I stumbled back from the bird cursing. My mind had found the answer to the mystery. Quite sure that I was not insane, my mind had gathered the memories of an amazing series I had once read. Later in the book a future telling white raven named Bladgen had appeared as a character in Ellesmera, the elven city. Somehow the book had manifested itself into reality.
Remembering the basics of the book I cleared my mind and thought out Bladgen is that you?
The bird naturally did not reply to my attempts at communicating but cocked its head a second time before taking flight and disappearing into the gloom of the clearing. Night had almost fallen now and it was extremely dark. Running after the bird I noticed a loud rushing of branches and wind. Great gusts of wind whirled through the meadow tearing through the grass like a wild animal. A great clap of noise punctured the air as the wind suddenly stopped. In the center of the clearing a great nimbus of what I now knew was magic grew, stretching tendrils of glowing whitish power across the grass.
Stumbling with my now shocked hearing I tried to move away from the glow, back into the forest but I couldn't move my legs. Something within me held me in place. Suddenly with a burst of light that sent me reeling the ball of energy dissolved in to an elliptical portal of swirling green and gold shards. The bird that I knew to be Bladgen stepped up to the yawning glow and flew through. I knew then of course that this portal, for it was a portal led back through reality and into the world of Inheritance and the book I had read so long before.
Flashing repeatedly the portal hummed and before dissolving into a faint glow shot out a new item that hurled through the air and into the forest. I stumbled and fell to my knees. What I had just seen was incredible, impossible even if I still trusted everything I knew about the universe. Clambering to my feet I stumbled towards the woods where the object had disappeared. I was having trouble walking still so as soon as I reached the woods I sat down on a large root. The sky was near pitch now and I was having trouble seeing after the bright light of the portal, but something near my foot I caught a glint. Reaching out into the darkness I felt for the object, as soon as my hand touched it I gasped. If I had felt what I thought I had… Everything would change. Cautiously this time I picked up the object and marveled at its lightness.
Sitting on my lap was a large black gem with thin veined webbing of a whitish material. This I knew was a dragon egg.