Azar
Eternal Flame
The Dragon Master led me to a room within the castle. We had to go up 4 flights of stairs to get here. Dragon Master walked over to the wall and pulled a lever. The wall came open leaving a whole at least 7 times my height. Just as the wall opened up a huge dragon landed in the opening. It was large, much bigger than the whole it just came through. In its mouth was what looked like a basket, but my attention was drawn away from the dragon. "Duke this is Stendor my dragon companion and Lord of Fire."
Stendor was brightly colored. A gold-yellow scales covered his entire body. He possessed no actual patterns accept for a dark maroon mask over his eyes and along his muzzle to his nose. The scales on his chest were darker in color than the rest of his body. He had twin horns on his head that reached back behind his head. He had a few teeth protruding from his mouth, and a small horn on his nose. His eyes were a deep gold. They seemed proud and full a wisdom. When Stendor stood, he stood with his head held high.
Stendor placed 9 eggs in-front of me. "The eggs that lay in-front of you are from 9 different fire dragons. You may choose one as you companion." I sat on my knees next to the eggs. "Choose from your heart." I examined the eggs carefully. 4 were gold, 2 were red, and the other 3 were smoke colored. I sat there looking over the eggs, but they all seemed the same to me. None of them stood out to me. I stood. "Is something wrong Duke?" I looked at the Master. "None of them seem right for me. They don't feel, right." Dragon Master turned to Stendor. "Stendor do we have any more eggs?" Stendor then grabbed the basket and flew out the opening.
Stendor later returned with 2 more eggs. 1 one was a dark red while the other was strangely blue, but not a normal blue. It was dark, a deep blue that the more you looked at it turned black. The egg gave me a strange feeling. One I could not explain. The egg seemed to speak words I could not understand. I could feel power coming from the egg. Then I heard it the egg called my name, the words were muffled and so far away, yet I understood them. I stood once more, but this time with the deep blue egg in my hands. "This one, I pick this one." The Master just looked at me. He seemed concerned, but was trying to hid it. "Are you sure?" his words were long and drawn out. "Yes, I am Sure." "Normally I would tell you about you egg, but unfortunately not much is know about that egg. So you must ask the dragon its self when it hatches. All I can tell you is that her name is Azar. Come now, let us find a place in your room for her to sleep."
As we walked I couldn't help but think about what has him so concerned. "Is there something wrong with this egg?"