Ian T. Schulz

Scales

There weren't always dragons in the Valley. The pervasive belief that they had crawled out of the primordial chaos was bunk. Hokum. The dragons had fed the first of the earth-bound races a false provenance, and waited centuries for it to set. A few believed the lie, passing it to their children. Time did the rest. Apocrypha became myth, then myth became common knowledge: Dragons were the first to taste the morning dew, and would be the last to stand upon the earth when it crumbles into dust.