Ruan Minear
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The Grey Siren
There had not always been dragons in the valley. But that was because most people did not understand what dragons were. As I staggered through the noisy camp I wondered whether Karrigan had understood the truth. It was doubtful, because if he did know, then this whole affair of poisoning me made him a colossal fool.
By Ruan Minear4 years ago in Fiction
The Stolen Prophecy
There were not always been dragons in the valley. Or, more accurately, they were not always awake. One only had to look at the huge, crumbling holes torn in the valley walls to know that there had been hundreds in the course of human history. Technically it was incorrect to call the valley, a valley. It had not been created by any river or long melted glacier; it was a gouge cut into the earth when the first dragon, Northstar, had fallen from his constellation into the ground. It had taken about one hundred years for the meteoric flesh to sublimate and birth the first rocky giant, but since then, whenever a cluster had appeared, the occasion had always been regarded as portentous.
By Ruan Minear4 years ago in Fiction
Serpent in the Ice
There were not always dragons in the valley. The chronicles told stories of conquests, full of the boasting of long-dead kings who had seen to it that any dragon entering the slopes about the river Hjallron, was grounded. Pushed back into the icy northlands, the huge creatures had been hunted aggressively, and it was the Rimebreaker kings who had taken this, the greatest valley for the dominion of men. For forty years that security had held.
By Ruan Minear4 years ago in Fiction
