Shelby Brown

The Dragons War

There weren’t always dragons in the Valley, and soon it will be that way again. The fifty year war for our Valley was promised to end soon. King Orhan said that our homes would be taken back, that the dragons who were tearing apart our village would be purged. I clung to that promise like a security blanket throughout training. I think many of us did. The thought of sleeping in warm comfortable beds instead of disheveled, worn-out tents. Freshly cooked meals, not month old bread. That dream, that promise, kept us going, kept us on our march forward.