Vivek Raghuram

A Trial By Fire

"There weren't always dragons in the Valley. The Grungpa speaks of a time when the Valley was deserted. The rivers ran dry, the trees were bare, the animals had no young. Then came the Hroynir, the great dragons. Nobody knows where they were born but one day they just appeared: some from underground, some from the clouds, and some, it is rumored, came from the realm of the stars. Then the Valley blossomed, the trees burst into fruit, the rivers swelled past their banks, and the herds and prides resumed their eternal dance of life and death."