I remember the first day out of my shell. how i had to run behind everyone because my stubby little legs were too short to keep up. I remember exploring a vast country side with creatures every. i remember my first trip to harrow. as i was running down the road the sky turned black and lightning struck because a werewolf had attacked. i remember the mine. sitting out front day and night, watching all those bipeds have all the fun contributing, all i got to do was kill a few things. stupid satyrs. i remember the islands, and think i still have the bump to prove it. much more has happened. like the first day wy wings grew in, i thought i would never land. i remember the end of days. everyone working frantically to contribute to the Novo. and then the distruction of my home....
i remember waking up in a new place, like my home, but not. few fields existed, now it looked like a subdivion, houses everywhere. the creatures had different migratory patterns, and seemed skittish, for they rarely appeared. then next to nothing.
Now, now where are we. have we angered the gods. where have we gone wrong. i often wonder if maybe we didnt pray enough, or maybe, the whole gifted thing was not a blessing from the gods, but from someone else. for these days the gods seem dormant. The Withered Aegis, still continually kill us, one by one. though someone new must be leading them. for even many of the gifted....are not returning from the dead. every morning you open your eyes it seems another friend, neighbor, companion, ally has been slain never to return to life. where are our gods in this time. have they forsaken us, left us to die a slow painful death. maybe they are the true masterminds behind the Aegis.
Is it their intentions to kill us all off. fi so, why is it their intention. how have we forsaken then. for what reasoning must we endure this. an answer from the gods of istaria is greatly needed. for the future is no longer as clear as it once was. it seems that as time goes one, the blight expands over more and more of our home, and everything might soon be lost.
If the gods of istaria are still around and on our side, why is it they can not shine a light give us that little glimmer of hope we have long sought in this perpetual darkness.
is all lost or is there hope
(an except from the journal of Bright the dragon)