Chapter Two – The Egg

Meanwhile, other wars were spreading around the globe very quickly.

Inside the Black Forest, near Titisee lake, a female dragon about to lay an egg, was dragged in the middle of the battle and was hurt in the process, fell and tumbled down. In the deep of the Forest, as far as she could go to protect her spring, the egg came out. It was a deep sapphire blue, with several white spots with a red dot in the middle of each spot. It had a darkish blue tinted on the tip. Suddenly the wind blew hard and knocked the egg over and it rolled down the hill, leaving the lifeless dragon alone.

Near there, a small boy called Ellard was hunting a group of four red deer. With his bow, some arrows and a carved hunting knife, he shot two down and threw his knife at another. The other escaped in a blurred frenzy of dust as the deer sped away through a small clearing. The mist was replaced by a sunflower that folded backwards to reveal a polished blue stone to a curious Ellard. As a nine-year-old from a small village, he didn’t know about dragons, and for him, that stone was just that, an ordinary stone, but so beautiful that he decided to take it home with him. After all, his older brother Jorn was a stone collector and expert, he knew all different types of rocks in the whole region and he certainly knew which rock that was.

Tillie, Ellard’s older sister was waiting at the door. “It’s time to eat, Ellard!” She shouted as the noon sun shone on Ellard when he staggered into view, surprised at how long he was there, entranced by the alluring stone and just now realising how heavy it was.

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