Sea Dragon Heir
Chapter One
DREAM
Two hundred years later:
When Pharinet was only seven years old, she dreamed of
the dragons. They danced in the sky for her, like moving pictures
from a book, their wings of shell and bone fanned out against the piercing stars.
She stood on the beach below them, jumping up and down, clapping her hands.
They danced for her alone.
When she awoke, it was still dark, and she could hear the restless sea fretting
at the shore below the castle. The dream had filled her up with strange sensations
that felt like excitement, the sort of feeling she had when she was about
to go out visiting her friends with her brother, Valraven. She still wanted to
jump up and down.
Although she never mentioned the dream to anyone, she thought about it
often, until it eventually became buried beneath layers of other dreams and
experiences. In later years, she would realise that the dragon dream had
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