It was The Time
     of The Great Change.....

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Enoon, half fairy, half human, & her comrades,
            Donal & Lenard  The Red,
had stood up to J'on, the fierce red dragon
     overloard of The Castle Elm, & his poor
         powerless underling, the young dragon,Theod.
While they, themselves, chose to leave
      The Elm, they left behind the freedom of
      it's  inhabitants to choose for themselves.
      No longer were they prisoners of J'On & Theod,
but Free Spirits, able to come & go as they
  pleased!
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                  Among those to leave was Tiniae, who , like Enoon,
had The Knowledge of The Cyber, a  power with which
       she could communicate with others over long distances of
     Space & Time.
She & Enoon had been persecuted while at The Elm
  because the troll, Saban ,who was a spy for Theod,
had been jealous of their knowledge & the bond between them.

      Enoon had vowed that all dragons would be her enemies
    for as long as she lived !
They would all pay for the hardships & cruelties
inflicted on her & her friends by
 the greedy tyrant, J'On.
 

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          She left the company of her loyal friends
              And, for a time, she became a slayer of dragons.

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        Fighting as fiercly as any man, she soon lost contact
 with her fairy Spirit, & fell victim to her all-too-human
        obsession with REVENGE !!
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    Granted, the dragons she slew were of bad blood & temper,
victimizing poor villagers & nobles alike, evil creatures,
      but, to Enoon, weren't they ALL ?!

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Then, one day, while on her vengeful journey, she came upon
two human men in the road.
There, beside them, was a small, old dragon!
" Look sharply, humans!", she shouted as she drew her
         sword & prepared for battle !
      " Enoon will protect you!"
            The men looked puzzled at this confrontation,
but one realized the mistake that had been made.
 " No, NO!!", he yelled, waving his arms & running towards her.
" It's not like you think, warrior ! This here is Old Flint !
  He is mine & Urk's friend !
Enoon could not comprehend this !
       A dragon for a " Friend" ?
 Yet, as she looked at the three, she saw that there had
    been no altercation between them.
 Indeed, the three did look like traveling companions!
She dropped her Warrior Stance & sheathed her blade.

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Once the threat of being slain had left Old Flint, he looked at
  Enoon & smiled.

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      " You, my Girl, have been wronged by one of my kind, have you not ?",
he asked quietly.
 Enoon could not believe her ears !
This dragon's voice was calm & pleasant !
    He had none of the ferocity she had come to expect from
" his kind".
He had a grace which she had not known could be exuded
by a member of his species.
 " Ah ! I can see in your eyes that I am right!
It is so much more the pity !
I have learned that , at some time,
I may be called upon to pay for another dragon's foul deeds !"
  He smiled again & sat down by the side of the road.
          " But , Blessed Be, not today, ey, my Friend ?"
         He had called her " Friend ", &, for some reason,
she was not offended.
     " If you've the time, and an ear for it", he continued,
       " I've a story to tell......"

      To Be Continued....

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