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Woodscape- on old Bellria, sits by pool with small waterfall crying. Finds old bird near death, catches it, it dies contented, feels better since she learned something, day passes.

Massacre- Wakes up from fitful dreams, witnesses killing, does not alert anyone, instead runs.

Memory II -Darkness, vertigo overwhelms, feeling of age old pursuit, panic. Comes to senses, makes camp in an old hollow pine, goes to sleep.

Wandering- Years pass numberless, wanders from hold to hold, doing limited drudge work and being a maid several times. After 5 years or so, is picked up on a desolate road by a merchant train, learns to cut and shape jewels, becomes adept at making beautiful jewelry. Also is good at the horse trade, finds Bellria again, gets for good price, also finds several good horses for her merchant family.

Singing of Dawn- Is heard singing one night by the head master of the Train, or Father as Shazi calls him. He asks her to perform every once in a while in return for free living expenses. Realizes he is just giving her a good reason to accept his adopting her as his own daughter, Shazi happily agrees. More time passes, Shazi is now the Heir to the merchant train since her Father has no children and his wife died. Falls in love with a young son of a sword smith,Devrian, they spend a lot of time together, he gives her a long hunting knife, for defense and teaches her to use it, she makes him a beautiful pendant of crossed swords and a flying dragon, and shows him a little of jewelry making and how to spot top quality work. Happiness and peaceful bliss ensue, the voices become a distant nightmare.

Attack- Bandits and fighters for hire attack the Train, everyone but a few women are killed, few children are also kept as slaves. Shazi is taken prisoner, Devrian dies defending her and her father, then her Father is also killed right before her, his limp body falling over her. Trying with his last breath to save her. The voices pound in her skull, grabbing her knife, she kills 12 bandits before being subdued. Terrified of what she had done and t had happened, she sinks into a deep depression.

Torture- A few months pass, Shazi is abused and beaten regularly, the voices and haunting dreams become her only solace. Finally a local Lord Holder sends a force of his own Guard to subdue the bandits after the regular Merchant Train doesnt arrive as usual and their had been several raids on his lands.

Rescue- After being saved by the Guard, Shazi, now 18, is taken to the main hold, one Runner Hold, were she finds out that no one but herself was still alive, and all of theirs goods had been stolen, and all the animals, including Bellria, had been either killed or sold. She meets Gaelen, the son of Dragonriders and the adoptive son of the Lady Holder of Runner, since there was no Lord. He was unofficially considered the Heir by the holders and the Lady Lorelli, but he still dreamed of being a Dragonrider. Amongst other things, she also meets Gaelens longtime friend Junna, who is the daughter of the Lord and Lady Holders of the wealthy Raseac Hold. SHazi finds out that Junna has secret plans for Gaelen, that she intends to keep him from becoming a Dragonrider so that he would marry her and they could combine both Rasaec and Runner holds.Shazi is sickened since during the few weeks she had been at Runner she had come to know Gaelen, and realized he was a lot like her old love Devrian. She tells Junna that if she really loved Gaelen she wouldnt take his dream from him, but Junna doesnt care, latter she manages to get Gaelen to make love with her. Shazi is angered and goes to the Lady Lorelli, telling her all. At first Lorelli doesnt believe her, then when Junna comes out later that she is pregnant and demands that Gaelen marry her, Lorelli calls for a council of the Lord Holders in the area and for the Weyrleaders of the protective Fire Ridge Weyr to attend. A long meeting ensues, ending with Gaelen to be forced to marry, but not by the consent of either Weyrleaders of Lorelli herself. Then Junna is mysteriously murdered, and some eyes go to Shazi.

Troubled Waters- The powerful Bavaria hold is in turmoil when the old Lord is also murdered, some people believe both murders are connected, and since could have not possibly done both, eyes are turned from her to the heir to the Bavaria Lordship, one Cordello. Shazi is sent by Lorelli with Gaelen to seek out an informant at Bavaria hold, Gaelen is stopped and questioned by guards, and Shazi uses the opportunity to get away from him, while going down an alley, she trips over a still body. It turns out to be a dragonrider named Achel, and he was unconscious with poison and lost mentally in his delirium. Shazi treats him with her long forgotten knowledge of healing, somehow stopping the poison and after wrapping him in her cloak, she picks his light body up and lays him down in a hidden place. Then goes off in search of Gaelen, finding him, she directs him to the dragonrider, then goes off in search of his dragon. She finds the dragon, whose odd coloration she had never seen nor heard off, Nightstorm. The Dragon opens one golden eye and actually speaks to her, asking if she knew where his rider was. She comforts the dragon, called Ruinae, and tells him she herself had tended him and that she would take him to his rider. The dragon agrees and she helps the large beast to his feet, then leads the dragon to Runner hold.

Conspiracy- The Dragonrider, Achel, delirious with pain, explains to both Shazi and Gaelen why he had been in Bavaria undercover, and more importantly, what happened to put him in his current state. Shazi gives him some pain medicine that also puts him to sleep, then with Gaelen in tow, tells Lorelli.

At the Weyr- Weyrleaders Copper and Ltrel wait impatiently for Achels return and for some reports from their chief overt wingleader, Palanthalas. As they wait, a Runner and rider arrive at the front gate, Shazi, who had departed on orders from Lorelli to tell everything to the Weyrleaders while she gathered her forces fro a defensive against Bavaria. Upon Shazis arrival, every dragon roars and all elves and magic bearing people jump, Copper and Ltrel run out onto their ledge and hurriedly climb on their dragons and meet shazi. She explains what happens but before any questions are answered the conversation is cut short by the arrival of an entire wing of dark colored dragons led by a gigantic bronze ridden by a tall silver haired rider.

Palanthalas- Palan delivers his reports about Eien and worsening conditions at Bavaria, throughout his wing had remained airborne, now they land in a lose circle of dragonflesh and riders. Shazi is scared and tries hard not to show it, then the cold, emotionless Palan turns his golden gaze on her and she feels faint. Irritated, the elven mage tells her in no uncertain terms that if she did faint he would get the information she had directly from her mind. Angered she glares at him dead in the eye and repeats her tale. He smirks a little(considering this is Palan here, that is worth mentioning) and asks her what level she is, Shazi doesnt know what hes talking about and he doesnt elaborate, instead ordering his wing out then mounting his bronze Seidoshokuth and vanishing to between.

Bavaria- Shazi gets a ride back to Runner Hold on a riderless black dragon named Rath. Gaelen meets them both out on the airfield, something passes between him and rath, then rath leaves. The two humans then mount up on two runners stabled not to far away and ride back to the hold. When they get to the hold, they both inform Lorelli of recent events and the disappearance of one entire wing of dragons, all of which were special missions riders.They are then told that Cordello had gathered his fighters and they were moving to attack both Runner and Rasaec Holds. However, Lorelli had predicted that and sent out a force of calvary to meet the oncoming army, and now she was organizing two other forces, one to go to Rasaec, the other to help the first one at Bavaria. She was also having Gaelen organize the defenders of the main hold and the surrounding cotholds. Shazi decides to ride out with Lorelli and the reinforcements to Bavaria.

Battle- At Bavari, Cordello meets both forces of Runner and the Rasaec Guard with fierce fighters in numbers no one had ever imagined he could have gathered. Battle ensues, Shazi herself comes face to face with Cordello in the midst of it.

Cordello- he tries to kill her(obviously) she evades and recognizes him as one of the Foster Lordlings from the first hold she remembered, where she had been a drudge, where she had witnessed massacre. She asks him how he escaped and he grins, and says that since shes going to die, hell tell her, he had organized the migrants, supplied them with weapons, gave them important information, and they in return regarded him as their child prodigy. Then when those men were no longer useful, had them killed by his father, who had been in on the plan all along. They in return got the ruined hold since all the former Lords family was dead. Shazi, enraged, charges forward, knowing that this man had been behind all the recent raids involving well armed bandits and rogues, including those that had killed the merchants and Devrian. With lightning speed she kills Cordello with one deft stroke with the long knife Devrian had given her and taught her to use.

Afterward- The Dragons of Fire Ridge end the fight with their mere presence, surrounding the ruined hold with glowing and hateful eyes. Bronze Rider Mshall finds Shazi curled up in a tight ball on the ground under a twisted fellis tree. Her skin is pale and cold to the touch, her eyes lifeless, the bleeding body of Cordello is found not to far, Shazis knife protruding from his ribs. Its raining.

New day- The two healers, Arwyn and Leladry are both asleep from maxing out their energy in healing her when Shazi next awakens. By her side, Gaelen has his hand on hers, his head resting on his other arm, hes also asleep, on a chair next to is Achel, the Dragonrider she had saved, he too is asleep. In a shadowed corner, something glints silver in the glow light, its Palan.

Knowledge- he had cast a light sleep spell to keep the others in dreamland, then aproached the bed. He tells her that while she has no magical power, he couldnt understand while he still sensed it around her, then he had realized she had two spiritual guardians with her, whose prescence made it seem like she had Power. He then offers to make them visible to her, so she can communicate with them. Shazi agrees, not seeing why not. The two guardians turn out to be a tiny silver fairy with curly white hair and white wings named Alyia and a spirit bird named Vain, who was silvery and almost totally transparent. He also explains a little about them, and that a lot of people have sprirt guardians, but never realize it, that in fact it was common for people on his world, human, elf, and even dwarf alike to have a mage make their guardians visible. Shazi nods and introduces herself to the creatures, who oddly remain silent.

Storytime-Palan explains a little bit more, then gives the two guardians the ability to make themselves invisible and visible again at will, then awakens the others. When the dragonriders and the two healers awake and realize shes fine, they want to know her story, and when Shazi tels them all she can remember, which averages to only a few years, the powerful healer and telepath Leladry offers to bring back her memories. Scared that such a thing was possible, and that it would bring back the voices, Shazi declines, then asks everyone to leave. But the voices come anyway, as if only thinking of then brings them back.

Memory III- Words from years long gone come back from the ghostly past to haunt her yet again, faces as pale as distant starlight float in the disembodied darkness, then as Shazi cries out in remembered pain, their eyes slowly open, and bodies take form, as the dead rise again and their eerie and grosteque voices turn from evil to beautiful and lilting, drawing her away from it all, pulling her into oblivion...

 

Intrigue- Copper and Palan meet while Shazi sleeps in the Weyrleaders coucil room