The Dragon Healer of Tone (World of Tone)
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Authors: A. D. Adams
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The Dragon Healer of Tone
(Book 1)
By: A. D. Adams
Copyright © 2006 by A. D. Adams
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publishers, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed in a newspaper, magazine or journal.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, corporations, institutions, organizations, events or locales in this novel are either the product of the author’s imagination or, if real, used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons (living or dead) is entirely coincidental.
Dedication
This book is dedicated to my Wife, Valentina, with whom I share my love, my life, and my dreams.
A Thought For the Reader
Look to your mind’s eye at sights unseen.
Behold realms of life and joy beyond your reach, but not your dreams.
Envision places of love and adventure that no one can hold, but all can possess.
Welcome to worlds unknown and things unseen.
For only you shall know what you dream.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 - The Birth of a Child
Chapter 3 - The First Year of Life
Chapter 4 - The Birth of a Dragon
Chapter 5 - The Tragic Accident
Chapter 6 - The Long Growing Season
Chapter 10 - The Rescue of a Meal
Chapter 13 - Care and Feeding of a Human
Chapter 16 - Clothes and Other Needs
Chapter 17 - The Time of Growing
Chapter 18 - The Dragon Council
Chapter 21 - Terra’s First Flight
Chapter 24 - Meeting a New Friend
Chapter 25 - Growing Up and Its Problems
Chapter 26 - Exploring the World
Chapter 27 - A Moon Rising Alone
Chapter 28 - Seeing His Kind for the First Time
Chapter 30 - Exploring a Secret Place
Chapter 33 - The Last Lesson of Flight
Chapter 34 - A Visit to a Friends Home
Chapter 35 - Old Friends Visit
Chapter 37 - Terra Rides the Winds
Chapter 38 - Rest and Learning
Chapter 39 - The Training of a Sounder
Chapter 40 - Fienna is Presented to Dragon Society
Chapter 42 - Finding a New Home
Chapter 43 - Preparing to Leave
Chapter 44 - A Teacher Needs Help
Chapter 45 - Someone’s Watching
Chapter 47 - Terra Is Presented to Dragon Society
Chapter 48 - The Word Heard by All
Chapter 49 - The Dragon Healer
Chapter 50 - The Healer of All
Chapter 59 - The Return of Evil
Chapter 63 - A Surprise for All
Chapter 64 - A Search for Knowledge
Chapter 65 - Learning to Cope with Change
Chapter 66 - All Learn of the Change
Chapter 69 - Time For the New and a Change
Chapter 70 - A Time to Find Help
Chapter 71 - A Journey to Remember
Chapter 72 - Experience and Surprise
Chapter 75 - The World Changes
Prologue - The Writer
(15th set of seasons in the age of the Draman)
My name is Kacaba, and I have been assigned to write the history of man and our intertwined relationship with the great dragons. The great Master Scribe Soto assigned three students to create independent manuscripts from which he would pick one as the book for our people to use as a historical guide. Being one of the chosen three honored me.
I plan to write the history as a story rather than a dry thesis of facts. I find stories easier to understand and much more interesting. I would like the reader to know that this is a true history, to the best of my knowledge.
Much of the information was gathered from those who actually participated in the events described. I intend to give the information of our past as factually as possible in a single coherent story, created from all the information I have obtained. Please excuse the first chapter. It is basically a short history of the time before the Draman and is explained in other writings. I thought it wise to explain a bit of the past for the young ones born after this history to give an idea of our existence before the changes brought on by the Draman. From this point forward, I will not mention myself.
Chapter 1 - The Dragon World
(Life and Death a Struggle for All.)
333 set of seasons since the coming of the Averons
Many seasons ago on the Dragon world of Tone a saga of love and magic began that gives dreams reality and hope possibility. The Dragon world was a place of beauty as well as violence and death.
Tone, as its inhabitants called it, was one large continent; its interior vast and unknown to humanity. Along the entire length of the western coast was a ridge of virtually impassable mountains. Amid the mountains and the high coastal cliffs were the deep valleys that lay in timeless mists. At its widest, the valley region was no more than an eleven sun-risings walk for a man.
There were three seasons in the valleys. The cold season started the cycle and was laced with a biting rain that tore at the skin and soul of the people. The cold and wet turned into a short dry period, known as the planting time. Then the long warm wet growing season finished the cycle. The moon of Tone marked seasonal time passage. The great yellow moon went from its full round shape to various crescents, finally ending with no moon at all. It then passed back through the crescents in reverse order until it reached full roundness once again.
This cycle took sixty-two sun-risings. The people knew time based on the light of the sunrise and darkness of the sunset and the seven full moons it took to complete the three seasons. Twice during a single set of seasons, the great full moon turns an angry red color. This happened at the end of the growing season and at the beginning of the dry planting time.
The world that was known to the humans was the misty valleys that existed between the dual evils of the coastal dragons and the mountain Averons. Humans had lived this way for so long that only the ancient legends, told by the storytellers, explained why. The tellers traveled the land singing and chanting the stories for food and lodgings.
Man’s place in this world was one of clouds and nearly endless rain.
The clouds passed over the coastal cliffs then were stopped by the high mountains. Here the clouds gathered into dark and angry masses. They would then incessantly pour their rain onto the mist-laden valleys below. This made planting food crops difficult, and the people were always hard pressed to grow enough food. The mud always seemed to be knee-deep making life a struggle from sunrise to sunrise. For a precious full moon rising, the rain would stop, allowing the plant growers to put their seeds down. The harvest, though, was another story; it was always done in what seemed to be the infinite wetness of the land, and only a small portion of what was planted reached the hungry bellies of the people.
The humans could not venture outside their valleys for fear of becoming a meal or encountering the evil of the black Solan. Legends told that she controlled the hideously deformed giant black fliers known as the Averons. These fliers were the scourge of man’s existence, keeping them trapped in the timeless misty valleys. Legend had it that beyond the mountains were beautiful green fields, rivers, and lakes where rain happened only when it was needed. Who could know without tempting a sure death, for the few who had tried were never heard from again.
The storytellers weaved their tales of dwarfs, elves, and nymphs; the three races that controlled this realm. During a great battle, humanity was driven across the coastal mountains to the valleys beyond. The legends told of the Solans of Tycarr, women of magic, who managed to stop man’s enemies from destroying them completely. This was done by blocking the great mountain passes during the “escape from death.”
The Solans caused huge avalanches that created walls of stones. Many died during this leaving, and only four remained to help the surviving humans in their new existence. The legends said little of the ways of the Solans of Tycarr, other than they were a group of women who were born with magic and had one or two of the nine powers. What these powers were and how they were used was not known. Tycarr was said to be a castle of great towers that the Solans used for training. Once each year they went forth from Tycarr to recruit the young women of the villages who showed magical abilities. It was known to have been a great honor to be chosen for training in the sisterhood.