Sixteen-year-old Amel arrived at Dragon School just like everyone else - with a dream to ride dragons and join the Dominion Dragon Riders.
But Amel has a crippled leg and Dragon School training is grueling. Before she can even become an initiate, she must complete her First Flight on a dragon.
Can Amel survive First Flight and become a Dragon School initiate or will her dreams dash on the rocks below?
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The best part about dragon school is choosing your dragon. It’s the part that everyone talks about and the part that they’ll tell stories to their children and children’s children about someday – if they live that long. Dragon Riders don’t live very long. Not that that bothers anyone. If anything, it just makes more of us desperate to live to ride a dragon as one of the Dominion Sky People.
The best part about choosing your dragon is that you join a Dominion Color when you choose. Dragons only come in a few colors, and the color you choose determines your role for the rest of your life – short or long – as a Dragon Rider.
I want to join a Dominion Color and gain a purpose in life. No one wants a cripple like me to do anything except stay out of the way but I’m going to show them that I stand just as much chance as everyone else.
We were clustered on the edge of the towering cliffs, shivering like a clutch of baby chicks. The wind whirled over the black rock of the cliff, blasting us towards the cliff’s ragged edge. Did it expect us to leap and fly like the dragons housed here? Towering high above us, in sweeping arcs and swirling inlays, the Dragons’ cotes were as intimidating as the legends of the great beasts. These weren’t even the grand Dominion Cotes - only Dragon School cotes - but already I felt awed by the sheer size and scope of them.
Our instructor, Grandis Dantriet, strode in front of us, hands clasped behind him, his gnarled muscles bunched under leather straps and flowing silk scarves. He wore his white hair in the Dragon Rider way – long with tight braids mixed between the stray strands.
“Today you choose your dragon. Make no mistake: this choice will define you.”
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Italian
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Translated by Aurora Torchia
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Already translated.
Translated by Ana Cecilia Castaño
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