Daughter to Dragons-Chapter One

Valfrea discovers a battle took place at the location where she was supposed to meet her father. She believes elven magic was involved, which means the elven extremist cult is involved. She tries to track him down.

Summary
About a week prior to the start of the story, Valfrea received a message from her father, Hakkon, to rendezvous with him at a remote location. Upon arrival, she discovers that a huge magical battle had recently taken place, leaving the area obliterated. She begins scouring the area for any clues of what happened and if her father had been there, if he was alive or dead. She finds some debris from some destroyed wagons and broken pieces of elven runestones, which she takes with her to study later. This confirms that the elven cult her father had been investigating had something to do with this. She also discovers places where several elves had been killed, but their bodies removed. She's able to determine that the battle took place, at most, three days ago. Using her keen senses, she begins following the few tracks left behind and finds a single scale from the hide of her father's dragon-form. She wonders whether this was left behind purposefully or not.

She tracks take lead her further and further into the mountains until she can no longer see them. Frustrated and afraid, she returns to the area where they were supposed to meet and decides that her best bet is to retrace his footsteps, figure out where he's been to help her figure out where he was going. To do that, she decides she needs her half-brother, Rune, the only person in the world who knows her father better than she does. To find him, she uses a complex rune carved from the wood of the goddess Ilvernya's sacred tree and hopes that Rune still keeps his on him or else it wouldn't work. Though she has no elf blood to activate the rune, Rune's elven mother taught her a few tricks: using a vial of water blessed by a lake goddess, N'Tyreia, she douses the rune and drips a drop of blood from a pricked finger onto it, giving her a limited ability to use the talisman. It was enough, imprinting a location that it's sister rune was located. Though unhappy that she used the last of her blessed water, she is satisfied that she now had another lead. Shifting into dragon-form once again, she takes to the sky, hoping to find her half-brother before he moves on.

Appearing Characters

 * Valfrea Dragonheart

Characters Mentioned

 * Hakkon Dragonheart
 * Rune
 * Bayliniah