By: Stacy Harms

Chapter 13

I’m walking and I see a knight in black armor in the distance of a field where wild flowers grow.

I stop and the knight rides closer and closer to me and soon I can see his eyes threw the helmet, their golden, and his horse stops near me.

I reach out and touch its forelock and it nuzzles my hand with its mouth before putting its head down to eat.

The knight dismounts and walks towards me and knells at my feet. Before taking his helmet off to reveal light brown hair that covered his head in a thick but short cut hairstyle.

He raises his head to show his golden eyes and I am taken back by what I know they think, they think love.

He lowers his head once again and says. "I am Prince Stagmaro and I hope to gain your hand, Princess Sidra, for you are the queen of my soul."

I step back by the handsome mans words, the man that had vowed to Saka that he would court me one day. I looked around for Covan but was alone on the plain with Stagmaro, yet I was not afraid as he walked up to me and took my face in his hands, his age is young but his eyes holding wisdom beyond any mere creature other then the dragons.

And I wondered how he did not age for his years are many, I had known of him to be youthful as I was a child.

But not much of anything made perfect since these days, I was lost in thought and before I knew it the stranger whose eyes I was lost in, lip's touched mine and I couldn’t stop it, I backed away started crying, thinking of Covan, my husband to be.

And I looked to the sky and screamed as fiercely and loud as my lungs could endure and then it felt like something pushed me. My legs became no use to me and I twisted in the air helplessly as the ground came closer and closer my heart beating in my ears and a voice came like no other that I had heard before.

"Let go." I said and I felt myself panic for a second and then my body relaxed and my sense took over. My shirt ripped away and wings pure white wings came from my back between my shoulder blades, a felling of relief came to know that they where there.

I closed my eyes as the ground came closer and closer, my body reacted and I sailed feet above the ground before rising higher into the sky and opening my eyes. This was no land familiar to me. There were red cliffs and a river that looked black. I went to grab my emerald and felt my hands where wet, I glanced down at them before me and saw blood covering them, I panicked and looked at my blood stained wings, that when I heard it the yell of panic and pain, Covan's yell saying

"Sidra!"

And the arrows flew towards me but did not harm me, tears ran down my face to the world far below, this blood was not mine it was.

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