Waverunner

"It's.... Beautiful!" Before the young Nocturne knew it, her talons had slipped into the cool, deep blue liquid. " Wow... " she breathed, preparing to leap in fully. "No, Flamerunner!" The elder called, horrified at this. "Why?" The hatchling paused. Elder Flameborn sholk her head. "Fire is killed by this horrible substance they call water. I brought you here to show you this evil manifestation of the tidelord up close."
The nocturne wrinkled her nose. How could you find this horrible? "But... It's beautiful!" She replied, confused. Her guardian looked embarrassed and pulled her away. "Do not speak of this again! Shame!" The dragon hissed at her. "You will not leave the house unless you have smithy duties for a week!" Flamerunner groaned. "But-" "NO BUTS."


That night, exhausted from work, flamerunner drifted into a deep sleep. She saw an ocean, ice floes and light. She vowed when she woke that, no matter what, she would find this place.

Flamerunner winced as the hot iron touched her talon. Fire dragons weren't meant to burn. But she got hurt by almost everything in her own house. Biting back a moan, she scraped the metal into a sword. Oh, what she wouldn't give for some water, soothing her burns... No, she mustn't think about that. No. She would think about the dream-place.

"Elder flameborn?" She walked up to the elder. " i had a dream about this place with water, patterned lights and ice. Where could that be? " the elder shuddered. "That must have been a nightmare. The only place I could think of would be..." Flamerunner sat up straighter. "Yes?" " perhaps the frigid floes, far away in ice... " they were silent for a second. "Where is that?" The nocturne asked, excited. "A day's flight at least, far in the west." He replied. " if anyone were stupid enough to go there.. "But flamerunner was.

The nocturne landed at evening, hovering above the ice, taking it in. She flopped onto a cart. "Hello..." A girl said. " who are you? " flamerunner explained. "Well." Said the girl. " you can come home with us. We live at the frozen sanctum, it's not far. But first, flamerunner really doesn't suit you. What do you think of.."