3. Everen: The New Old World

Summary

• In this novel's chapter, the protagonist finds herself in another dimension, inhabited by humans.
• The protagonist suggests she is a dragon who has been transformed into a human shape as she describes unfurling her wings and sensing her inability to change into her true dragon form.
• Despite her fear and anxiety, she observes a human who seems to possess some rare abilities, such as creating a pulsing blue light from an object.
• The protagonist feels a hunger that is seemingly connected to humans and is driven by a strong urge to eat.
• After closely observing the human and understanding a bit more about his state, she senses her own hunger and secretly prompts the human to eat his food.
• Anxiety fills her as she realizes she has successfully made it through the human world, something no dragon has been able to do for centuries.
• Her goal now is to remain undetected as she understands that humans could easily overpower her if they knew her true nature.
• In the midst of her anxiety, she tries to remember the names of human things and foods, like bread - amusingly failing at it.
• She walks through a city, trying to fit in and observe as much as she can about her surroundings and the people while journeying toward the forest.
• Uncomfortably inhabiting the preterit, or temporary, human form, she heads to a forest clearing.
• After trying and failing to transform back into her dragon form, panic sets in. She then experiments a bit with her appearance, manipulating her features to appear more human.
• She reflects on a prophecy she believes pertains to her current situation: a bond between a human and a dragon, a partnership that had ruined dragons in the past.
• The chapter concludes with the protagonist's resolve to find the human she had observed before, expectant that fate will guide her to her next steps.