1. Everen: The Fall

Summary

• The chapter is written from the perspective of Everen, the last male dragon, who is supposed to fulfill a prophecy to save his kin from ruin.
• Everen vividly reminisces about his flying experiences and the community of dragons before he embarked on a quest to fulfill the prophecy.
• Despite his sister Cassia's warnings, Everen steals a prophecy key and seeks out the specifics of his destiny.
• His journey leads him into a Veiled storm, a rip in the spatial boundary between dimensions and potential danger. Here, Everen undergoes a painful transformation into a weakened, non-red-scaled form and is cast into a new environment.
• Everen is thrust into an alien, cold environment drastically different from his home, Vere Celene. He possesses a smaller form which the dragons took when they performed delicate work. This form is considered an abomination by many dragons, and some dragons never transform at all.
• Trapped in this alien space, Everen finds a human being - the first he's ever seen - and recognizes that this human is Arcady, whom this story is directed to.