Beginning. The Apprentice

The Royal Tract was crowded as usual. Everyone was moving in small groups heading towards exclusive shops or the Central Bank. Some were just strolling along heading for the wealthy villas in the h...

-Draco?- A quiet whisper carried through the abandoned rooms of the old building once used as an orphanage.-Are you here? The old staves of the parquet floor creaked lightly under her foot, fillin...

Othis got out of the carriage, stretched and yawned widely. He was completely exhausted after the ball and several sleepless nights. All he dreamt of was a quiet day and an evening in which he woul...

Bleist looked around the quay once more. He looked at the people who were hanging around there looking for the same two brothers he had met here the day before somewhere among the crowd. He hoped t...

He sat on the floor focused only on what he could sense around him. He calmed his breathing and listened to himself. He knew exactly what the sphere around him looked like despite his closed eyes. ...

Bleist immediately entered the study, without any announcement. Othis did not even look towards the entrance but immediately summoned his friend with a gesture. The Ambassador was sitting at one of...

Othis sat in his office thinking intensely about the passing day. He had done his best and had managed to get several members of the Dragon Council to co-operate with him on a matter of which they ...

Draco walked carefully down the street leading directly to the Academy. He was wary of everyone around him, as he didn't want to fall into any trap that Pirce might set. Of course, he knew that his...

Bleist once again started pacing around the office looking towards the door every now and then. Everyone knew he was terribly nervous, for neither Othis nor Gizel were sure whether all their effort...

Othis adjusted his robe as the door opened. He was curious to see what impression the young dragon-mage would make on him. He had only heard about him from a friend, so he was interested. Additiona...

Draco didn't really know what he should be feeling. On the one hand, he should be devastated at being pushed away from the dragon community, but he was used to it, as everyone treated him as someon...

They quickly reached the southern shopping district thanks to the shortcuts Draco knew by heart. They didn't talk to each other much because of the crowded and cramped aisles. It wasn't until a few...

Draco slowed down by spreading his wings stiffly and landed silently in front of the back entrance of the old orphanage. He swept the entire courtyard with his eyes, paying particular attention to ...

The morning came quicker than Darius would have liked. When he finally dragged himself into the dining hall it was past breakfast time, but he found it waiting for him on the table. After a short w...

Draco put on blue trousers, a shirt with a stand-up collar and black heavy leather boots. Everything lay perfectly, as if it had been tailor-made. He looked at himself in the mirror and found that ...

The southern shopping district was very busy, with customers crowding everywhere, drawn to selected shops, for specific products. The crowd was a cross-section of the entire local society, there we...

Draco emerged on the other side of the portal and saw it for the first time. The walls of Atlantis stretched out in both directions so that he couldn't see where they ended. From behind them rose r...

Draco glanced at his master, and the latter nodded slightly. However, the dragon read more from the gesture. He knew that Bleist felt like sighing and saying that it was the same as with Madame Nas...

Draco was slightly flustered. It had been rather uncommon for him to be invited anywhere before, if you didn't count those few evenings when Jeviev had dragged him over to show him some new book, o...

Draco knew he couldn't help it after the reckless way he had answered the question put to him. The milk had been spilled. He thought without conviction. One has to stick to one version. He looked a...

James wondered why he was sure the mage would ask about this particular armour. He had no idea why, but he had known from the start that he would and that this was the one that suited him best. He ...

Draco watched as the projectile hit something in front of his opponent, slowed for a brief moment, then pierced the mage's arm and hurled him against the door. The rain of spells stopped. There was...

He was waiting to see what would happen now. He himself wasn't sure why he did it, but still, it happened, he said. Darius left it up to him to decide, surely knowing how it would end. The blacksm...

Darius could feel his apprentice's uncertainty all the way through. He hadn't expected the young dragon to be completely unconcerned, but he didn't think he would be that flustered. He also had no ...

Draco sensed that his master was expecting some form of reprimand from the senior majordomo and also that things would start as soon as the door closed. However, he decided to listen to his mentor ...

-Did you tell them?- The Duchess turned towards Darius, and something dangerous lit up in her eyes. As always, I'm the one who has to take a blow. The mage managed to think,- And where was the caut...