The Tale of the Night Fury (Prologue) by Ally-the-Fox-20, literature
Literature
The Tale of the Night Fury (Prologue)
Prologue
Cold…
it was his first sensation…
Pain the second
and a strange feeling of floating the third…
A brown and blue eye was opened in a bleary effort: anything seen nothing but a dark-blue-greyish blur.
The water lay dark around him there he drifted; fingers stiff around the edges of a plank; that kept his head and shoulders over the water’s surface. His limbs were numb from the cold water, and loos of needed blood, his head hurt and he couldn’t feel his left leg, at all but no warning-bells rung in his head; or maybe they did but their sound lost in the grogginess that his mind was in.
A dirty white shirt
How to Court a Dragon Prince, Chapter One by JayaLaw, literature
Literature
How to Court a Dragon Prince, Chapter One
TWO MONTHS AGO
In the old days at a Thing, Vikings would spend the first day battling to see who spoke first. Now we're civilized warriors. Those who arrive first, talk first. Those who argue get punched. No one declares war, so we've made peace. What an achievement.
That gave my father and me an advantage, for only Berk had learned to ride dragons. Dad and I left, chief and son, on our respective Thunderdrum and Night Fury. Our retinue would follow by boat because the other dragon riders had to stay and mind the Academy, or at least mind each other. Dad fretted, but Things were CIVILIZED. No one would attack on Frigga's Promise, the island