Dragon Haven Book 1

Chapter 22

Eli's POV

"Ugh where am I? Why can't I remember what happened?" I asked brushing my long black hair away from my face. "Ugh this is so frustrating!" I shouted and sighed and fell back. I stared up at the vast blue sky. The sun was high in the sky and the heat was broiling. "Oh dragon eye... Can't you show me where my friends are?" I asked closing my left eye and staring towards the sky for a bit...

"Hello?" Someone asked and I sat up instantly. I surveyed the area and from the brush appeared a girl, she had long white hair as pure as snow, calm gentle blue eyes, and a colorful bird sitting on her shoulder. "Oh there is someone here! See Pico, I told you I heard something." She said and the bird squawked at her.

"Who are you? Why are you in this jungle in the middle of nowhere?"

"I could ask you the same thing silly. My name's Aeysho people call me the Bird Lady."

Chapter 22: Bird Lady.

"Okay... My name's Eli..."

"Eli? Isn't that a boy's name?" Aeysho asked in response scratching the bird's beak.

"Yes I suppose it is... It's short for Elizabeth." I replied moving my hair back to cover the Dragon Eye.

"Ah... Well then Eli can I interest you in coming back to my campsite for some tea?" She asked, her offer was tempting, but I was in unfamiliar land, for all I know it could have been a trap.

"Sure." I said against my better judgement and she smiled clapping her hands together.

"Okay! Come now follow me." She said and I followed after her.

We walked through the jungle for a bit until we emerged into a clearing with a large tent towards the back, in the center of the clearing was a circle of stones with some sticks propped against each other. "Here we are. Pico found this lovely clearing." Aeysho said and her bird squawked again. "No need to brag Pico I gave you credit."

"It's quaint and peaceful that's for sure..." I said and she ducked into her tent and returned with a kettle, two stones, and a metal stake in the shape of an L. She set down the kettle and stones and stuck the L into the ground so that part of it was hanging over the fire pit. She took the stones and clacked them together over the pit until a fire ignited.

"There we go." She said and watched the fire crackle for a bit. "Nice and warm." She said and picked up the kettle and chained into the L over the fire. "Now we just wait for that to boil."

"Your very... Primitive in your methods... Keita would've just used a fire totem to heat up one of his various coffees." I said and crouched down by the fire.

"Well I don't have anything magical to light a fire with... So tell me Eli where are you from?" She asked sitting down brushing some soot off her legs.

"I'm from the Mangrove City in Fiore."

"Fiore huh? I'm from the country of Mousetafa." She said and I cringed a bit. Isn't that where the Phoenix Army is from? "I'm actually the personal Diviner to his Holiness."

"His holiness?"

"Yes... The High Phoenix Priest. Don't tell anyone but I'm actually here with His Holiness right now... We're on a very important mission."

"Tell me... How do your divine things?"

"The ravens.... Ravens are wise beyond their years... They whisper me things they see and hear and with this information and I use my foresight to weave together a future."