When Tracey awoke the next morning she noticed all of the ash and coal her clothes picked up was washed away and her hair had gone from a tangled mess to stright and smooth.
Then something landed right in front of her. It was a package, lightly painted with the same strange purple and green color that were on the trapdoor.
Tracey looked up, only to find a rocky ceiling.
A small hole was in the bag. Only being nothing at first, that hole grew to the size of a human hand. Tracy could see a small scale as she backed up to the cold cave wall.
Two glowing green eyes peered out causiosly, staring Tracy down. And then, behind the eyes a full body of a purple and green creature was pulled out and landed on Tracy's stomach.
"Why is this human in my house?" it growled, cute and scary at the same time, "I, Nesaliani do not like visitors."
The small creature walked on her hind legs like a T-rex but had small, pointed wings like a dragons.
"I got lost," Tracey squeaked.
"Oh," the small thing said, her voice becoming softer, "I'm Nesaliani, the youngest and only good paliceo left. Oh, and paliceos are little dragon cretures like me."
"Makes sence, I'm Tracy."
"Tracy, Tracy, hmm," Nesaliani muttered, lingering on the thought of her name.
"Tracy, I advise that now is a good time for us to leave."
"But the trapdoor, it...wait, us?" Tracey asked, "you said you wanted me out..."
"You seem like someone worth helping, and the trapdoor only opens for things born in my world; Ortrabis," Nesaliani replied, a smlie creeping onto her purple face.
"Thanks."
The two of them climbed up the old, rickety ladder and started heading out of the burnt house. Only one thought still floated in Tracy's mind. Ortrabis? Was she really born in a world of mini dragons?
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Nesaliani - A Glimmer of Hope
FantasíaWhen was the last time the only awful home you've ever known burns down and nobody but you survived? Ten-year-old Tracy Netovedmil lost her parents at the age of three, her brother nearly died with the flu, and has to live in an orphanage in the mid...
