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Sabra Mendez always seemed to be a magnet for the strange and unusual in her otherwise ordinary world. Her most frequent guests were dragons. Big dragons, little dragons, red dragons, blue dragons, loud dragons, quiet dragons, rash dragons, and passive dragons. She knew each of the regulars by name, even a set of twin dragons that came in separately once a month. Sabra knew dragons better than she knew herself. . .
Twenty-eight-year-old Sabra Mendez leads anything but a normal life in the coastal city of Buenos Aires, but nothing could prepare her for coming into possession of a dragon egg. Now, she will have to embark on a journey to restore the dragon to its rightful place and keep it from those that wish it harm. The story of an amicable bartender, a precarious witch, a feisty theater major, a mysterious loner, a ten-year-old boy, a naive hatchling, an arrogant princess, a silent historian, and a disdainful spy on a journey to bring peace to the modern mythological world surrounding them.
Disclaimer: I am a white, American high school student. I am writing characters very different from myself who speak a different language and live in a different country. I have three semesters of high school Spanish, decent research skills, and a fairly open mind. There are going to be all sorts of flaws because this is a challenge with the resources at my disposal. Please provide any constructive criticism you can with culture, language, or even story. As long as you're polite, I will take it with the utmost respect! :)
She'd spent many years playing in this forest as a child. While Selene had enjoyed her novels in the warmth of the house, a blanket wrapped around her narrow shoulders, Sidra always came home covered in mud and scrapes from hours out in the wilderness. She'd take an axe out into the forest and pretend to fight off monsters, the terrifying Mystics that her grandmother had told her stories about. She'd pretend to fight Lycans, knocking out their massive teeth one by one. She'd stand atop rocks and throw her axe at the trees, pretending they were wood nymphs come to steal her away. She'd always return home and tell Selene about the monsters she'd fought that day, spinning together a story of courage and bravery for her little sister.
She felt that pain in her heart again as she thought of those times. Through the years, she'd stop going into the woods to play, and she'd instead find stories for Selene. Books of all sizes and shapes, no matter the content, because it made her feel close to her sister just as she had before her parents died. She thought of her family now, how she was all alone. Her parents had been gone for years, her grandmother, and now even Selene was missing somewhere. She needed to find her sister, she couldn't lose the last bit of her family.
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