Altair is a young Sun Warrior apprentice. Well, he won't be an apprentice for much longer anyway. He's trained to be a Swordfighter, or maybe an Assassin. But when he's chosen to be a Dragonslayer, Altair is beyond excited. Then after a while, after he's forced to kill a small, helpless dragonkit, he learns that being the Tribe's Dragonslayer isn't as great an honor as he thinks it to be.