Trial By Forest
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Last published Sun, Sep 28, 2025
Every child of the Ryoma Clan is sent into the heart of the Nevan Forest on their twentieth birthday, where they must remain for a month. Sometime in that month, the child will shift into their dragon form for the very first time. Only once the month is complete can the child come back to the Ryoma Clan and partake in the unification ceremony.
Victoria Dresden has only heard of dragons in the outlandish bedtime stories her parents used to tell her every night before she went to sleep. Only in her dreams has she imagined herself near such large and scaly, winged creatures.
Called to the forest, Victoria soon stumbles into her dreams.. or would they become nightmares?
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