The Art of Fate

{For Brian Kesinger's Visual Story Telling Challenge}

In ancient times, there stood a land. Villages and towns scattered in between large forests and huge mountains, sitting along the riverside for fresh water. In one village, lived a young girl named Zu. She had a gift, the gift of imagination. She could draw beautiful, full portraits of people she had never met.. But in these times, women were not allowed to draw, be creative or do anything that strayed away from making the men's lives easier.But, Zu was different. Exiled from her village for not following rules, she finds out her gift is more than what it seems. The people she draws are actual people, seen in visions she has. Her fate is to help the people she draws, a fate her late mother had started to live but failed to complete. Along side her guardian dragon sent by the ancients, Zu sets out on a journey to find each individual and help them in any means necessary. Not just for herself or to please the ancients, but in memory of her mother.