Dreams Both Real and Strange I and II
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Part I
Prologue
The Recollections of Todd Burns – Anno Draconis 03-20-0018
The last day humans ruled the earth was normal enough, at first, with terrorists blasting any location harboring sentient life. But the normalcy ended when Colonel Rakabmu Fiagadd bombed a rival terrorist camp in Assam in the North-Eastern region of the Himalayan Mountains.
If the idiot were alive today, I’d gladly beat the stupidity out of him. As it so happened, the Himalayas housed something beyond all comprehension – a dragon. That a terrifying monster out of legend had just appeared did not stop Colonel Fiagadd and his military from blasting the creature during its flight. There’s a reason all the well-known fairy tales warned about angry, fire-breathing dragons. If only the tales had mentioned that bombs had nothing on a reptile huge enough to swallow a car for dinner. The warning might have made a difference to Fiagadd and his men. Probably not though; idiots will be idiots and he and all his men are now very dead.
During its enraged flight, the dragon sang its Call. Survivors who heard the Call described it as the loveliest, eeriest thing they’d ever heard in their lives. The Call lulled humans, and anything else other than dragons, into a trance. Many unfortunate victims of the trance that day became dragon snacks.
The day the dragon took to the skies was later known as the day the calendars moved to Anno Draconis: Year of the Dragon. The very day I was born, 03-20-0000, the dragon’s Call woke all of dragonkind slumbering underground on the entire planet.
As I said, it was a very large dragon.