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A serene looking dragon by the name of MarbleSoda walks up to a raised public platform shared by all those in Wind and sits quietly. A tumble of hatchlings follow her and after several minutes of roughhousing, settle down and watch her. Once she knows she has their attention, she speaks calmly and loudly enough for everyone in the public area to hear if they wished. "In my life I have learned that to tell the best stories, one must listen. I have listened and I have learned many, many stories. Would you like to hear one?"

The Siblings that Chase the Sun and the Moon Long ago there was a fight between Light and Shadow flights. The fight was so destructive and vicious that the Sun and the Moon had stopped moving for a second to watch. As they watched they realized something. The lands of the Lightweaver were in perpetual daylight even as the Sun was not there with its beams and the Moon looked down upon its rubble and grass. The lands of the Shadowbinder were in perpetual darkness even as the Moon was not there with its blanket of night and the Sun gazed hard into its trees. At this the Sun thought aloud, "Why move when the flight of the Lightweaver brings warm unending light of day to their land and I cannot affect the land of the Shadowbinder?" The Moon heard the Sun and agreed, "Why move when the flight of the Shadowbinder brings cold unending darkness of night to their land and I cannot effect the land of the Lightweaver?" And so they stayed where they were in the sky. They did not think on what would happen to the rest of the world, their attention so occupied by the lands of the Sunbeam Ruins and the Tangled Woods who were so loud with their bloodshed. Dragons everywhere suffered greatly. The dragons of Wind were too hot to fly and could not run as their bamboo fields burned. The dragons of Ice overheated and became delirious as the land the stood on slowly melted away. The dragons of Water could not return to the surface as it had frozen over and many could not breathe. The dragons of Nature starved as the lack of sunlight caused all their food and homes to decay. Each flight desperately sent out messengers to the Sun and the Moon to convince them to move again, but their messengers could not be heard over the fighting. As all this was happening there were two orphaned mirrors, an older sister as dark as Moon's blanket of night who was born in the Tangled Wood and a younger brother the color of the Sun's own beams who was born in the Sunbeam Ruins. They had escaped the fighting, not yet ready to serve their gods, and ran to other lands. But no matter what land they found themselves in, there was no food for all of it had burned or decayed. They searched for days, becoming hungrier and hungrier until one day, the younger brother had collapsed. He was too weak to continue on and as his sister looked at him in despair she became furious. They were mirrors, the best hunters and they failed to get food. But this was not their fault. This was not the fault of the other flight’s foodless lands or even the fault of the fighting flights where they were born from. This was the fault of the Sun and the Moon, who had willingly stopped moving and ignored the pleas of the other suffering dragons. She roared in fury so loudly that it was heard across the lands, above the pleading of the messengers, and even above the fighting. The sound of it startled the Sun and the Moon and in confusion they ran. The sister flew up into the sky with what little strength she had left and, picking the closest one, chased after the Moon. The brother, seeing his sister chase the Moon, knew she needed help because she could not chase both. So he also gathered up what little strength he had and flew up to chase the Sun. They are the reason why the Sun and the Moon continue to move no matter what happens in the world. They are also why the Sun stays longer in the summer and why you sometimes see the Moon in the daytime. The brother is weaker and so during the summer, he gets tired so the Sun slows down to shine brighter and stronger while the sister chases with such a fury that she sometimes makes the Moon run so fast that its blanket of night trails too far behind it.

#Flight rising #story time