Monday, October 21, 2019

the brightest night: part one

Twenty years ago Oasis images she hears scavengers stealing her treasure. She races off towards her treasure rooms, running into Blaze and Blister. Oasis reflects on her daughters. Blister unsettles Oasis - she knows that this is the dragon who will kill her. Burn, the oldest, is bigger and stronger but Oasis actually gets along with her. Blaze is ditzy - an acceptable daughter but not a future queen. She tells her daughters she is just going to check on the treasure and leaves them. Blaze goes to bed but Blister follows her. Oasis is annoyed by this but decides to let her tag along. At the treasure room Oasis discovers some treasure missing - along with the Eye of Onyx. This news gets a reaction out of Blister but Oasis doesn't understand why. She tells Blister to go wake Burn so they can deal with the scavengers together. Blister asks why she cannot help her mother and Oasis cruelly dismisses her. Oasis follows the scavengers, wondering if Blister will really get Burn. She worries that there might be too many scavengers to handle on her own. She finds them and is relieved it is only three. She moves in to attack.

A panicked Sunny races away from Morrowseer. She leaves the tunnel and finds herself in the RainWing kingdom. Glory and Grandeur are speaking to the dragons, but all Sunny can think of is the prophecy and how it is all a lie. All her life she believed she was destined to fulfill this prophecy, and now it has been taken away from her. She feels Morrowseer must be lying - that is the only thing that makes sense - but she worries her friends will not believe her. As Sunny debates what to do there is a disturbance as some of the RainWings recognize Mastermind. As Glory debates what to do Clay and Fatespeaker burst through the tunnel with a badly wounded Starflight. Sunny moves towards her wounded friend but she is grabbed and taken into the rainforest.

Sunny is unable to break free so she waits to see what happens. When the dragons get far enough away from the tunnel they stop and discuss their options for holding Sunny hostage to get Fierceteeth made queen. They decide to use the obsidian mirror, which allows you to spy on dragons, to find out what is going on back in the RainWing kingdom. Only they discover that the prophecy is a fake. Suddenly they have a new plan, one that involves selling Sunny to one of the SandWing queens. As they argue over their plan Sunny sees an opportunity to escape and takes it.

The dragons chase after Sunny but she knows the rainforest better then them so she is able to elude capture. She listens to them give up and decide instead to sell the dragonet location to the queens. Sunny debates what to do - follow them or go back and get her friends. She decides her friends won't listen to her anyway and resolves to follow the dragons.

Sunny decides to steal the obsidian mirror away from the dragons. That night as they sleep she succeeds and leaves a message for them, warning them to go back. She then uses the mirror to check on Starflight then spy on Burn. But her spying on Burn is interrupted when the dragons wake up and arguing breaks out over the missing mirror and the message. But Fierceteeth insists they go on so Sunny follows them.

Okay, first of all, I bet anything Blister fid not go and wake Burn. I bet she instead followed her mother either to make sure the scavengers killed her or to do the job herself while pinning it on the scavengers. But what is so special about the Eye of Onyx that Blister would be unsettled over the scavengers taking it? Is this why Morrowseer had her looking through scavenger dens? Wait a minute... Or, did Blister herself steal the Eye of Onyx and she was unsettled because she knew when her mother found the scavengers the Eye of Onyx would not be there? While the theft of it would not point immediately to Blister it would cause problems - problems that Blister would not want which is why she would have to kill her mother. Just what is the Eye of Onyx anyway...?

And good on Sunny for striking out on her own. However I don't see how she is going to solve the prophecy problem when all three sisters are awful, not without becoming queen herself.

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