Alai

And what - or who - is the cause of so much misfortune, so much pain and unrest?

Alai. A lie born beneath a silvery moon and nurtured by the eternal struggle of twin gods. So easy for the clan to believe that Plague was responsible for this.

She saw a dragon who felt beaten down, always ignored, second-best, and she whispered to him of possibilities. She followed him home to his clan, always staying just out of sight. His emerald gaze was met a thousand times by her penetrating violet one until he felt incomplete without her, but did not know she even existed.

She would never ask him to kill, but to usurp? Oh, yes.


Finally caught by the investigations of Bdelygma and Oberon, Alai is now paying a hefty price for her crimes. Alai is contained in the Atrix, a gigantic scavenged hourglass in Blackberry's workshop. To try and earn her freedom, she's been telling the Fernpath Clan what she knows of Shadow Flight's secrets. Older than most of the dragons keeping her, she knows much and shares it slowly. But how much of it is truth? And can the Keeper of the Atrix keep her wits about her, or will she too be seduced by Shadow?