A cool but still sunny day of the waning summer pleased with a clear sky and perfect calm. Until our house was shocked by the news of an unexpected and at the same time so long-awaited guest. Salvitta Thornton, who discovered me as a baby in the woods near her home and raised me as her own daughter, was seized by a real panic. Who would have thought that Sinar Renaldine Ess Holdon - Cloud's delord, chief adviser to the emperor, dragon of the Ice Mountains and rector of the Dragon Martial Academy would accept an invitation to dinner? Naturally, we all hoped and believed that Snezhalina, my sister, was...