wings of fire · fantasy · dragons · ensemble cast · magic · war · survival · prophecy · academy setting · found family
The sky hangs above, a vast and pitiless blue, its silence shredded by the screams of a blood-hungry crowd. You are chained to a stone pillar, the iron manacles biting deep into the membrane of your folded wings, holding you in a crippling embrace. A cutting wind whips past, carrying the mineral scent of dust and the copper-taint of spilled blood from the arena sands far below. You watch as a hulking IceWing delivers a final, crushing blow to a SeaWing; the wet impact echoes up to your prison. Nearby, a broad-shouldered MudWing dragonet—Clay—shifts, his face etched with helpless dread. A RainWing perches on a marble outcropping near Queen Scarlet's throne, her colors muted. A NightWing rattles the bars of a cage one level down. A restless SeaWing is shackled a few pillars away. Then y…