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'This is the Boiling Isles, a normal day here consists of temperatures of indescribable heat, thanks to the Boiling Sea, leaving is particularly difficult.
Witches have lives on the Isles for a long time, much longer than humans.
Humans only really started appearing a few hundred years ago, the relationship was rocky but humans brought with them new technology.
Witches began incorporating these new things into their old techniques, creating easier, safer and more reliable ways to…. Wait for it, tame dragons!
I know what you're thinking… Dragons? No way! But it's true and there's so much more to it than that!
Each dragon is represented in a Class system of dragons, my favourite is the Mystery class! I hope one day I can try to train my own dragon, Mom says she'll think about it, because it's pretty dangerous for humans, we can't enchant stuff like Witches can, so our gear is pretty much just for show against some of these dragons' fire breaths.
But I'm gonna study everything I can find about these runes and stuff and see if I can't find some way to make it work!
Wish me luck!
Luz'
Luz shuts her journal with a smile, looking up at the clock on her wall, it was almost 8am, soon her mom would wake her up and they'd go to the Dragon School, she had studies so many books on runes, their applications and magical effects, as well as hypothesising many new potential combinations, but… she had never managed to get any to work for her.
This was not due to a lack of trying, she was quite handy with tools and had made many, mamy, MANY different weapons, tools and shields bearing many of the runes she had learned, but no matter what she did, they just wouldn't activate for her, her mother even asked her Witch friend to test them out and it worked for them!
Luz had been devastated, at first, but this didn't stop her, she began researching Dragons themselves, learning the different classes, what they did, where the wild ones could be found and anything the witches had learned about them that her mom could get her hands on.
As the clock struck 8, Luz got up just as she heard footsteps coming to her door. As it opened, she hid all her doubts and worries behind an excited smile as her mother came in.
Camila didn't need to see the worry, or the doubts, because she herself felt both, she knew the harsh world of the Witches and Dragons was dangerous and Ill suited for a fragile human with no ability to utilise the runes that kept Witches safe but… she also knew her daughter.
Luz was smart, she had dedicated a lot of time to her passions and if anything she would make one talented blacksmith should everything fall through today.
But her Daughter was also dead set on this path, it would probably crush her to be rejected, but she held out hope, despite all her motherly urges to just convince her daughter to not go through with this idea, she knew if she did that, Luz would surely just sneak away and do it on her own.
At least if she supported her, Luz could confide in her, she wouldn't need to hide anything away from Camila, wouldn't get into dangerous situations due to inexperience.
No, if Luz was going to do this, Camila was going to be sure her daughter was safe!
"Mija, are you ready? Es hora de ir" (It's time to go)
Luz beams at her Mom and nods, grabbing her satchel and slinging it over her shoulder.
"Si Mami!" (Yes Mom)
Luz takes one last look at herself in the mirror to be sure she looked okay.
Camila can see Luz's look of worry just a little through the reflection of the mirror.
"¡Vamos Mija, vamos!"
Luz jumps and quickly turns to her mom and begins moving after her, not quite sure why they were hurrying but doing so anyway because her mom was.
Camila knew a good distraction was a fast one, the sooner they got to the Dragon School the better.