Wyvern's Gold

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Dragons are a myth. Heroes are a reality.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Six hundred years ago humans retreated underground. Our Elders said our sins were why. Ever since the battle between Heaven and Hell has raged on Earth's surface. Only becoming truly righteous can save us.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It was a lie.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Stories of dragons willing to devour us and wild men who will torture us keep the population in line. For twenty years all I'd heard was how the surface was filled with horrors - that's why our hunters always return wounded. God does not consider us ready yet.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It. Was. A. Lie!</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>They've beaten me down until the only option left is death. Sacrificed to the dragons I expect monsters from legends. Instead I learn the truth. Dragons are people. Massive strange dangerous people.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My only hope is to push aside everything I've been taught and learn to embrace who I really am. A daughter. A woman. Not just a healer but also a warrior! I was chained out to die but I will survive. One way or another I will find a way to stop </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>all</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> the lies.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because monsters are real. They just aren't the ones I expected.</span></p><p></p>