Nira Algonala Island Present Day “Come on, say it,” ordered Aros, making me roll my eyes so hard that it was a mystery how I hadn’t lost them somewhere up there. I walked faster, trying to reach the others that were already nearing the library. It was a hot morning and the sun had been shining hard in the sky for a while now. Algonala had looked gloomy and foggy in the distance but once you passed the heavy fog clogging the island you realized it was always sunny in there. Teran liked the island...Aros’s pestering not so much. Tell him what he wants so he leaves us alone… I snorted at that. “You don’t get it,” I explained to the dragon talking in my head, “he won’t ever leave us alone. Not ever.” A couple of street vendors looked at me with surprised faces, they

