Briana crawled a few more feet then rested again. Day by day she was 
getting weaker. It had been almost a week since her fathers death & the 
food & water had run out 3 days ago. She decided to risk standing up to 
see what was around her. It took all her strength but she managed to pull 
herself up & look around. She brushed her long red hair from her eyes. 
She sighed, wastelands all around....no wait, was that a clearing of some 
sort? She didn't want to get her hopes up but there looked to be a grassy 
clearing in the distance.

Her legs gave out underneath her & as she rested before resuming her 
journey she contemplated how she had ended up in this predicament. Her 
father, an acrobat, had become tired of town life....he had always been a 
dreamer & about a month ago he decided he wanted to be a dragonrider. 
Well, the townfolk laughed at him as they knew he was too old to be 
joined to a dragon.He became stubborn as they began to ridicule him & one 
day he came to Briana & told her his idea. He wanted to go out into the 
wastelands & try to bond with a wild dragon! Briana tried to dissuade 
him, as he was her only parent....her mother having died giving birth to
her, she didn't want to lose him. He would not listen to her & made 
arrangements to leave the next morning.

Briana sighed as her memories brought her this far, & she began to work 
her way towards what appeared to be a clearing in the distance. Again her 
thoughts drifted back in time.

Briana was torn as her father left, she thought maybe if I follow I can 
help. So she set out after him, attempting to stay out of sight. They 
traveled for days & soon were far out into the wastelands. Finally Briana 
was so low on food & water she had to make herself known to her father. 
He was angry at first but then glad of the company. They set out again. 
The next day her father excitedly called out "look!" & pointed to the 
sky. Above was the shadow of a dragon. Her father turned to her & said 
"this is it, this is my chance. Go hide out in those rocks & do not 
interfere, no matter what!" "But father" Briana began, her father 
interrupted "Theres no time! Go now!" Briana obeyed.

As her father waited out in the open he called to the dragon "Come, come 
to me....you are mine, mine to be forever with" The dragon slowed in his 
flight & then dove for Briana's father. He landed near him as though in a 
trance. Briana held her breath "could it be? Could her father have been 
right?" The dragon approached her father & then shaking his head, roared 
out his anger & opened his mouth & grabbed Briana's father....he was gone 
in a matter of seconds. Briana tried to hang onto consciousness but then 
fainted.

As briana remembered back to when she awoke, she brushed a few tears from 
her crystal clear blue eyes. She would always remember her father as a 
brave dreamer & she would try to carry on his memory, she was going to 
try & fulfill his destiny & beacome a dragonrider. Thats why she was 
working her way across the wastelands to where she thought the nearest 
Warren was.

She refused to give up. Lord she was tired, but wait...it was less rocky 
here under her hands, it was grass. She was on the edge of a grassy 
meadow! As she realized her good fortune all of a sudden a shadow passed 
overhead. As she looked up she saw a cloud of smoke & dragons, different 
colors....as she tried to sort out what was happening the stress of it 
all combined with her dehydration suddenly made things swim in front of 
her eyes & her last sight before she blacked out again was a dragon 
heading straight for her.

NRPG: well all.....here it is, my introduction. Hope its acceptable.

To  whoever the rider is at the rescue who is going to spot me & rescue 
me: Briana is a small girl, barely 4'11" & weighs about 85 pounds. She 
has long wavy fiery red hair & beautiful crystal clear blue eyes. Her 
leathers are ragged from her journey thru the wastelands & she looks very 
worn & dehydrated.