I opened my eyes. It was already light outside and I could see my room clearly, even though my curtains were closed. 'Selection day.' I thought by myself.

Selection day is de day of the first full moon, after a dragon shard was discovered. The shard is a little gemstone with a dragon spirit inside. On selection day al the 16 year olds in a section, come to their sacred temple. For the forest section, my section, it was the Infinity Tree. There the elders would perform a ritual, which would reincarnate the dragon. The dragon would choose its master. Then the master and the dragon got sent off to the crystal, the palace of the queen, to be trained there as a Dragon Warrior.

I walked downstairs and looked around the room. This would possibly be my last time in this house. I shook my head, no I wouldn't go, at least I shouldn't count on it. I looked in the mirror and sighed. I looked similar to almost everyone in the forest section. Gold brown hair and pointy ears. I had seen few drawings of people who looked different, but they all were from people from another section. How would it be outside our section? It laid deep in the forest. Our village was literally build in the old trees. I knew there was more then the forest, but going to the Infinity Tree would be the closest I would ever come to the wall. The wall separated the sections. It was a days walk to the oldest tree in the forest. Maybe some day I would have the courage to go past that point.

When I finished my breakfast I went outside. Silvia was already waiting for me. She wasn't exactly pretty, but she was at least the nicest person in our little town. She was the daughter of the baker, so she had enough to eat. A lot of children had bullied her for being fat. I stood up for her, when she thought she had no one, though things weren't going good at home.

I lived with my little sister, brother and father my mother died a long time ago, but how she died was still a mystery to everyone . My family was nice, but they dindn't really get me. They always said I was strange. At least we could work together as a family.

"Hey freaks." a familiar voice said. 'Clara.' I thought as I turned around. I rolled my eyes.

"What do you want?" I sighed. Clara was rich and spoiled, and for some reason she hated me.

"Oh, there's just this question burning on my tongue." she said. 'Here it comes,' I thought. When Clara started like that, she was going to brag about something. "Are you poor folks planning on sleeping in the forest on your way to the Infinity Tree? I, for one, am getting there by boat. It's very dangerous, unless of course, you can afford to hire professionals. Like I can." 

We weren't poor, at least not poor enough to have to hunt in the forest. I froze by the memory of the forest. No, we had to be at the tree before dawn. In two days the ceremony would start, and I wouldn't let the forest get to me ever again.

When I turned around to walk away Clara laughs and said "Oh yes, Laila, I forgot you freaked out in the forest!" I didn't want to reply so I just walked away, and I was glad Clara coudn't see the tear rolling down my cheek.

(Time skip)

We had been walking for hours in silence. 

"You okay?" Silvia asked.

"I'm fine." I growled. 

Silvia shook her head. "It was mean of Clara to bring up the thing about the forest. It's been a long time since... And I'm sure-"

"Stop it okay!" I screamed at her. "There is something there, I saw it with my own two eyes! I'm not crazy!"

I walked away, leaving Silvia there with a hurt look on her face. I kept repeating those last words. "I'm not crazy."

I know wat I saw even if it was impossible. But no one believed me. Maybe I was crazy...

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This was kinda short, and I'm not the kind of writer that knows how to write long chapters. I have these ideas for a story, I start, and I quit. (Even though my sister thinks my stories are great) I know how the story will end, but it's hard to write the beginning and the middle.

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