Chapter 1: The Shadow in the Sky The Shadow in the Sky
There is a shadow in the sky.

At first glance, it looks like a dark cloud, but no. It is a long shadow of something approaching.

Of something from beyond the sky.

Of something that is coming.

The shadow is there, day and night, and it is growing and spreading. The stars that watch it shudder, for they know that now there is no stopping it.

High in the sky there is a hidden den. Made of bone and ice, it twists and turns, and should not stay afloat, but it is crackling with magic. With power.

A swirling cloud of dust and fumes protects the maze. Poison permeates the air, and every breath you take leaves you more dazed. The closer you get to the center, the colder it becomes. The coldness, and the confusion, is inescapable.

And what lies in the center…? What is waiting for you in the maze…?

Horrors await. Horrors that will strike such fear into your heart that you will find yourself petrified. And you will join others like yourself. Frozen and floating and trapped. Unable to leave the maze, until the Devourer arrives—but by then, all will be lost.

But even in horror, there is hope.

Among the trapped in the maze are a young man and his dragon, both stripped of power and of movement, but still living, still aware. And they stare not at the rapidly growing shadow in the sky, but at the last thing they saw before the fear took over. They stare at the distant ground below. At a new land, one shaped like a dragon’s claw, left empty but for four children and their dragons. The only ones who can save them all.

They are the only hope for those trapped in this hidden den in the sky.

But the shadow is growing, the cold is spreading, and time is running out.

The Devourer is coming.