<div class="floatright">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/f/fb/13aad86f75dd5d68_1_2.jpg)</div><br/><div align="center"><em><strong>~Anishal, dreaming or awake?~</strong></em></div><br/>The skies were glorious. The moon, so large and bright, caused her scales to gleam in it's cold light. The beat of her massive wings were silent up here in the starlit heavens. And Anishal was at peace. To fly was to let everything go. To let all the memories, both of happiness and of blood , slip away. To fly was to be free...<br/><br/>…. she had been 'free' for so long now time had ceased to exist. Stone surrounded her, confined her. Chains laced with magic sigils wrapped tight around her four ankles as well as her thick neck. She had fallen to such deep depths of her own mind it would take something extraordinary to bring her back. And it seemed just such a thing was occurring. It was not the Guardians and their extra movement that caused her to gather in a deep breath, that one breath that happened when wakefulness took hold. It was the shifting of the mountain stone beneath her. That small movement of the earth that brought the skies in her mind to waft away into so much inky blackness. It was the waking of one of her ilk, one she knew to be trapped here with her that brought Anishal from her Deep Sleep.<br/><br/>Slowly, oh so slowly limpid pools of blazing mercury eased open, lighting up her prison in an icy silver luminescence. Nothing had changed. Still she was a captive. Still the magic links held her tight. Still...still...<br/><br/>But indeed, something was amiss. She could sense the others surrounding her coming to wake as well.  Her triangular head would slowly raise up as much as the chain confining her would allow, a low deep rumble flowing from within her chest. Anger, rage, all that encompassed that emotion wove through her being. The peace she had known in her dreams was gone, and she knew, deep down she knew she wouldn't be getting it back. Claws tore furrows into the stone beneath her giant body. Teeth gnashed at the very air of her cavern.<br/><br/>Something was happening, and someone would pay. All she needed was to be free of these chains...<br/><br/><br/>