The Speaker - Aly

My story thread!

So The Speaker grew from an idea I had last NaNoWriMo. A community of dragons lives in close proximity to the human country of Torin. They claim the sea cliffs as their own and subsist on fish for the most part. Once a year, the Shahn (human leader) travels to the meeting place and reaffirms the Treaty with the representatives of the dragons. This is done through the use of Speakers, who are the individuals of each species that communicate mind to mind. The weakest can merely understand the other, the strongest (of whom the dragon Speaker is one) can actually take control of the other and speak with the other's voice.

Maiya is the acting human Court Speaker, as her father was too ill to make the journey. At this particular meeting, the dragons reveal they have killed humans caught killing one of their own. And now there is a possibility of the resurgence of the bloody conflict that brought about the necessity of the Treaty in the first place. There's also hints of a black market for dragon parts. I also intend to follow one of the dragons, the mate of the one killed.

So Maiya will be involved in trying to prevent this conflict, but I haven't really gotten too far into the weeds yet. I'm also still fleshing out the world and its history beyond vague descriptions of war and strife between the two species.