One Brief Eternity

On a tiny globe near the edge of her galaxy Anaxiunara seeks a place to bear her young; an island group far from occupied land. She nestles there and sleeps awhile until her babies mature.Two hundred years later the mother of dragons awakes to find her island nest overrun by humans. One of her offspring has befriended a child of this race. Anaxiunara teaches the girl to wield powerful magic. But when the Great Dragon meets the girl's father (Capt. Jo Lee Validad) she discovers a magic she's never known.Jo Lee struggles to protect his family and his island home from tyrant wizards. Anaxiunara takes human form to study these curious beings, but vows not to interfere. With this strange new magic compelling her to help the man she questions her vow.The Great One does not know the power of this strange human magic. And, if it can be said that a dragon has a weakness it would be curiosity. She must learn what it is to be human. She must know this magic called loved. About the authorStorytelling has always been among my favorite pastimes. Movies, Stage plays, songs and fairytales; I love 'em all. To be wrapped in the pages of a fantasy adventure is inarguably among the greatest mind trips one can take, and all that's needed is a good book and a light to read by.Fiction has a special attraction as the mind sees and feels and lives with the characters through all of their passions and exploits. How can one truly ride on the wings of a dragon except in a fairytale? How better to travel through space and time than in the comfort of an overstuffed chair?Fantasy, of course, is my personal favorite. The only things that are real are the only things that really matter; how people think, how we feel, how we cope when life spirals out of our control. We have heroes to inspire, villains to hate, and breathtaking scenes that can only be imagined.It isn't the stories so much as the characters that involve me. By learning about them I might learn something of myself. That's what great storytelling really is; exploring foreign ideas and strange beliefs in the safety of familiar surroundings. And, the best stories will force us to think. That's a good thing when so often reality discourages it. A dragon does not experience time in the same way as other beings. An adult dragon can witness the birth and passing of a world with the same infinite patience as with the birth and passing of a quark. A dragon measures time and age by gathered experience and knowledge gained. In this Anaxiunara is great among beings.She comes to a world to bare her eggs and raise her brood. She discovers a species alien to her and possessed of a powerful and frightening magic she has never known. For, except in the time of raising her brood, a dragon's life is a solitary existence.These fragile little human beings, with their passions and the powers that bond them to their world and each other, know a thing unknown to her. It is a curious thing, and if it can be said that a dragon has a weakness it would be curiosity. Anaxiunara takes human form so to learn this thing, this powerful magic the humans call Love.In book 1 Captain Jo Lee's wife is murdered by wizards. The young woman he asks to help nanny his kids is, in fact, ancient beyond reckoning and a powerful mage.Book 2 begins the civil war for the freedom of commoners, folks without magic.