Day 163: hello there again… I am writing to you because I noticed I never actually shared how I got out of this great sky Fortress of the Mandala Floating Islands. Honestly, it’s a great story. It just takes a long time to get off of it.

So just to back up a bit… I am from Ankara. It’s a nice little continent that has a smaller continent that that’s called Forlorn. But I’m from the bigger one. (Ha, that’s what she said) Anyway, I lived in the capital called Ancold. It was a nice little place and not a lot of people would believe it was a capital. But it was home.

So a couple decades ago there is this great war against humans and the dragon species. You see the dragon species lived in the floating islands of Mandala where they should’ve been safe. But us humans, well not me because I’m a dragon soul (it’s a mix of dragon and human) we decided to go up there. The war lasted many days and nights. It was a great loss on both sides. As a memorial for the humans that died, we have a place called the Three Spires. And for the dragons it’s called the Field of Fallen Swords.

So about half a year ago I was hanging out with my group of friends in the Field of Fallen Swords. One thing you have to know about dragon souls is they can come out two ways. One as they have the appearance of a dragon, but that’s it no fire no magic powers nothing like that. Or they could come out looking human , but they have the dragon attributes. I’m the one that looks human but has the attributes.

What I didn’t know is the dragons were rounding up the dragon souls and taking them to the sky fortress in Mandala. I was captured and taken there and put in a cell. So now it’s been 163 days since then and I just got a letter from my friends that they have figured out my escape. I’ve also made some new friends here. There’s a dragon soul who has dark black wings, and twisty curly horns, whose name is Jet. Also a dragon soul like me whose name is Kiki.

So as I was sitting in my cell, I heard the buzz of the electric door open. A gruff voice called out to me saying “you got a visitor”

I smiled and looked at my cell mates and said “OK guys say goodbye. We’re leaving this place.”

At that moment, all the lights turned off I know exactly who that was, gears, our hacker. The guard took a hold of my arm and pushed me down the hallway. “Nolan let go. I can walk by myself.” I yelled at the “guard” who was my best friend Nolan.

“Oh sorry, dude didn’t mean to.”

We managed to get outside as the guards were panicky trying to figure out what happened. The next step though was getting to the ground. Most of the time you can go to the air station and go down there but because of the stupid census thing we do every year, they have our fingerprints and now that I’m a wanted criminal, along with Kiki and Jet, we will be locked up again.

“OK guys,” I said as I turned to the group, “here’s a little exercise I like to call freestyle trust fall.” I open my arms exaggeratedly and fell backwards, completely freestyling towards the Earth. I turned my head around to see everyone else and notice that a dragon has has followed us. Except I knew exactly which one that was. Her name is Feverfew and she has been a great help in getting me out of here and keeping me updated on my escape.

I never noticed how free a person could feel until this moment, but knowing I would be on the run for the rest of my life, scared me, but honestly bring it on suckers.