The story
Everyone at the castle said that Elric would never become a true knight: he skipped training, talked back to his teachers and preferred the dusty books in the old library to parades. One autumn afternoon, sitting on the low wall in the courtyard, he opened a forgotten book about a guardian dragon that could only be awakened by someone brave enough to defy the rules for a just cause. As he read, the wind lifted the leaves into a golden swirl, and the pages began to glow faintly. Elric smiled: perhaps he was not destined to become the knight everyone expected, but the one the legend needed.
