Jaktion

PROLOGUE

"Piper"

Piper.

It was a small village - smaller than Sandover on the opposite side of Sentinel Beach with it's big windmills and crops. Unlike Sandover, Piper used hardly any blue eco to power their homes and over three quarters the village lit their homes with candles. Only a few homes, such as the butcher, and the scholar's house up next to the rocky walls had access to the eco gained from the nearby jungle. Piper was a fishing community - every boy wanted to grow up to be a fisherman like his father. Nothing stopped the fisherman of Piper from fishing in Sentinel Bay, not even the ferocious lurker sharks that began frequenting the waters around the coast. The fisherman of Piper were famed to be the only aelfs on the continent fierce enough to face the notorious lurker sharks.

This legend was only partially true. There was one young, adventurous fisherwoman who - though she quickly denied it at every opportunity - was definetely afraid of those sharks. Few say it was because she was a girl, but they were immediately shut up by the other female fishers. Others say that it was because she was not born a fisherman, but born to a butcher. Truth be told, whether she was born to a butcher or fisher, the girl would never be either at heart. She didn't want to be Butcher's daughter, or some future fisherman's wife. This girl wanted to see the wonders of the world, learn the mysteries of the past and most of all - never ever have to fish again.

At this very moment, this one certain fishing girl had neglected to show up to her post.