Zipe's Lair
You have entered a dark cave. Steam rises from the vents along the floor. There is a low rumbling sound and you pause uneasily. You have the disturbing feeling you are being watched, yet you continue down farther into the cave. Suddenly the walls widen. Little purple flames rise magically from the floor along the cavern walls. Startled, you glance around you.
You have entered a huge cavern. The first thing you notice are the walls. They are cut of pure gems and crystals. Dazzling sapphires, rubies, emeralds, and diamonds glitter in the amethyst light. Even the walls you walked under in the hallway are not plane rock, you realize, but silver dotted with shining gems. What the seven dwarves wouldn't give to mine this place, you think to yourself.
Then your gaze travels to the center of the cavern, where you see a perfect, crystaline pool of water. And beside that pool...you take a step backwards in alarm. For a great dragon lies before you, watching you with eyes like the emeralds in the wall.
Hello Magician, she speaks in your mind. Welcome to my lair. Please don't be afraid, I couldn't eat you if I wanted to. Only full-grown dragons can eat magicians, and I'm only a child.
You wonder how big full grown dragons are, if this is only a child, and conclude to yourself that you'd rather prefer not to meet one.
She smiles at your thought and continues, my name is Zipe. Being a purple dragon, I can breathe purple fire, hence the flames along the walls. Don't worry, their only purpose right now is lighting. Although I'm young, I'm also one of the main guardians of the Realm of Beyond. If you'd like to visit it I'm required to weave a spell about you that will protect you from hostile magic, but stifle any spells you try to cast as well. You understand this is a precautionary measure, to protect the Realm and the beings who reside here. Oh, and if your scared of dragons and don't wish to see a full grown one, you should probably leave now. Although most of the dragons who live here wouldn't bother you, I can't promise that for all of them. If you've already been around the Realm then I guess you know, and Alaisha would have already woven the Spell.
You'd probably be best of to leave now, any mortal who stays to long in this cavern slowly becomes irrisitibally attracted to the water, which is Shechssen, the drink of dragons. It beings instant death to any mortal who tastes it.
Already you think you can feel the deadly pull of the magic water. You decide leaving would probably be a wise decision. "Farewell Zipe!" you call, and walk out of the jeweled caveren and back through the shimmering hallway.
