THE START OF DRAGONIA BY MARIANNE MATHIASEN

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I was wondering where to go, when I saw a paperboy waving a roll of whispering leaves while he was shouting; "Read the latest news! Get Nidlongdir Post! Top story to day; Danagonia refuses to send her new collection of jewelry to Queen Agrafina!"

I approached the paperboy and asked him if I could have one of his newspapers. He pulled a leave from his roll of new papers and gave it to me. I knew from the whispering leaves that I didn't have to pay him. You can read about Leafenheim economy at: http://www.nidlongdir.dk/traveling/budget.html

As I was putting the newspaper into my ear, some one dotted me on the shoulder, I turned and much to my surprise it was my daughter Camilla. I couldn't quite believe that it acutely was her, she should be at the university having lessons as fare as I knew. What on earth are you doing here I whispered, I don't know why I whispered, but I had a feeling that I had to keep a low profile and not attract too much attention. She signaled to me to keep quiet and pulled me away from the street I followed her behind a red apple that had been turned into a building with blue windows and a pointy purple roof.

We went inside the apple building that turned out to be an Inn. Camilla pulled out a key and went up some stairs, and then she opened a round door with the key. The room looked like a worm hole in the apple, the walls where brown, and the smell was indescribable. There were two mushroom stools, and a small wooden table in the room. Camilla asked me to sit down, and I could see on the look of her face that she had some ting importuned to tell me.

Camilla was clearly nervous , she started with the usually, mom please don't get angry with me, that she always does when she has to confess that she has been doing one of her mischiefs. A mom has to hear many things before her ears will fall of, but what Camilla told me did worry me. She had been tired of attending the university, and had dropped out, because she wanted to become a jewellery designer, but she had no luck finding an apprenticeship, so she had asked Mama Kauppa for help. Mama Kauppa had told her to go to Dragonia and find the Jewellery caves and there she should look for The Amethyst Jewels cave. The owner of Amethyst Jewels had been looking for a new apprentice. Camilla had signed a contract with Amethyst Jewels, and she took a new name to make sure no one would tell me what she was up to. Camilla had decided on the name Danagonia. She hadn't been working in the Jewellery caves for very long, before Queen Agrafina heard that a new jewellery designer had been employed at the caves. There are no trading relations between Dragonia and Apple Hold Castle so the Queen had to use one of the underground trades to get some of her jewelleries.

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Queen Agrafina, ordered a Wire Wrapped Pendant from Danagonia/Camilla. But unfortunately, some new style had come in fashion while she was creating it, so she didn't want it any way. This behaviour made Danagonia very angry, so when the queen asked to have her new spring collection sent to Apple Hold Castle she refused to send it to her.

The Queen is not used to be disobeyed, so she sent orders to her Guard to arrest Danagonia, and put her to jail in the forgotten trunk, for not obeying the economic rules of Nidlongdir;

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