"It is not what I had wanted when I first started watching over you, but yes, you would be able to take my place," and after answering, the Monacle could no longer look into Dree's eyes and lowered his head. Again Arnie tried to jump into the conversation but before she could, Meerher took the Finder by the hand and whispered into her ear. "Arnie, I know you are trying to help Dree, but this is something he must decide for himself. All of the Realms depend upon his choice for he is the only one we have found who can save the magic of the Tree." As Arnie pulled her hand away from the Moonie House Mother, she looked again towards Dree and saw that she was too late. He had made up his mind already.
"Dree," said the Monacle, "I have not much time left here, but I will be with you in your journey. Come to me and place your forehead to mine." As Dree approached and their heads touched, he could feel a flow of magic unlike anything he had ever experienced before. Within seconds it was complete but in those seconds, Dree saw everything that the old Dragon had experienced in it's time. He watched the first meeting the Dragon had with the Tree, the decision, the making of the Oracle, and even this moment of the transfer from another perspective. The old Dragon had given his knowledge to Dree! It would be much later before he would learn that more than knowledge was given that day when Dree asked himself a hypothetical question and another familiar voice answered it...
"The branches are leafing again!" It was true, the places that the branches had looked bare were starting to grow leaves and the rest of the Tree was started to glow a pale green. The Tree was stronger! Dree had become the new Monacle of the Tree. It may have been a trick of the light coming from the renewed Tree, but as Arnie looked again at Dree, it appeared that he also had grown. His face had changed from being a youthful Dragon to one that looked like it had seen more events than its young years. Sadly, Arnie thought that this was the last time she would see her friend. Dree had noticed Arnie's expression but already had decided on a plan that this would not happen. He was not ready to give up on his friends nor forget them. Calling the two Moonies to his side, Dree took command. "Ladies. As the new Monacle of the Tree, I make you my personal emissaries. House Mother Meerher, I would like you to stay and discuss with me some of the duties of the Monacle and how the Moonies and I will continue to defend the magic and keep the balance. E'luminosity, you will guide my friend back to the Realm of Wymsy and show her how to return to here when she needs to. Your duties will now include being my personal messenger so return when you have completed this task." Dree then looked directly at his friend, Arnie the Finder. "Arnie, I need you to do something for me if you will. We have unfinished business with the Troll King and I made a promise to help him. Will you complete this task for me?" Arnie had forgotten all about the visit to the Troll King and their promise to help him find his greatest desire. Keeping the tears out of her eyes, Arnie promised that she would. "You won't have to do this alone. Let Drat know of my request and also you will meet another who will aid you. I am giving you this to help in the quest," Dree told her as he passed her the Oracle. "Oracle, you are to help Arnie and her friends until such time as you return to me. Is that understood?" "Master? Are we to be separated again?" asked the Oracle so that only Dree heard the question. The new Monacle smiled. "No, you will be able to talk to me no matter where you are located this time so that you can tell me what is happening in your adventures." With that answer, the Oracle again felt something it could not define but liked how it felt. "We will be together again," it told itself.
Soon it was time for Arnie to return to the Realm and tell the others what Dree had done, but before leaving, she gave the new Monacle and her friend a long hug with a promise to return every time that she could. As she was leaving, Dree started to laugh. "Wait Arnie. Before you go, I just heard a new joke that I want you to tell Drat when you see him..."
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Dree hung his head in sadness as he realized that he was going to lose someone that he was already considering as 'family'. Using his Dragon speak, Dree asked the Monacle something so the others could not hear, "Is there anything I can do to help you? I don't want to leave you now." "My regret is that when I fade, the Tree will perish and then magic will disappear across the realms. I hate to think that I failed in keeping the magic alive," answered the Monacle. As Dree and the ancient Moon Dragon were Dragon speaking to each other, Arnie noticed in the silence that Dree was looking like when he would talk to the Oracle when no one else could hear it speak. "He must be wanting some privacy," she realized as she decided to give him that privacy. "Meerher. Can you and Ellie show me more of the Tree? I would like to see the other side." The Monacle smiled again as Arnie led the Moonies away from him and Dree. "You are fortunate to have such good friends," he told Dree as they watched the others starting their long walk around the Tree. "It will take them a little while to go around the tree and I am sure Arnie will ask them all sorts of questions to keep them busy." Dree had been contemplating what the Monacle had said about magic disappearing and realized that was what had called him in the first place. "You said that once you fade, the Tree will die and magic will disappear. That is why you stayed. To save the magic. Would the realms be worse off if the magic disappeared?" The Monacle suddenly looked very sad. "Yes, that is why I came. At first I thought I would be able to fix everything and the magic would stay. But it was vain and foolish of me. The Tree is the real magic. It's roots spread to each of the realms and the magic flows from it. If magic dies, Dragons become only lizards. Wishes remain only desires and hopes. Many of the magical creatures that you know will no longer exist or will become mundane. Sameness will become the norm and being different will make others jealous or feel superior. Things would survive, but hope and dreams will not be as powerful as they can be."
This was the question he had both hoped Dree would ask but knew he could never ask of it himself. "I am sorry Dree, but there is only one way for it to not happen. A new Moon Dragon must be found to replace me. Only a Moon Dragon has the power and ability to maintain the Tree." As the shock of what the Monacle was saying sank into Dree, the Monacle continued. "I did not ask the Moonies to bring you here. I knew where you were from watching you since you were a wee dragnet. What you had become may have been the magic setting things in motion but I did not tell the Moonies because I knew they would try and convince you to take my place." As Dree stared at the Monacle, he realized that a decision must be made. "Again you remind me that you can only start the path, it is my decision where to tread. Do I stay or do I go are the real choices I have aren't they?" The Monacle sadly swallowed the lump that had formed in his throat as he nodded his head. "How long do I have to decide?" asked Dree. With a tear in it's eye the Monacle answered. "We will not meet again in this form." It was then that Arnie and the others appeared from their journey around the tree. "Dree, the Tree is huge but it doesn't look well. Its like it needs a good trimming," said Arnie. It was with those words that Dree made his offer. "Monacle, would I be able to take your place?"
As Dree approached the other Dragon, he realized that he would have to be the one to start this conversation as this majestic Dragon appeared to be sleeping with it's great tail wrapped around the base of the Tree. "Greetings Clansman. May we have a moment of your time?" he asked. A smile appeared on the large Moon Dragon, and slowly he opened his eyes and stared at each of his visitors one by one as he answered. "Welcome Drai’ochtluan, or may I call you Dree? And it is always nice to see you too, House Mother Meerher. I see that you have a new Moonie with you too. E'luminosity isn't it? I have never met a Borrower turned Finder before Arnie, but I can see that your new profession suites you well. I have been waiting for your arrivals and would enjoy this opportunity to meet all of you for we have much to discuss and decisions to be made." After the initial shock of hearing her name, Arnie then realized that she never saw the Monacle speak but she knew that she had heard him plainly! It was then that the ancient Moon Dragon laughed. This time she saw him talking. "I am sorry Arnie, it has been long since I have had visitors that I have to remind myself that not everything uses mind-speak. Does this way make you feel more comfortable?" Nodding her head, the Dragon continued as he now looked at Dree. "Welcome Clansman. I have greeted the others, but I sense that you have something of mine that I would also like to say hello to. May I see her?"
"Master! Is that you?" the Oracle excitely and slightly confused asked. "How can there be two of you?" Again, the Monacle laughed. "There is only one of me but there are now two Moon Dragons. I made you to answer to a Moon Dragon, Oracle. Something I did not think about then, but it appears to have worked out for the better this way." As Dree offered to return the Oracle to it's rightful owner, the Monacle shook his head and refused. "You and Arnie will be needing it soon" was all he would say. For a while all of them sat around the Tree as the Monacle told Dree and the others his story of how he had came there and what he had been doing all of this time. As they listened, it was Arnie who noticed something about the Tree. It began with her noticing that some small branches were leafless and in some cases dry and brittle. "The Tree is going to die!" realized Arnie. It was when this thought came to her that she also realized that the Monacle had quit talking and was looking directly at her. "Yes, Arnie. The Tree is dying as I begin to fade. It must have a guardian to help protect it or the ills of all of the realms will overwhelm it. That was why I came here those many years ago to become the Monacle to keep magic in the realms."
"But don't you get lonely?" asked Arnie? "A Borrower is usually a loner, but we don't usually sit by ourselves in the middle of nowhere under a tree." Again, the Dragon smiled. "The Moonies visit me often as they are my helpers. They assist with maintaining the balance in the realms. The magic that the Tree freely gives also flows through me. Because of that I am able to travel everywhere in the realms to watch over things and still stay here to be the Guardian. But I am not omnificent. I can only see what occurs where I mind-travel, and I can make some small changes here and there just like our friend, Dree for an example."
"You Dree are that hatchling. It was not long ago I found the egg and picked a young Fae to discover you as well as sent a Brownie to look over you." The flash of anger that appeared over Dree's face surprised Arnie. She had never seen Dree mad and she hoped never to see it again. It scared her! With a growl in his voice Dree spoke to the Monacle. "Are you saying that everything that has happened to me and my friends has been because of you!" As the Monacle shook it's head, sadly it answered. "No, I only could start your path, each of us must make our paths. What you and the others have done has been your own choices. I only gave you the opportunity as I have watched over you. As a Moon Dragon, something I learned a long time ago is that Sunlight may banish the Darkness away, but Moonlight is the Light in the Darkness. You needed the opportunity to become what you are for soon you will be the only Moon Dragon left as I am fading away."
Fae sat with Trolls laughing and telling stories. Even the Wysps were invited to join in with the others as all were taking in the celebration. "They probably won't even notice I am gone," Dree smiled as he turned to enter the portal with the Moonies. Not everyone was unaware though. Arnie had been watching Dree for a while as she had noticed that he seemed to be 'off somewhere else' since he had first created the portal for the others to escape from the World of Whispers. "Now that I am a Finder instead of a Borrower," she thought, "This looks like the right time to keep an eye on my friend. He's looking for something," and with that thought and smile, she followed him. She was right! Dree was looking for something and now was the time to visit with the other Moon Dragon. Maybe, just maybe, he would finally find his Dragon family. Dree knew he had 'family' here in Wysmy. The others in the village and beyond had all taken him in. They all had helped him grow up and for that he would be forever thankful. But sometimes he wished to know what had happened to his parents and if he had any brothers or sisters. And that is truly a sad thing thought the young Moon Dragon when a Wish Dragon can't even create his own wish. The Oracle had told him that the Outies had something like 'Genie-all-a-gee' which helped them to know their ancestors. The way the Oracle explained it, it still involved a lot of guesses to who were your relatives were too. Dree wasn't too worried about guesses as Dragons live for a very long time and if one relative was found, it would not be hard to talk to that one directly. That was what was on Dree's mind when he stepped through the portal. Both he and the Moonies were so busy that they did not notice Arnie stepping through the portal immediately after they did!
"It's not far from here," Arnie heard Meerher tell Dree. "The Monacle will probably even know you are coming." This surprised Dree. "How would that be?" he asked. "The Monacle watches over the Tree. The Tree is the provider of magic in the realms and without it, all magic would disappear. Your magical spoon is from the tree. That is another way magic can be focused and directed. Wizards like to make wands from branches of the tree when the tree decides to provide them which is rare." Meerher was quiet for a moment as she realized to herself, "I guess that is why there aren't that many wizards now that I think about it."
Now Arnie was proud of her skills at being stealthy when she was a Borrower, but Arnie had never borrowed from a Dragon before and did not know how sensitive their hearing and sense of smell were. Dree had known that she had followed him through the portal and that she was following behind them now. Finally when he decided that the Moonies would not be able to send her back Dree stopped and turned towards where Arnie was hiding. "Arnie, you can come out now and join us," he said to the surprised Finder. "Come up here so you can be introduced properly as my friend."
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