Checking the Stone...

As Aralt paced around in his room, he realized that he would never be able to really concentrate on deciding what he should do about the city council and the Dragons until he took care of one other concern first.  "I need to make sure the stone is still working," he thought, "and the only other way to do that since there is no Dragons handy is to go to the cave."

The cave he was thinking about was where he had first discovered the Dragon Heart stone those many years ago.  It was when the Dragons first received their magic that he had decided that he needed to make sure his home was safe and hidden from them. Just in case their magic ran amok since right after the Dragons received their magical abilities it rained chaos in the Realms.

Untrained Dragons were everywhere changing things and granting wishes willy nilly.   Oh yes, he remembered the Dragons causing all sorts of problems that fae like himself had to fix.  "That was my first priority was to make sure they could not do something to myself and my home," Aralt muttered to himself.  "That is when I decided to  move my home to the intersection of magical ley lines.  That was the key solution as it was like hiding a burning match in a forest fire!  One of my more brilliant moves," Aralt smiled to himself as he walked out his room to head to the cave.  "With the large outputs of magical energy coming from the ley lines, no one noticed the little bit hiding my home.  What I hadn't known at the time was there was something else magical where I had moved my home.  Discovering the cave was genius on my part," smirking to himself.  ​

"Well, maybe not exactly just the cave.  But finding that there was an emerald vein that ran along the walls of the cave now directly under my home was more than even I could have wished for," Aralt remembered as he continued walking.  Emeralds are normally considered a stone of love and friendship, but few know that it also opens latent abilities and promotes communication.  When Aralt first found the cave he was delighted as he had been looking for a cellar to store his stash of the local's Dragonbrew ale and  found the cave instead.

​He did not realize the treasure that he had.  For imbedded in the emerald veins of the tunnel, was a large stone in the shape of a Dragon's heart.  At first he thought that he would use it for an ornament since he liked it's green colors that flashed when light hit it, but then something strange happened.

As Aralt removed the stone he felt a tingle go up his arm.  This made him think that the stone might be safer if it was in a locket instead of carrying it directly.  Then  one day he started to hear voices in his head.  Now, normally when one hears voices, it is time to have the local physician check you out, but Aralt had heard this type of talk once before.  It was a voice like the golden Dragon who mind talked to him the day they took away his friend, the Dragonet.  It did not take him long to realize that the stone was giving him this ability whenever he carried it.

Later, Aralt discovered that when he would return to the emerald cave the Dragon Stone would start to glow a pale green.  That is what he wanted to confirm again.  He needed to make sure that it still had its power after all of these years of not being used.

He had finally arrived at his destination.  As he entered the cave the Dragon Heart began to glow.  Now that he knew the Dragon Heart was still connected to the cave and the ley lines, Aralt decided he could return to his room.  It was as he was walking back that an idle thought occurred to him "I wonder where I left that green Dragon orb I made from an emerald of the cave?"

Where was it indeed?