I Need A Scoop!!!

Augustus, the Earl of Grey also known as 'Snoop', sits at his desk with the small sign that says 'Editor in Chief' tacked to the front of it, shaking his head side-to-side and wringing his hands thinking to himself. 

"I am loosing my touch! Some of the biggest stories in the past several years let alone decades and I wasn't there!  ​I didn't even know about them until afterwards," he grumbles.  "And that came from one of the minions who was there when I wasn't!"​

The minion mentioned was Meen, the Pyksee, who worked for Hunter, the Shadows' King.  Hunter disappeared and was believed to be gone forever during the Dragon transformation and has left his daughter, Princess (oops - now Queen) Ffion ruling the Shadows' Kingdom.  "Another 'scoop' missed," moaned Snoop to himself.  Meen happened to be stopping by the Village on the Wall (where the Bellwether newspaper was located and Snoop's office), when Snoop casually asked 'What's news?' (a newspaperman's joke - think about it...) only to be told about all of the things he was unaware of...

"How could this have happened?" Snoop thought as Meen went on and on about the events of the past couple of weeks that were unknown to this roving editor/reporter. ​

Somewhere towards the end of the telling, Meen remembered what she was supposed to be doing and bounded off leaving Snoop just standing on the street corner in shock.  "I must get this confirmed!" thought Snoop as he ran into the Bellwether office and hollered "Stop the Presses!"

It did not take long for the news to start traveling throughout the Realms and most of it before the Bellwether could print it.  This was when Snoop truly started wondering if he had lost his ability to be on the edge of the news.  "I have never missed a big story like this before," he reasoned to himself.  "I was the one who let everyone know that a Dragon had returned.  I was the one who always knew when a traveler came back or was going through the Realms."  

"It was me who first reported the possibility of a Borrower finding a Dragon Tablet.  I even was the first to report when the Elifant escaped!"

Thinking about his successes helped Snoop realize that once in a while things were missed, but he could not go on this way much longer.  It was then that he saw someone was sweeping out the Council Chamber across the street from his newspaper office.  "Something special must be going to happen," he realized.  "There isn't a council meeting scheduled again until next month."  

As he started for the door to check it out more, Snoop's unbridled curiosity took over - little did he realize that this time his story may be more than he was looking for... ​