[Shard World 01] • Dragonfire

Nev Anderson and her father didn’t have much, but they got by well enough.

With most of her time taken up by school study, getting Dad ready for work,

and working her own part-time job to help make ends meet, there wasn’t a lot

of free time left for a teen with good grades who ‘didn’t get out much’. What

little spare time she did have was spent at martial arts training, reading

fantasy novels, or hanging out with her best friend, Persephone, watching Game

of Thrones.

Percy sometimes joked that Nev should get herself a boyfriend (Nev was pretty

sure she was joking, and she’d been acting weird lately anyway), but there

didn’t seem to be time to even think about that, and Nev would be the first to

admit that even at seventeen, she didn’t know the first thing about that kind

of silliness.

Nev didn’t complain much: she was happy enough, most of the time, and tough as

things sometimes were, she knew there were plenty of other people that had it

much worse. There were times though when she did wish for a little more

excitement… something different to break up the monotony of day-to-day life in

a small country town…

Something her concept of ‘something different’ didn’t include however was

being unexpectedly dragged through a magical portal to another world, be

denounced as a witch and get caught up in a medieval war; yet that’s exactly

what happens one afternoon after just one out-of-character decision to cut

classes and take off on some misguided ‘nature ride’ with Percy.

On the run and armed with a 700-year-old sword, a crystal necklace with

strange magical powers and an overload of 21st century attitude, Nev’s going

to need every ounce of her strength, her smarts and her martial arts training

to escape an ageless evil entity, protect a princess, save a kingdom and

maybe… just maybe… sort out that whole ‘boyfriend’ thing into the bargain.

All things considered, Nev Anderson had had better birthdays…