Prologue
As the sun rose on the dawn of July 10th, nobody would have suspected anything out of the ordinary was about to take place. Well at least nothing more extraordinary than the usual in the Darling household, as the family harboured a secret. The 5 residents consisted of a Mr and Mrs Darling, their twin daughters Carrie and Carty and their niece Arianna.
To their neighbourhood they seemed nothing more than an outgoing eccentric family. And to be fair with the family’s supposed horse riding habit (despite the neighbours never having seen them with any horses) and their peculiar hobbies, it was not that far from the truth. Only instead of aliens like their nosy neighbours Mr and Mrs Furth believed, they were Magus or more specifically drachenreiter, dragon riders. Mr and Mrs Darling both possessed gifts of the likes, ordinary people like you and me could never comprehend.
However, as magic has always and will always be a complex yet beautiful thing, both Carrie and Carty Darling, despite having strong Magus genes, had no powers of any kind to speak of unless of course you count baking as magical. This was not an uncommon occurrence as magic works in weird and wonderful ways: two ordinary people can birth a Magus child and two Magus can birth an ordinary child. Mr and Mrs Darling cared very much about their daughters and they were brought up on magic and love even as nagus (non magus children).
Arianna moved to live with them after the sudden unfortunate death of her parents which happened when she was just a babe and the Darlings extended their love to her. Arianna had a series of magical mishaps growing up, starting as minor and growing severer with age so in order to prevent her becoming a danger all these events had been bound in her memories. So she had no recollection of these and was quite happy being a nage like her older cousins.
When Arianna was accepted into the Darling household no one truly understood the greater powers at work, no one truly understood how that one act would change and cement the future of so many others, no one truly understood the journey that had begun.
So as the sun rose on July 10th, no one expected the events that followed.
