High in the painted cliffs of Miralune lived a dragon named Lys, unlike any other. Instead of fire, she breathed color—swirls of sapphire, crimson, and gold. She spent her days painting the sky at sunset and coloring the dreams of children as they slept.
But one day, a shadow covered the land. A jealous sorcerer, who lived in a world of gray, captured Lys and sealed her in a tower of stone. Without her, the sky turned dull, and dreams faded to silence.
A boy named Eli, whose dreams had once been filled with painted forests and candy-colored whales, missed them dearly. Guided by one last spark of color that escaped the tower, he followed the trail with a paintbrush in hand.
Eli reached the tower and painted a doorway using the last hues he remembered. The paint shimmered, and Lys burst free in a riot of color. The sorcerer, blinded by brightness, turned to stone.
Lys and Eli returned to Miralune. From then on, she painted every dream Eli imagined, and Eli became the first Dreamkeeper—a boy who could tell stories in colors, with a dragon for a brush.
