Entry #1

I'm a little nervous at the moment because I'm right outside of a human city, but I think I will be able to finish this journal entry without being interrupted. By the way, my name is Shimmer, and the humans would call me a Blue European Dragon. That's possibly because I'm blue and my ancestors come from Europe. Sometimes I wonder why the humans even bothered giving names to all the different types of dragons when they were just going to hunt us to near extinction, anyway.

I keep this journal in a little bag I hang around my neck like a necklace. I also keep the twenty or so small gems that make up my hoard in that bag. It used to be that most dragons had the luxury of having a lair, but now it isn't so. Dragons these days have to travel nonstop to both find food and avoid detection. The reason why us dragons are so afraid of being seen by humans is the mysterious disappearances of the handful of dragons that let the humans see them. No one really knows what happened to the dragons, but some think that they might have gotten put in something called a zoo. Others think that the humans killed them all, which is entirely possible considering the fact that humans tend to kill whatever is strange and frightening to them.

Anyway, I've noticed that it is getting colder by the week, and that means winter is coming. I'm going to have to start heading south towards to equator very soon, maybe even next week. The one thing I know for sure is that I don't want to spend the winter someplace cold again. That was miserable. What was that? Oh, no! Humans are coming! I have to get away from here!