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	~~'''The Right of Dreamers'''<br />~~
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	Once again was Friday 16:40 pm, as it was thousand times before, just as it will be for the rest of my life. At least I thought so, looking through the system logs before shutting down the two internal servers in the office for the weekend. There was also third server here, but it was intended for external information exchange so it should be constantly running.<br />		\|name=The Right of Dreamers
	Suddenly speakers of my workstation emitted high-pitched dolphin squeal. It was a signal from one of my search ‘spider’ applets hanging on many servers all over the net dedicated to the topic of shapechanging and shapeshifting. The applet had just traced down a new story on one of them. It was pleasant, but pretty surprising. There was nothing new for quite a long time. “Just the right time for a new TF story”,-- I thought to myself, clicking ‘Download’ button in a popup window.<br />		\|author=Grey Dragon
	After shutting both internal servers down, just before shutting down my own workstation, I decided to visit the server the new TF story came from, but as I clicked the link in the ‘spider’s’ log file, the only thing I saw in my browser window was ‘HTTP Error 500: Internal server error’. It was pretty strange as the server was old well known and maintained by it’s owners. Somewhat puzzled I uploaded zip archive with the new TF story to my flesh-memory card, shut down my workstation and went home.<br />		\|user=GreyDragon}}
	At home I quickly made myself a light supper and just swallowed it, thinking of anything but the food. Then I went straight to my PC. It wasn’t too late yet and I had the whole weekend before me, so I decided to look at the new TF story right away.<br />
	After checking the archive for viruses and malware I finally unzipped the file. The file was named ‘Right of Dreamers’ It was in plane text format, the more I was amazed with it’s size. The story should be several hundred pages long for the file to be so big. Completely intrigued I quickly opened the file.<br />		Once again was Friday 16:40 pm, as it was thousand times before, just as it will be for the rest of my life. At least I thought so, looking through the system logs before shutting down the two internal servers in the office for the weekend. There was also third server here, but it was intended for external information exchange so it should be constantly running.
	Right of Dreamers by YoungMagician said the title. I started reading a story. At first it sounded like an ordinary fairy tale. It was set in an ancient empire capital called ‘Stronghold of Thousand Towers’. There was a young magician working hard in the main library of the Council of Spellcasters situated in the Tower of the Council. He was looking for some kind of very special spell of the Magic of Knowledge. The spell was called Shifting Key of Grey Flame Dragon. It was one of the Dream Keys – a very special set of spells once created by an ancient mage known as The Keymaker. The mage was extremely skillful in The Magic of Knowledge. No one had reached comparable skill, neither before nor after him. The Keys he created were extremely powerful been completely useless for most mages at the same time. <br />
	Most of them had several different functions. Shifting Key of Grey Flame Dragon for example created three magical objects deep within the part of caster’s soul that enables a creature to use magic. The first object granted the caster with the ability of shapeshifting. When the object was active the caster was indistinguishable from an initially magical being capable of shapeshifting. The second object called Key of Grey Flame was intended to control the energy of artificial magical element called Grey Flame and to transform any other type of magical energy into Grey Flame. The third object called Source of Grey Flame worked as a magical generator sapling the caster with a constant flow of the special magic energy. The flow could be stopped by the caster if it was necessary.<br />		Suddenly speakers of my workstation emitted high-pitched dolphin squeal. It was a signal from one of my search ‘spider’ applets hanging on many servers all over the net dedicated to the topic of shapechanging and shapeshifting. The applet had just traced down a new story on one of them. It was pleasant, but pretty surprising. There was nothing new for quite a long time. “Just the right time for a new TF story”,-- I thought to myself, clicking ‘Download’ button in a popup window.
	~~Two of the three objects were a desire for any mage. The Grey Flame was~~
			After shutting both internal servers down, just before shutting down my own workstation, I decided to visit the server the new TF story came from, but as I clicked the link in the ‘spider’s’ log file, the only thing I saw in my browser window was ‘HTTP Error 500: Internal server error’. It was pretty strange as the server was old well known and maintained by it’s owners. Somewhat puzzled I uploaded zip archive with the new TF story to my flesh-memory card, shut down my workstation and went home.

			At home I quickly made myself a light supper and just swallowed it, thinking of anything but the food. Then I went straight to my PC. It wasn’t too late yet and I had the whole weekend before me, so I decided to look at the new TF story right away.

			After checking the archive for viruses and malware I finally unzipped the file. The file was named ‘Right of Dreamers’ It was in plane text format, the more I was amazed with it’s size. The story should be several hundred pages long for the file to be so big. Completely intrigued I quickly opened the file.

			Right of Dreamers by YoungMagician said the title. I started reading a story. At first it sounded like an ordinary fairy tale. It was set in an ancient empire capital called ‘Stronghold of Thousand Towers’. There was a young magician working hard in the main library of the Council of Spellcasters situated in the Tower of the Council. He was looking for some kind of very special spell of the Magic of Knowledge. The spell was called Shifting Key of Grey Flame Dragon. It was one of the Dream Keys – a very special set of spells once created by an ancient mage known as The Keymaker. The mage was extremely skillful in The Magic of Knowledge. No one had reached comparable skill, neither before nor after him. The Keys he created were extremely powerful been completely useless for most mages at the same time.

			Most of them had several different functions. Shifting Key of Grey Flame Dragon for example created three magical objects deep within the part of caster’s soul that enables a creature to use magic. The first object granted the caster with the ability of shapeshifting. When the object was active the caster was indistinguishable from an initially magical being capable of shapeshifting. The second object called Key of Grey Flame was intended to control the energy of artificial magical element called Grey Flame and to transform any other type of magical energy into Grey Flame. The third object called Source of Grey Flame worked as a magical generator sapling the caster with a constant flow of the special magic energy. The flow could be stopped by the caster if it was necessary.

			Two of the three objects were a desire for any mage. The Grey Flame was a very special element having the properties of all the other magical elements and a long list of it’s own features that could only exist on the thinnest borders between more common elements’ properties which is unreachable in most situations. This element could turn indistinguishable from any common magical element letting the mage to use any type of magic. On the other hand, been originally created by The Keymaker himself the element wasn’t controlled by any gods, spirits or other intelligent magical existences, so the mage could freely use it without making any debts to anyone or anything. The Source of Grey Flame was capable of sapling the mage with considerable amount of magical energy. The amount was comparable with the natural energy of the most powerful of those magical beings who can’t be yet called goods, and it was the bigger the more developed was the mage’s soul. The Key of Grey Flame gave the mage the level of control and interaction with the magical element only initially magical creatures can have with their natural powers.

			As the magical objects created within casters soul by one of the Keys were similar in many way to the natural abilities of initially magical beings they could, in some circumstances, easily create many serious difficulties for the mage having them active, just as the properties of initially magical beings can. Though this problem was successfully solved by The Keymaker at the very beginning of he’s work. The magical objects are not created by a Key itself. When a Key is casted it interacts closely with casters identity and creates a set of spells within caster’s memory. The number of spells created is always even as there are pairs of them. One of spells in a pair is intended to create certain magical object within caster’s soul, the other one – to remove the object. The pair spells created by a Key belong to The True Magic of Knowledge (as well as the Keys). They do not require mana to be casted as all energy they need is in the words of spells themselves. The spells are just useless sets of strange words for anyone, but the person who received them using a Key. This allows the spells to have necessary power, while been compact enough to be casted in less then seconds using them just in mind not aloud.

			Unlike the spells they create, Keys can be used by anyone, but they must be read aloud and it usually takes several days to cast one of them as they are extremely long. No former magical knowledge and training is necessary to cast a Key. Nevertheless, finding a person able to use any of the Keys is a very difficult task.

			The Keymaker created different spells but all of them create within caster’s soul a magical object granting him certain type of shapesifting or shapechanging abilities and for all those abilities there are default forms. On one hand, the forms themselves and some of their features can’t be changed as they are determined in the words of the Key. If a Key is called Shifting Key of Grey Flame Dragon, it will give it’s caster sapeshifting abilities and he’s default form will be a grey dragon. The dragon will be a male, as the gender of default form is also determined by the Key. On the other hand many features of the default form are determined by the magic of harmony using caster’s soul for guidance. This interaction is very deep and strong and if a caster is not truly accepting the unchangeable features of the default for determined in a Key, the pair spells for invoking and removing the shapeshifting or shapechanging abilities won’t be created, as well as any other spells the key can create, because a Key is solid magical system that can’t work partly.

			When this feature of The Keys was discovered by The Council of Spellcasters, The Keymaker was demanded to change he’s spells for them to be suitable for any mage despite he’s dreams and desires. The

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	Despite all difficulties of thinking with The Key in my mind, I copied the file with the story on a CD-R before shutting my PC down. I put the disk in a small safe, where I was keeping my most valuable things (mostly data on different sort of carriers). I locked the safe, made several steps to cross the room and finally collapsed on the bed. I was now lying facedown with my hands under my chest my head turned on the side. It was the medium version of what I was calling ‘sleeping dragon position’ to myself. To assume the most dragon version of the pose I had to pull my knees under my belly and turn my head facedown. After a few moments of straggling with my more and more sleepy state I managed to take the position. It isn’t too comfortable if you have human body, but in my current state it didn’t matter anymore. Next moment I was asleep.<br />		Despite all difficulties of thinking with The Key in my mind, I copied the file with the story on a CD-R before shutting my PC down. I put the disk in a small safe, where I was keeping my most valuable things (mostly data on different sort of carriers). I locked the safe, made several steps to cross the room and finally collapsed on the bed. I was now lying facedown with my hands under my chest my head turned on the side. It was the medium version of what I was calling ‘sleeping dragon position’ to myself. To assume the most dragon version of the pose I had to pull my knees under my belly and turn my head facedown. After a few moments of straggling with my more and more sleepy state I managed to take the position. It isn’t too comfortable if you have human body, but in my current state it didn’t matter anymore. Next moment I was asleep.<br />
	The very first thing for me, as I woke up, was the feeling of physical comfort. I never felt anything like this before. May be it was because my human body was never too healthy. I doubt the healthiest and strongest of humans ever felt anything near to the feeling, though. Human body (even a healthy one) is desperately week and almost unprotected from the environment. So there always are some cautions and warnings from the body. A human feels them as a sort of pain or discomfort.<br />		The very first thing for me, as I woke up, was the feeling of physical comfort. I never felt anything like this before. May be it was because my human body was never too healthy. I doubt the healthiest and strongest of humans ever felt anything near to the feeling, though. Human body (even a healthy one) is desperately week and almost unprotected from the environment. So there always are some cautions and warnings from the body. A human feels them as a sort of pain or discomfort.<br />
	By my feelings I knew that I was lying upon the remains of my bed, the air in the room is hot (for a human) and many other things of the sort, but the feelings were information, not warning. They were neither pain nor discomfort. I clearly felt wrecked wood under the bed-clothes but it was still perfectly comfortable as my skin was well protected with scales. I was in the same position as before, but it felt most natural and comfortable now. My long neck was bent in a very comfortable way. My head rested on my front fourlimbs. Bathing in the formerly unknown feeling of physical safety and comfort, I started mental selfcheck.<br />		By my feelings I knew that I was lying upon the remains of my bed, the air in the room is hot (for a human) and many other things of the sort, but the feelings were information, not warning. They were neither pain nor discomfort. I clearly felt wrecked wood under the bed-clothes but it was still perfectly comfortable as my skin was well protected with scales. I was in the same position as before, but it felt most natural and comfortable now. My long neck was bent in a very comfortable way. My head rested on my front fourlimbs*8. Bathing in the formerly unknown feeling of physical safety and comfort, I started mental selfcheck.<br />
	First thing to check were the spells. There should be six of them in my memory. With the thought they immediately came up from my memory. They were extremely powerful and short as a strike of a dragon’s claw. They were just sets of words but I could easily feel the great magical power within them as the words were part of my own self and soul. I could easily cast any of them with a single thought. Smiling happily to myself I continued my mental selfcheck. There was no need to move or perform any other special activities to explore myself. Unlike as it was for me as a human, I could now clearly feel every aspect of myself with all it’s features by just turning my attention to it. The feeling was telling me much more then I could have seen just looking on myself with my eyes, as plenty of the aspects were magical and couldn’t be directly observed in physical world. As my selfexploring went on I felt more and more satisfied and calm. The Key definitely worked just as it should according to it’s description in the story. My new body was a perfect summary of all my former attempts to imagine and describe a dragon body I dreamed to have.<br />		First thing to check were the spells. There should be six of them in my memory. With the thought they immediately came up from my memory. They were extremely powerful and short as a strike of a dragon’s claw. They were just sets of words but I could easily feel the great magical power within them as the words were part of my own self and soul. I could easily cast any of them with a single thought. Smiling happily to myself I continued my mental selfcheck. There was no need to move or perform any other special activities to explore myself. Unlike as it was for me as a human, I could now clearly feel every aspect of myself with all it’s features by just turning my attention to it. The feeling was telling me much more then I could have seen just looking on myself with my eyes, as plenty of the aspects were magical and couldn’t be directly observed in physical world. As my selfexploring went on I felt more and more satisfied and calm. The Key definitely worked just as it should according to it’s description in the story. My new body was a perfect summary of all my former attempts to imagine and describe a dragon body I dreamed to have.<br />
	In many aspects it was rather designed by extremely advanced science, then by the laws of magic. My default form wasn’t magical itself. It had most of the properties and features of the dragon’s body described in an SF story I once wrote*1: Intricate structure of muscles, giving my body more then draconic strength without a hint of magic, extremely strong bones and tendons to accommodate the strength and extremely sensitive and branched nerves to control it and to achieve the fastest possible rate of reaction. My eyes could refocus to see either distant or microscopic objects; they were also able to see any part of spectrum from infrared to the X-ray. Same was the situation with sounds. There was powerful sonar in my forehead. It was perfectly working in both air and water, and extremely sensitive. It was first of all a wonderful precession tool for exploring the environment, but it could be easily used as a precise and powerful acoustic weapon. The weapon was not the only one my new body had. There was a biological version of a flamethrower hidden in my neck and muzzle. I was now able to blow a long torch of white fire from between my nostrils. The fire could be either a sticky liquid (lake napalm but with the temperature of plasma-cutter’s flame) or gas (with the same temperature). There was one more intricate organic weapon originally not intended to be one, as well as my sonar. My new body had a graviradar (it functions much like the ordinary radar, but using gravity waves instead of the radio once). Been closely integrated with the biological version of gravity control system hidden in every cell of my body to let me fly having big body mass, this system is able to create impulses of gravity powerful enough to be used not only for environment exploring, but also as a weapon. I also had extremely sharp talons and a pair of horns having the form of long sharp-edged triangular blades. The talons could be pooled in as well as fingers, so there were new combinations possible. If for example the fingers are pooled in and the talons are extended, the talons can form an armored fist or a sharp-tipped hoof (very useful for running at high speed if road is suitable). My double set of teeth could be also used as a deadly weapon, though I would do my best to avoid it, because in my new body the taste of raw meat is deeply disgusting for me. My teeth are intended to chew properly a wide variety of food, as in my default form I can eat anything that can be considered eatable by any reason. This body has many defensive systems beginning from the macrophysiological level (two hearts with doubled systems of blood-vessel’s for the most important organs like brain, extremely hard scales etc ) to the microphysiological, tissue and cellular levels. All the features together will perfectly protect my body even in the most aggressive environment, as well as give me some other interesting benefits. For example I can swim to the surface as fast as I want despite the depth of the dive and I can dive very deep if I’ll be patient enough to accumulate enough oxygen in the tissues of my body through breathing exercises. The last but, may be, the most powerful line of defense is the extremely effective and fast regeneration. Any part of my body will fully regenerate, if the rest of the body will ménage to stay alive long enough. One of the most intricate and amazing in my new body was one quite small organ in my muzzle providing me with the sense of smell. It is capable to determinate any combination of substances formed by elements from periodic table and, probably, beyond it. Fortunately, my sense of smell as well as the sense of touch (also extremely sharp despite the scales) and the rest of my new set of senses was fully within deliberate control so I was able to freely change their combination and level of sensitivity. Otherwise they would have been more curse then blessing. Now all my senses were suppressed to almost human level. It wouldn’t be pleasant to do otherwise in my current surrounding.<br />		In many aspects it was rather designed by extremely advanced science, then by the laws of magic. My default form wasn’t magical itself. It had most of the properties and features of the dragon’s body described in an SF story I once wrote*1: Intricate structure of muscles, giving my body more then draconic strength without a hint of magic, extremely strong bones and tendons to accommodate the strength and extremely sensitive and branched nerves to control it and to achieve the fastest possible rate of reaction. My eyes could refocus to see either distant or microscopic objects; they were also able to see any part of spectrum from infrared to the X-ray. Same was the situation with sounds. There was powerful sonar in my forehead. It was perfectly working in both air and water, and extremely sensitive. It was first of all a wonderful precession tool for exploring the environment, but it could be easily used as a precise and powerful acoustic weapon. The weapon was not the only one my new body had. There was a biological version of a flamethrower hidden in my neck and muzzle. I was now able to blow a long torch of white fire from between my nostrils. The fire could be either a sticky liquid (lake napalm but with the temperature of plasma-cutter’s flame) or gas (with the same temperature). There was one more intricate organic weapon originally not intended to be one, as well as my sonar. My new body had a graviradar (it functions much like the ordinary radar, but using gravity waves instead of the radio once). Been closely integrated with the biological version of gravity control system hidden in every cell of my body to let me fly having big body mass, this system is able to create impulses of gravity powerful enough to be used not only for environment exploring, but also as a weapon. I also had extremely sharp talons and a pair of horns having the form of long sharp-edged triangular blades. The talons could be pooled in as well as fingers, so there were new combinations possible. If for example the fingers are pooled in and the talons are extended, the talons can form an armored fist or a sharp-tipped hoof (very useful for running at high speed if road is suitable). My double set of teeth could be also used as a deadly weapon, though I would do my best to avoid it, because in my new body the taste of raw meat is deeply disgusting for me. My teeth are intended to chew properly a wide variety of food, as in my default form I can eat anything that can be considered eatable by any reason. This body has many defensive systems beginning from the macrophysiological level (two hearts with doubled systems of blood-vessel’s for the most important organs like brain, extremely hard scales etc ) to the microphysiological, tissue and cellular levels. All the features together will perfectly protect my body even in the most aggressive environment, as well as give me some other interesting benefits. For example I can swim to the surface as fast as I want despite the depth of the dive and I can dive very deep if I’ll be patient enough to accumulate enough oxygen in the tissues of my body through breathing exercises. The last but, may be, the most powerful line of defense is the extremely effective and fast regeneration. Any part of my body will fully regenerate, if the rest of the body will ménage to stay alive long enough. One of the most intricate and amazing in my new body was one quite small organ in my muzzle providing me with the sense of smell. It is capable to determinate any combination of substances formed by elements from periodic table and, probably, beyond it. Fortunately, my sense of smell as well as the sense of touch (also extremely sharp despite the scales) and the rest of my new set of senses was fully within deliberate control so I was able to freely change their combination and level of sensitivity. Otherwise they would have been more curse then blessing. Now all my senses were suppressed to almost human level. It wouldn’t be pleasant to do otherwise in my current surrounding.<br />
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	5. An expression common for mages in Seltinos’s home world. It English equivalent is something like “For Heaven's sake”.<br />		5. An expression common for mages in Seltinos’s home world. It English equivalent is something like “For Heaven's sake”.<br />
	6. The term is my personal translation of the Russian term “информационная централь” used in SF book series “A Word About a Dragon”. The series is written by Russian author Pavel Shumilov (Павел Шумилов). There are English translations of all or nearly all books in the series. There are available on the author’s official site “www.dragonbase.narod.ru”. My story “Vortex Chronicles” mentioned above actually takes place in the universe of “A Word About a Dragon” series but I wrote my story to suggest my own version for certain key features of the original world, so my story is changing them. In fact I was considering the base of The Order as one of possible magical versions for the scientific dragon bases in the “A Word About a Dragon” when writing “Right of Dreamers”. That is why the place is actually called the base and why I used the term IT-central to indicate the server-hall on the base. <br />		6. The term is my personal translation of the Russian term “информационная централь” used in SF book series “A Word About a Dragon”. The series is written by Russian author Pavel Shumilov (Павел Шумилов). There are English translations of all or nearly all books in the series. There are available on the author’s official site “www.dragonbase.narod.ru”. My story “Vortex Chronicles” mentioned above actually takes place in the universe of “A Word About a Dragon” series but I wrote my story to suggest my own version for certain key features of the original world, so my story is changing them. In fact I was considering the base of The Order as one of possible magical versions for the scientific dragon bases in the “A Word About a Dragon” when writing “Right of Dreamers”. That is why the place is actually called the base and why I used the term IT-central to indicate the server-hall on the base. <br />
	7. The words mean “Thank You very much, master Hiroshi” in Japanese. Actually I don’t speak Japanese. I just used one of a few Japanese expressions I know as it seemed suitable for the situation.		7. The words mean “Thank You very much, master Hiroshi” in Japanese. Actually I don’t speak Japanese. I just used one of a few Japanese expressions I know as it seemed suitable for the situation. <br />
			8.Fourlimbs can be used as arms and legs.

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