Dragon Heart

***Dragon Heart*** is the second novel in *FeatherWings*. It succeeds *Dragon Soul* and proceeds *Dragon Wings*. The main protagonist is Sand.

## Synopsis

*Who are you?*

In the desert, the dragons there live by a code - a code that states that everything which is abnormal must be cast out and left to die in the scorching heat.

Sand has believed this from hatching, even now when she finds that no other Eukaryan doesn't follow this code or think like the HeatWing. Thrust into a journey with two other species she doesn't trust and barely knows, Sand leads the new trio to the savannas, where an outcasted herd of HeatWings welcomes them with open wings and knows a thing or two about the past.

But the past may just hold more than just the answers they want...

## Plot

### *A Guide to the Dragons of Eukarya*

This Guide shows what dragons are native to continent/planet Eukarya.

### Prologue

*7 years ago...* (2214 A.D.)

Desert, a female HeatWing, watches her dragonets hatch near an oasis her herd is temporarily staying at. She sees that both her dragonets are perfectly healthy, but then realizes that her son does not have proper HeatWing scale coloration (melanism). Later in the day, when Desert's herd decides to leave the oasis to continue roaming the desert, she only takes her daughter with her, as her son would "threaten the survival of the herd".

### Epilogue

Continuing the storyline from *Dragon Soul*'s epilogue, the humans (which include Terry and Danielle) return to their colony, which is located in the southwestern swamps. At the sight of their arrival, the five are captured and placed in a storage unit alongside other colony members. Nicholas Adamson, the colony's leader, mentions that they have been taken over by aliens who wish to use the colony as a base.

*More coming soon...*

## Trivia

* *Dragon Heart* was the hardest novel for the author to write, as the plot needed to add onto the world of Eukarya, follow up on book 1, and set up book 3.
* *Dragon Heart* features the only "woke" and LGBT+ character in the entire series - a "non-binary" (female) HeatWing named Dune. Dune was created to appease the modern "woke" (Marxist) crowd of the 2020s if *FeatherWings* was ever published as a physical copy in the future.
	+ If *FeatherWings* was published (as a physical book) in the future and readers do not want any "woke" characters, Dune's LGBT+ identity will be removed before *Dragon Heart* is published, and Sand will simply hate Dune in the novel based on her view of HeatWing society (rather than Dune's non-binary identity in the original version).
* The (original) title of part one ("Wings of Sand") is a reference to the SandWings of *Wings of Fire*, one of the inspirations for the HeatWings; it was later changed to "Wings of Heat" to prevent potential copyright infringement. The title of part three ("The Survival of the Herd") is a reference to the main HeatWing manta - "*The survival of the herd is above everything else*".
* On the original digital cover of *Dragon Heart*, Bright has five digits on each of her wings. This was an oversight on the author's part, as they usually draw dragons like the ones seen in *Wings of Fire*.
	+ The improved digital cover of *Dragon Heart* corrects this mistake.
* The original epilogue of *Dragon Heart* was the dragon watchers returning to the settlement and being captured by the Ili, in order to set up the events of *Dragon Wings*. The final epilogue was all five main dragon species of continent/planet Eukarya seeing Ili spaceships in the sky and the human dragon watchers being captured.
	+ Quill (unnamed) makes a small cameo at the end.
* In a version of the novel, Sand was raped and impregnated by Swelter, becoming the mother of his dragonets. This scene was ultimately cut as it would be appropriate for a YA novel, but highly inappropriate from an MG novel.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Luna's outlines and notes for *FeatherWings*