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Preface

Burning Snow is a piece of Player Created Fiction written by Herko Kerghans as one of his many Children's Tales. Originally published in the EVE-online forums [1].

Burning Snow

Many, many autumns ago… a Dragon wanted to know how the snow tastes like. There was no snow in his planet, none at all, so he spread his dark wings and flew all the way across sky and space until he reached Home and the Kaalakiota Peaks, because back then the Kaalakiota Peaks were covered with the thickest, whitest snow in all of Eve.

The Dragon set his claws over the snow, lowered his huge head with his jaws wide open and tried to take a mouthful. But Dragons breath fire as hot as a thousand suns, and every time he opened his jaws the snow melted before he could taste it.

The Dragon tried and tried, but the harder he tried the hotter his breath became, and more the snow melted, and the Dragon was furious. Finally his anger burned so hot that all the snow was melting, and the Dragon stood huge and fierce, and yelled,

“If this snow I cannot taste, then none will”.

So he flew high, high over wind and sky until his dark wings covered the sun and the day became night. And with his jaws open wide he rained fire upon snow, wood and mountain, and everything back Home started to burn.

Our houses burned... Our cities burned... Our families burned.

Only a lucky few that the Fire spared ran away to our ships and escaped from the Dragon, leaving Home behind.

That’s why grandma and grandpa had to leave Home far, far away, and that’s why we live in Lonetrek and The Forge today.

That’s why Home is burned and scarred now, and the Kaalakiota Peaks are dark and barren, and now they have no snow.

And that’s why we cannot return Home yet… not until you and your brothers grow tall and strong, strong enough to face the Dragon, make him go back to his own planet, and leave our Home to us.

From”16 autumn stories to share with our children”, YR98, Lai Dai Press (reprinted with permission)

Suggested additional resources for parents and teachers, inquire with your Lai Dai local representative for more information:

-All ages: Holovids of the Kaalakiota Mountains before and after the Bombardment (Code CT-239A)

-Age 3+: Holovids of the Bombardment (Code CT-239B). Warning: some children may find the images upsetting.

-Age 4+: Holovids of Galleantian “Dracofeu” Class Orbital Bomber (Code: CT-412H). Inquire with your Lai Dai representative for more Gallentian ships if required.

-Age 5+: Workbook “Yakiya Tovil-Toba and the Dragon: introducing the Gallente-Caldari conflict to children” and related holovids (Code: CT-512Aa, CT-512Ab, and CT-512Ac)