Alaius had been your rival ever since you two started the academy. Everything you did, he seemed to do it better. As you’d both grew up and learned more about dragon riding, the rivalry only seemed to grow. But one day, as the two of you raced, you got ahead of yourself and you nearly crashed. As he looked back, his smirk melted off and he looked…worried? He stopped and when you both landed, he spoke.

“You can’t do reckless stuff like that! Not on a dragon.”