On the way, she is attacked by locusts and then by Balsaad, the River Dragon she freed in her dream. The next day, Rose encounters the Red Dragon, who orders her to go to her headmaster. She then dreams about freeing a dragon from a river. On the way, Rose gets her 'gitchy feeling' (a manifestation of her dreaming arts), alerting her that something is wrong.

The Red Dragon appears and meets with the headmaster to alert him that the River Dragon has gone rogue. It is clear that Rose is falling for Lucius and that he reciprocates her feelings, but he behaves oddly around Briar. She sets off for Old Man's Cave to take her final exam with Briar, Lucius, the Captain of the Guards, and her two dogs, whom Rose can understand and talk to. Her mastery of the Dreaming Arts, a talent possessed by nearly everyone in her family except her older sister Briar, is renowned throughout the Valley. Rose, the youngest of the two sisters, is being trained to be a Veni-Yan-Cari (an 'Awakened One'). She was possessed by the powerful Lord of the Locusts, driving her mad and leading the other dragons to seal her, as well as the Lord of the Locusts, away in stone. The prologue tells the story of how the world was created by a powerful dragon named Mim, who maintained peace and created powerful dreams. It takes place when Rose Harvestar was a young woman, before her rise to the Atheian throne. The story was originally published as a three-issue miniseries and was later included in both trade paperback and hardcover collections. It was written by Bone creator Jeff Smith and illustrated by Charles Vess, who earned an Eisner nomination for his work on it. Rose is an American comics miniseries, the prequel to the comic book Bone.

Rose by Jeff Smith