- Ocean -
A cat dragon peaks through the door. "Hello," Ti cries, "are you here to-"
I jump, bonking the desk, making the bell on top ring.
"Hey, are you okay? Did I startle you?"
Her eyes twinkle with the concern that I have yet to be familiar with.
"Yeah," I mutter, "I-I'm okay."
It takes her a second before she recognizes me, before she realizes who I am, she squints at me, obviously confused why a cat at my age would go to the orphanage. Her eyes widen. "Ocean! You came! I was getting ready to send the Fierce Fighters after you!" she says, mentioning the police force of the land cat dragons.
"Here, I have something you're going to have to fill out. It's a form, signifying that you're going to live here temporarily, while your family situations get checked out and fixed." She walks to the other side of the desk and opens a small drawer on the left of her side of the table. She takes out a stack of papers. In their top left corner, a hole has been punched through them, where a string attaches the pages together.
I stare at the papers, feeling overwhelmed. It's a little difficult to fill out a form when you don't know how to read.
"You're not going to be able to easily 'check out and fix' my family situation," I say. "Um... Am I the one who has to fill it out?"
"Well, yeah," she replies.
Finding no other way around that, I realize that... I'm going to have to tell the truth... aren't I.
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Flerae: A Lie Untold
FantasyThere may be two copies of this story. This is the most revised version. Mer cat dragons, like Ocean, usually live underwater, but having hatched without gills, he has to live on land, where there is no mer cat dragon school. He wishes for an e...
