.Silent Flight.

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I was so nervous when I came up here but I feel like I should have never been.

There was no hostility nor anger from the the wyverns, they hadn't forgotten about me.... Soren hadn't forgotten about me.

He was so big now in only six months, he had grown up and not forgotten me, he remembered it all.

I glanced back at Randi thoroughly socked out of her mind before getting an idea.

Even if what she said hurt me I felt amusement creep up inside me and I backed up to the cave entrance.

"What are you doing? Stop!" She stepped forwards me and I ran in, scaling the somewhat easy road up to the second entrance of the cave that light shined in through.

"Hey come back!"

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I ran after her before she could do something stupid, slipping once or twice as I climbed up the rocky tunnel and was blinded for a second by the lights.

I couldn't help but stop when I exited the cave, the view stunning.

"Wow." I couldn't help the amazement washing over me as I saw more of the shiny rainbow of scales, they all looked so peaceful here, in the trees, side of the small pond, diving off the cliff to fly high.

I heard a whistle and looked up.

Renva up in a tree with the green wyvern, using its front paw to hold one of her legs but not sinking in its claws, just carefully holding her, as she had looped her arm around its neck to carry some of her weight herself.

She snapped her finger pointing at the ground and it let her down before hopping out of the tree after her.

I stood up and looked around, confused.

"How is this even safe?" She sided with them but I? Why am I not being torn into pieces? Even I cannot take on this many wyverns.

She grabbed my arm and wrote on it in charcoal like she had one of the first times we spoke.

'Black trust that I won't hurt them so they trust his judgment and he trusts that you are no danger by extension of me being the one that brought you along.'

I read it and rubbed the message off my arm, somehow slowly relaxing despite how my brain was screaming at me, telling me what to feel and what to do.... I was slowly won over by what I was seeing and how peaceful everything was.

"They trust you even after months of being away?" She nodded.

"Raised Soren he must have taught them." She rubbed the green wyverns head with a smile, it was so warm and loving.... The one of a parent...

She held out her hand and I gave her mine as I thought she wanted to write on it again but jerked back when she pulled it near the wyvern.

"What are you doing?!" I shivered when I heard it hiss angrily before she pat its head to calm it down.

"Trust me."

I could feel cold sweat drip down my next as I awaited the pain, to see my wrist be bitten off, feed to a wyvern.

I closed my eyes.

But the pain never came.

I opened one first before the next.

Wordlessly looking in the eyes of the wyvern, the cool but not cold scales smooth like fish scales as strong as steel filled my palm instead of the feeling of a tongue as my wrist was severed.

My wrist.... I still have my wrist.... I have my hand and I am not hurt.

My mouth fell slightly open with a small gasp as the shock finally dawned on me.

I was touching an alive wyvern and he was letting me.

"Why...." I whispered again, an emotion I didn't know I could feel bubbling up. "Why." I slowly inched my hand upwards, curiosity getting the best of my brain, rubbing my hand up the smooth scales.

"They are not monsters." I stared at her with wide eyes before she snapped her finger and the wyvern backed up and climbed up a tall tree really fast before hopping off and gliding straight into another cave in the cliff face to our left... Yeah he cannot fly nor move himself in the air... Those little tail fins are soooo important... A grounded wyvern is a dead wyvern.

"I think.... I can understand... Why you chose this path." I said while looking at her, she had been staring at the wyverns before she looked at me and bashfully looked away again, do I have something on my face? "I think I know why you chose him.... I'll be silent... But the deal still stands.... I train with you and you teach me all there is to know that you know about the wyverns."

She nodded with a smile but it was gone when I didn't smile.

"You don't understand Renva, this changes nothing, I see a wyvern I hunt them, teach me what would make my mind change."

Now you look as serious as I am huh?

"You understand right?"

She nodded.

"Good luck." I said, glancing up where the wyvern had hid away in.

I looked back at her and jerked her chin in a 'come on' manner as I followed her towards home.

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"Chief we are done here."

"Great!" I exclaimed with a wide grin, looking away from the crying women and children being shepherded onto our ships to look at my general and at the landscape of the black smoke rising from the village going up in flames behind him. "What have you found."

"Riches, food and weapons."

"Charge everything! We'll need all the help we can get if I want to be made king of the north in my lifetime.... And have you found any-?" I didn't finish my question but there was no need for it, he knew what I was looking for.

"We found what looks like several entrances chief."

"Excellent." I turned to the biggest of our ships and looked at the chained up beast, pulling out my spiked whip. "Time to make our army even bigger."