Torin the dragon rider (TOME 12 of the TIAMAT'S WARS SERIE)

Horror

After all these events, I was still disturbed.

I had my mom, my dad and a bit of Valtrax?

My strength would come from my contamination but Rubix had insinuated the doubt. So if I followed the logic of Valtrax, my father would be Exodus?

But I am human. I don't have scales, I don't have slit eyes and I have hair and I'm almost an adult human...The translation... over and over again but I felt like a chasm inside me...

A chalk hit my face and brought me out of my meditations

"TORIN Since you seem to know and your friend Rubix seems lost in my class... why don't you come and explain a little about the history of heroes to our recruits...

How Shepard became the avatar that pacified all of Britannia with the Lord British Avenue?

Come on down... rubix and Torin... our two champions... (Laughs)."

"HUH????"

Saphie, Beth and my buddies were laughing.. We'll see Musclor explain Britannia in his own way...We were at Neuville's heckled class.

He was always grumbling and always got the wrong student for punishment. With his poor eyesight, it was off to the right once, to the left once and it was a mess every time.

Half the class didn't care about the teacher and didn't listen.

They copied the notes. But Rubix was scared to death. It was a rare privilege for her to be accepted.

That night, she had left her bed in the girls' dormitory and come to me. But Amon was in the doorway, an iron rope in hand. A mage accompanied him and placed a sphere of silence, and purple scents filled the room.

Everyone was asleep and Rubix was paralyzed with fear.

The rope magically wrapped around her muzzle and she could do nothing to free herself.

Her hands and paws were weak. The spell of weakness had been cast on her and she was pulled out of the dormitories.

The pain of the wires digging into her scales and squeezing her snout deprived her of air through a noose.

Chains magically appeared on her hands and paws.

Amon: "Who do you think you are... A human dragon? A halfling?

No... you're a Rosse! A rebellious dragoness and you're going where you should have gone a long time ago: To the ruins of Covetous... to the gem and salt mines."

Please... Please Lord Amon.... I will do anything..."

But she received a blow in the stomach.

"A dragon is four-legged! And he doesn't talk!"

She was dragged to the front of the stables and a farrier came and put a bit on the dragoness

"Nann please not Chha..HHHR HRRRR"

Rubix could not speak and the chain from her legs was tied around her neck to force her to walk on all fours. She was crying and trying to call out to Torin.

"O INNNN OUU RRR" (Torin help!!! to me!!!) A kick sent her to the side and the horrible marshal came in with a red-hot iron.

"COVETOUS MINE"

in large and in a banner.Flesh burned and Rubix screamed in pain... indescribable pain....She was marked forever....

Then he drove stakes into the ground and attached chains to the limbs of the dragon and took a saw...Two helpers grabbed Rubix's wing and the iron met the flesh, bones and tendons.

In a few seconds, Rubix, taken of an unimaginable pain saw her 2 beautiful wings cut and without life. Blood was spurting and she was bleeding from the mouth, her tongue bruised by the pain.

Then the red iron to cauterize...

Amon "Where you're going, the wings will get in the way and you'll die!"

Broken, she was in a ball...

Amon: "Load this..."Then a shadow and Torin shouted "

I was too late...poor Rubix...Forgive me!"

and he hit Amon on the ground.Then Rubix was loaded in a cart and she fell.... From the bed...It was another one of her nightmares.

She jumped on my neck again and cried and sobbed. I had to console her and take her back to her bed like a little girl.

But she had peed in it... the terror...Saphie, Beth and I washed the mess but Rubix was embarrassed and panicked.

Several nights in a row, we were tired and to follow in class without falling asleep was a challenge. We went to see a cleric and find out how to help Rubix...

To have as "patient" a dragoness was exiting for Manu and his teacher. Then he explained me that Rubix was a being of transition. Human teenager in the head, a baby dragon body, borderline juvenile and a cruel past, it didn't help.

And as with all children, we ended up giving in and leaving the dragoness's mattress against my bed. That way she could hold my hand or touch me when the nights of terror hit her again.

She was forbidden to go drinking just before sleeping and had to go to the latrine just before.

Manu, then cast the cleric spell "Soothing" before she went to sleep and it began to pay off.

But Manu had also found the likely source of her nightmares through internal conflicts and heartbreak.

As a child, she was subjected to horrible choices. So we were on the board like two pigeons and didn't know where to start.

It was funny to see the red dragoness hiding behind me. At least not for me and certainly not for her.

"Alright, stay up for the duration of the class. Rubix, this way I'm sure you'll have learned your lesson and .Then he began: "

After the defeat of Exodus by the hero Shepard but also the terrible Mondain and Minax, There were terrible earthquakes and it was like the end of the world of Sosaria... Three quarters of the world were swallowed up and found themselves on the other side of the dungeons. The cities were in ruins. Tsunamis razed dungeons, castles and crops but out of all this mess our good Lord British reunited all these lands and the land as we know it is now called Britannia. The corruption due to the triad, the denials and the collaborators, they too had survived and the population was lost, unable to take charge of itself and that is when the system of virtues was created. And that's what we're still looking for now, a hero who can be in balance with the eight virtues who would become an Avatar...

As opposed to Thor, the destroyer...This system does not come from our world but from Shepard's world which means

"the shepherd..."

the one who was a model for us. It was based on the code system of chivalry under King Arthur and Camelot in his world. But a protagonist, a hero accompanying Shepard showed up. He is and still is a hero but also an Avatar of the Eight Virtues. And he is closer to you than you think. Yet he is the one who brought back the Codex of Infinite Wisdom, which was able to put a definitive end to the dark ages.

Rubix collapsed like a child of heart at the mass...exhausted of boring stories...We left under the general laughter.