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

Dragonsaurus

On the table coffee, water and orange juice. Mignonettes and I had been eyeing them for a while.

I had a sweet tooth.

Usually adult blahs blahs were handled by Exodus, Valtrax or Ragul...

But here I was confronted with the harsh reality of adults and under pressure, I started to cry in front of everyone.

I was terrified. An unknown world, an existence of lies, I could not distinguish reality from fantasy and I was lost. My wives were the only ones to calm me down and comfort me a little.

I suffered without understanding anything and I went where I was told to go without asking questions. I was as if cut off from the world, uprooted, disoriented, disoriented in my nature and I cried out for Mama Esme...even before Valtrax.

I put myself in a corner of the room, in a ball and did not move anymore.

Rubix was freaking out about my contaminating fear.

Sapphia kept her cool against all odds and it was naturally to her that the professor, his assistant and the general looked.

Sapphia lowered her head.

"Torin and Rubix are really scared. Torin has only been a dragon for six months...and it's a trauma for him... He was always a dragon but didn't know it and was raised by Ragul and Esme, and a little bit by me."

The teacher was dumbfounded How was this possible?

"Rubix is also very scared. She is very smart but she is traumatized. Instead of growing naturally, she has slowed her growth to remain as human as possible.

She has clung to Torin as a lifeline. Too smart and having a bipedal posture instead of a quadruped, she was rebellious and didn't want to be trained like a foal.

She wanted to join the humans at the academy and become a dragon knight like the dragon riders.

It was either that or the salt mines where she had been sold and it was blindness, sawed horns and sawed wings that awaited her. A horrible and cruel fate. So she hung on!

Lucien, knowing the hard military training of the knight candidates at that time, admired the courage of the "little" creature. But also admired Torin and Saphie because they too were knighted.

The military man remained thoughtful and saw that we behaved relatively human and were not "vicious, devious aliens as portrayed in science fiction movies and stories."

Then the fateful question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

Saphie replied, "I'm a knight, but here it's useless, except flying on my husband's back.... But daddy taught me blacksmithing .."

The teacher explained that there were many trades involving metalwork such as boilermaker, welder, general mechanics, but also blacksmith and ironwork and agricultural. where they repaired agricultural machinery, trailers, plows and systems. There were training courses and technical schools in agricultural sciences.

I came out of my ball, understanding a little the questions.

"I was a farmer with Dad and we raised horses...but I'm in over my head. Everything is so different.."

Rubix snapped out of her slumber and it... "Yes.. I like computers..programs.. I would like to learn."

The soldier then asked, "Don't you want to stay together?"

Rubix resumed: "We're hungry...and we have a problem...here, the wilderness...it's hard and...there's so much to discover...we don't know where to start...and...I'd like to go, well, WE'd like to go to school...we don't know anything about here."