The Dragon Knight Prophecy

1-5 I need it

 They were taken to a dark barn hidden behind the house, lit only by the torch in the farmer's hand. Lilly didn't mind the dark, her dragon sight making it appear bright as day. She followed the two men to a small room in the back that contained little save for two piles of sticks with some cloth thrown over them. The farmer hung the lantern from a hook near the center of the room before bidding them goodnight.

Gersius thanked the man and dropped his pack in the corner before starting on his armor. Lilly crept to one of the stick piles assuming it was a nest of some kind. Maybe there was an animal inside she could eat while they waited here.

"Are you familiar with these?" Gersius asked as he noticed her inspecting one of them.

Lilly looked at the strange nests with her head turned sideways and wondered what he meant.

"We sleep on them; we call them beds," he said, walking over to the one she was closest to. He lifted a blanket and held it open. "We pull these over ourselves to stay warm at night."

"This is your bed?" she asked, unable to believe it.

"Yes, the straw cushions you, and the blanket keeps you warm."

"You rodents pile up sticks and rags to sleep on instead of gold and silver?"

Gersius nodded as he smiled at her remark. "The farmers are relatively poor and have done the best they could for us. This is a very simple bed that will do for one night. You will see when we get to a town that there are much better beds. For tonight though, I need you to sleep here."

"I understand, I will sleep on this, bed," she said as he let the blanket drop.

Gersius was grateful that she accepted that so easily and went back to the other side. Lilly sat on her bed and pulled her knees up, watching him the whole time.

"So humans are not what you thought they were?" he said as he sat on the other bed.

"No, what happened with that woman was not what I expected," Lilly admitted and paused before continuing. "I have no words for what I am feeling. I do not regret that I have come here, but I have concerns."

Gersius nodded and met her gaze as she felt something pushing at her across the bind.

"Why don't we start with you telling me how you feel," he said. "That way, I will know what I need to tell you most."

Lilly nodded her head and looked up as she pondered her next words.

"What I am about to say is very hard for me," She began. "I have lived for over five hundred years, and in all that time, I rarely saw your kind. Even when I did, it was from afar as I flew over your heads hidden in the clouds. You were nothing to me, but little creatures that scurried about with short, miserable lives."

"So, you knew nothing about us?" Gersius asked.

"I know of your nests, these farmhouses. I know of the places where you build lots of nests, what I assume you mean when you say town. I even know the names of some of these places. I know you build your roads, gather your animals, and collect in great numbers. I know what you look like from afar, and never did you occupy my mind or concern me. I am a dragon; I am above you." She broke to make a deep sigh. "Occasionally, one of your kind would venture into my valley, and I would watch you. I never bothered with you even then unless you tried to enter my cave. When you did, I would kill you; your lives mean nothing to me."

Gersius nodded as she paused to take a stuttering breath.

"But now I am forced to walk around in this weak form, lost and helpless. I am bound to one of the rodents, and I can no longer do as I please. I can't even take my true form unless I want to suffer the pain of my mangled wings. I worry that this encounter with these rodents is only the beginning. You plan to take me into these towns and surround me with masses of your kind. I have no concept or your ways, and I feel I will look foolish. I worry that I am destined to walk from humiliation to humiliation as the rodents point at me and laugh."