A few hours before... in the Village.
"BAM BAM BAM" Kate tapped her paw on the floor in front of the council chamber.
Sarah came out, in a hurry because of the ruckus the dragoness was causing.
"Kate??? this is not the time... my kids crashed on a mission!!!"
"Let me go get them... two or three of us will go faster... by the time I get a shuttle ready, they'll be long gone and I'll fly fast..."
Sarah "you can talk... try to run the Ummite shuttles... at least it pays off.!"
"Oh.. Sarah... try to understand me... I have nothing left...I'm all alone...and look at me with these 25 meters... by putting me in a ball I have the size of an English bus... Don't you think I would like to be like you too? "
Sarah: "Stop your whining... you are a beautiful dragoness. Everybody loves you here. And we beg every day that they give you back the little ones... We're in this together..."
Kate: "Sniff.."
Bello: "Kate...you're stronger than you think...don't let it get you down.. And don't forget that you have time for yourself...and you will have opportunities...Come on...courage!"
With these words, the dragoness pulled herself together and raised her head... "Yes... I have to fight...!"
Sara: "That's the spirit!!!"
They loaded some bags and weapons on Kate's back and installed 2 saddles which they adjusted and then climbed on the dragoness.
Immediately she took off with all the grace of her species and they raced to the crash site without missing a beat.
Sarah asked Kate, "Do you even know any magic spells?"
"Yes, shield, favorable winds and minor and major healing, poison and blindness cure... some spells like fireball and magic missile but I only used them when I attacked the fortress. I also have strength and feather fall. And I blow cold, and my claws...That's about it and a few convenience spells for cleaning, cooking and freezing in everyday life...Hans taught me everything but he was out of hibernation for a very long time "
Sarah "Well...we are approaching the site.... Oh my god...the shuttle, its reactor melted and part of the cockpit.."
Kate landed and began to smell a trail...
"It smells like wasp venom!! the trail leads to the East..."
Bello: "you can clearly see the tracks of a caterpillar, here and there and here tracks of a truck... The Vespalians did not drive tanks, did they?
Sarah looked at Kate... "Kate is intelligent like us and she is a talking, reasoning dragon...the Kobolds; the Carno Kobolds...they talk like us and are intelligent species... That's why we have to consider the Vespalians as intelligent as us. It's not the same land anymore, it's like another world..."
Bello followed the trail. "Kate, stay in the air and use the radio to warn us if you see something before us!"
Meanwhile... at the dwarf mines...
A tremor shook the entire dwarf fortress.
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Dwarves in front of the ancestral forges evacuated the area, then a huge white flash...
The rubble rose up and resolidified where it had collapsed, and the cooled lava began to redden rapidly again, and suddenly, as if caught by a flush or a whirlwind, the stone and lava were evacuated. The unremovable plug had vaporized, revealing the rails of the underground train.
