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

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Florinne was not going to back down.

But the policemen pushed her back. Then she shouted loudly "There is a baby dragon!!!"

This did not escape my keen hearing, I was concerned to estimate the damage to the farm and to find a trace or a clue but my knowledge of magic was limited and could bring absolutely nothing but trouble.

Papa Exodus, on the other hand, could do something but it was a trap to make us use magic and thus fall into a provocation. That was the way it was.

I saw the inspector who had finished with Valtrax and Dad and headed for the entrance.

I was still in anthro and then I went full human, teenager, what have you.

Rubix landed behind me and turned into a human anthro, his front paw on my shoulder, all teary-eyed.

The policemen let me pass and the next moment I was in front of Florinne.

She was impressed by the presence of Rubix and his big teeth. It was the first time she had seen a dragon in the flesh.

"Hello Madam... I heard you screaming but you come at the worst possible time.

The inspector gave me the stink-eye, silent style.

And the woman looked around and saw the horses with their throats cut... and all that blood...

By stupid reflex, she was afraid, thinking it was a draconic rage or a psychopathic rage of a dangerous animal, i.e. a dragon.

"Don't be afraid, madam, the police are here and they are investigating the massacre of our animals.

She put her nose and mouth to the spectacle and was glad she had not taken her daughters and Zat with her.

She then showed me a picture on her smartphone, of a little dragon, playing a game of goose with her daughter.

I made big eyes?

"AH!...but...oh!..what's that? But I recognized the capes and symbols of Sosaria on the chair in the background."

I moved closer to the screen.

Of course, I had my smarphone and I was used to human life here... well almost... we were still "Middle-aged" according to some experts but we were evolving fast...

"Who is this? What is this???"

Obviously I didn't know anything about draconic culture and I only knew about the Kobolds from the museum in Britannia.

Florinne: "His name is Zat and he has brothers and sisters and they fled Sosaria... and they followed Valtrax, their Mistress. "

"Valtrax... Mum?"

Florinne looked me up and down..

"Valtrax is a dragon and your mum??? and she never told you about Zat or the Kobolds? Besides, what's a Kobold and what's all this about slavery???"

"I... I..."

Rubix grabbed the smarphone and looked... "No... never seen... but Mummy Valtrax... maybe knows?"

Florinne was scared to death...

Blood,

Rubix in Anthro... Super scary... She felt like she was talking to a dinosaur, an allosaur or a raptor or something with a tail, horns and big teeth.

In the distance, Valtrax looked like a mountain to her. Everything was distorted by fear,

It's like arachnophobia, where spiders suddenly seem huge.

"I'm going to talk to Mum."

Florinne: "No... I'm afraid... I'll go..."

"Then lend me your smartphone, I'll show the picture to mum.."

Florinne was reassured by my delicacy and respect for her fears.

But she was afraid of Rubix who was sitting on a low wall a few metres away, talking to a policewoman.

She was crying like a child. Rubix was still a bit of a child after all, especially since we have only been "materialized for a short time". In fact, we were all children, even babies, but we ignored it... well, we tried to ignore it, we pretended. It was too hard to accept and that was also the reason for the imaginary pregnancies...and the disappointment that came with it.

The ordeals, and now this drama, was like a Mix of Misfortune, as if Karma was making us pay for our ticket into this world... Yes... maybe that was it...

Mum started to cry...

And she raised her head, but also with joy...

"Grim... my darling... you are here... I feel it...."

Then she turned her head towards me. "Torin... Grim is here! that's great!!!! the Kobolds are here! Ah.. my little Kobolds... how proud I am of them!!!"

Valtrax dried her tears... with a flick of her paw.

"Torin, the Kobolds must come here... we must protect them.... they are so small, so vulnerable...I am afraid for them but they will be happy here with us.."

Then I ran over and Florinne had sat down next to Rubix, being a little less scared, and seeing that she was also behaving like a human, crying for her mum and dad and her friend, little Felix but she couldn't tell Florinne anything.

The inspector's words were well engraved in her head.

Then I arrived, handing over the phone.

"Madam, Florinne I think, Yes... Mum knows the Kobolds... She loves them and wants them to come here to take refuge... They are small and fragile... and they must live under the protection of the dragons..."

"Mr. Torin... I think you and I are thinking of the good of little Zat... but where you come from, I know there were slaves and Zat was one!... I don't want him to be subjected to such humiliation again. He will live free.