Duha lives alone by necessity not by choice. The world passes her by for the most part. Her past prevents her from getting close to other yaspilrmeth. The world around her is changing to the point where even she can't hide from it anymore. The Drago...
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I stood there watching Duha talk with Kyros around the fire. "They seem to be getting on."I nodded as Green Dragon came closer. "What holds your attention Red Dragon? Is it wishful thinking?" I shook my head at her. "Then what?"
"Life. She has been badly treated by most people but she is willing to trust. The same goes for Bear, he has been pushed close to his limit of being a bear. He almost succumbed to his primal needs. Reina brought him back from that edge."
She sighed. "I can't help but be jealous of Reina of the Dragon Fire."
I laughed. "Do not be jealous of her. You showed no interest in me until now."
She huffed and then smiled. "You may be right. There is something about this Wolf that is different." You are right but you don't have the first clue what it could be. I nodded. "You know don't you?" She said, smiling at me.
"We are at the crossroads that Reina created. There is a path of light and a path of dark. There is no good or evil here. Only one way or the other. Duha has the dark path in her sights. Reina will pick one of them to walk down and we will follow her. I know this as I saw it."
Green Dragon stared at me in silence. The other Dragons in the earshot also stared. "You leave the fate of the world in the hands of these people?"
I looked at the cluster of stars that represent the ancient one feeling anger at Green Dragon. "What right do we have to say one way or the other? We left them to their lives. The humans endlessly searching for more than they have. The yaspilrmeth trying to be both human and animal. They are the ones who have suffered while we slept safely in our volcano. They were chased and killed. So they are in charge here." The Dragons looked to Kyros and Duha. Both of them were looking at us. "The world turns and we were forgotten. The Dragons fly back into the world, but the world has moved on; we are the past, they are the future. We left things to continue and this is the result."
Bear was muttering to Duha as I spoke. "The future?" Duha stood looking angry. "The humans killed us for years and you fly back into the world and think you have a say? Do any of you think the humans will just leave us in peace? They will continue to do what they always have! They will butcher and fight us every time they think they can win. And you talk so casually about the future! If this vision comes to pass of us living in peace, the humans will try and take it again and again until we own everything!"
"Duha..." Kyros said to her.
"No! Kyanite is right. They slept while our families died. Where were any of you when my home burned to the ground? Where were you when my sister and her family were dragged out of their beds and murdered? What right have you to say we aren't worth saving when we are the ones with blood to repay."
Duha stared at the Dragons as they stared at me waiting to see how I would reply as I translated her words to them.
"You see. This is why we follow Reina. Reina understands where we don't. We can't understand what they went through... what I went through. There is more pain here than you could comprehend."
