You Are My Salvation

Chapter Four

The cute little puppy stared at me with those doe eyes as I tried to make sense of what was happening right now. As I had guessed, a few servants hustled in, wondering what had happened for me to be so startled.

"Is everything alright, Miss?" I quickly pulled the covers over the puppy beside me as the lady came in to check up on me.

"Yes, everything is going just fine," I forced a chuckle in my voice and watched the lady exit my bedroom before pulling the sheets back again.

The puppy was still staring back at, but this time with precaution and looked around the room for any threats. I huffed and gave it small pat on the head as I turned the question around in my head. Who had brought me this puppy? I knew for a fact the servants didn't know, so who was it?

I lay back down with my hand still rubbing the small animal's forehead. If this was a present to me, but with no collar or tag, I needed to give it a name. I studied the petite animal and its attributes, possibly some characteristics that were visible on him.

A long tail and ears, probably has very keen hearing. He seemed to really like to wonder off in various place, very adventurous. His fur was of a golden brown hue and it sure resembled the first rays of sunshine at dawn.

"Dawn," I looked at him as I called his new name and he looked back at me with those wondrous eyes.

I gave it a smile and gave him one last pat on the head before jumping out of bed. Preparing some questions and getting ready for the second day of being here. And I couldn't help but wonder what indigenous tasks the twins were going to assign me today.

…

"You need to train." I gaped at Kain, not believing what my first task was. He was definitely serious about this, but was he insane? I couldn't train even if my life depended on it.

"What? Are you stupid or oblivious? I can't do anything with this foot of mine and before you suggest anything. No, you are definitely not healing it with your absurd, Immortal powers," I growled and stuffed another piece of fruit in my mouth.

Arcon growled and piped in for his brother, "but in order for you to train, you need our 'absurd, Immortal powers' to heal it. You don't even know the dangers that exist here!" I fell silent. He was right and I couldn't help but burn up in shame.

"Fine, do what you need to do, but first give me a history lesson on whatever you guys are," I responded instead, thinking back to last night and the events that had taken place.

Kain instantly lit up and took it upon himself to describe what they were. "Fair enough and our race is Shilvarian." I rolled my eyes and gestured for him to continue.

"As a Shilvare Dragon, we are able to shape shift into a dragon, but we can only do so every once in a while because it drains our energy a lot. All Immortals have a power, whether it be shape shifting or some natural element. As a tradition, our race always has disagreements with the Veria race, whether it be over territory or people. Who knows? Verians are basically dragon riders and most of them have the gifts of the four natural elements, you follow?" I looked at him and nodded reluctantly, narrowly  understanding.

"And then, you have the wild dragons, the dragons that need to be tamed, but only exist in our lands, understand?" I nodded, "now, there is a difference between wild dragons and us. The wild dragons have a well adapted tail that has venom constantly coating its tail, we need to modify our tails artificially, so we don't get poisoned in battle. Naturally, that makes us slower but stronger." He looked at me expectantly, possibly waiting for a form of life from me. I took a bite of the bread and waited for him to continue.