He Adores Me

Chapter 1

Qibli: Qibli always despised the interrogation room. It was the second creepiest room in the Sandwing strong hold (next to the dungeons of course). The room was on the very bottom level of the strong hold, it had a cold stone floor and sandstone walls, there was a door and a table  both made out of light colored wood, and that was basically it. There were four torches illuminating the room making everyone's shadows seem to move on the decoration-less walls.

There were three other dragons in the interrogation room with him: Queen Thorn, Sixclaws, and a criminal from the Scorpion Den, who was being interrogated. The criminal had several scars on his underbelly, back, and face (Qibli assumed that he got them in the war). Even though Sandwings did have dark eyes, his eyes looked almost unnaturally dark. whenever you looked at his eyes it was as if you were staring into a black void with no bottom. His tail was swishing in a constant rhythm as if he were a clock counting down to something. His face was totally blank with no emotions which creeped out Qibli. If Qibli were being interrogated by Queen Thorn herself in this room he would be hyperventilating, but he just stood there with no emotion.

 The criminal had been accused of stealing from a couple of houses in the poorer part of the Scorpion Den. Qibli remembered always trying to stay away from that area of the Scorpion Den when ever he was walking home from the market. Almost everyone who didn't live there avoided it because that was where the really shady dragons hung out and, sold illegal items. The streets there had more garbage then the rest of the Scorpion den and is had a certain scent that smelled of rotting meat and week old coconuts, that repelled most dragons.  Why would he even want to steal from poor dragons Qibli though. If they are living there they must have almost nothing.

Qibli was snapped back into the present when Queen Thorn banged on the table in frustration. Qibli hadn't been listening, but he could infer that Queen Thorn was frustrated because the criminal wouldn't confess (even though there were several witnesses).  The queen took three deep breaths.

"I am going to ask you one more time" she said in a tone that sounded as if she were trying to be calm, but Qibli could hear that anger still slipped through.

"Who did you need to give all of the stolen treasure to" she said in the same tone, Qibli was utterly confused at first (probably because he hadn't been listening for the first half of the interrogation).

Then after a long pause the Criminal said in a completely monotone voice that made Qibli's scales crawl " I already told you that I had to pay off my dept. I bought more camel skin pouches than I needed."

"YOU AND I BOTH KNOW THAT THAT'S A LIE!" screamed Queen Thorn. Qibli took an involuntary step back because of how loud she said it.

Again Qibli looked at the criminal, his face was still blank as if he were a little dragonet being taut a complex math equation. Qibli looked over at Sixclaws who looked equally startled by the lack of reaction from the criminal.

After standing in that room for almost half a day Qibli's talons started to ache, but there wasn't much he could do about that. After a few more minutes of interrogating  Queen thorn finally said that the interrogating was over for the day.

"You two, take this one down to a prison cell" Queen Thorn said gesturing to Qibli and Sixclaws.

"I've had enough of this smoke-breather for today" she said in an exhausted tone. Qibli walked over to the strange Sandwing, and for some reason didn't grab his shoulder immediately like he was suppose to, maybe it was the crawling sensation he got when the criminal was around him. Come on Qibli, your an outclaw, you shouldn't be afraid of this guy, he thought to himself. Then after a moment of hesitation he firmly grabbed the strange Sandwings shoulder. Qibli nearly pulled his talons away again for the criminals scales were strangely cold. He wasn't as cold as an Icewing, he thought, but was definitely colder than most Sandwings were suppose to be. Qibli looked over at Sixclaws who seemed not to have noticed. The strange Sandwing got up, and didn't even struggle. After they left the room he walked as if he all ready knew the way to the dungeons. Qibli and Sixclaws walked to the dungeons in tense silence and began descending into the darkness of the dungeon. All of a sudden, for no apparent,  reason he wished Winter was with him making a snide remark about how hot it was, and how crazy Sandwings were for wanting to live in the desert. For some reason that was the only dragon that Qibli wanted to be around that day.

He was so deep in thought that he didn't even notice when they arrived at the correct cell.

"Qibli" Sixclaws said slightly annoyed.

"Oh" Qibli said suddenly feeling stupid because he had kept walking right past the cell. After Qibli and Sixclaws were out of earshot of the criminal Sixclaws asked in a worried tone.

"Are your okay Qibli? You've been acting kind of weird today."

"Um, yeah" he lied trying to sound as happy as possible.

"So, that guy was weird right" Qibli said trying to change the topic.

"Yeah" agreed Sixclaws.

"He was so...strange, it was like he was possessed by some thing"  Sixclaws said as he pushed open the heavy door leading out of the dungeon. Qibli blinked as his eyes  adjusted to the bright  light flooding in through the large windows. Qibli thought about what Sixclaws had said for a moment, and immediately the thought of Darkstalker making his father do whatever Darkstalker said to do. Qibli shuddered thinking about the massive animus Nightwing. Again right after that thought Winter came into his mind. What is wrong with me today Qibli thought to himself.

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Hi guys this is my first story I really hope you liked it and if you did enjoy the story  you are AWESOME and should go eat some CAKE because you are so AWESOME I should be posting another chapter pretty soon.  By the way isn't Qwinter sooo cute. The next chapter will have MORE Qwinter in it!!! So yeah Make sure to like and also comment about anything okay bye

~TheOutsider76