Florian entered the house and was led to the living room.

He sat on one of the couch, with Orion sitting in front of him.

"What kind of news do you have for me?"

Asking carefully, Florian began to talk.

"I've managed to obtain your audience with the queen. The moment I said that the last survivor of both demons and angels required some words with her, she agreed."

Orion was glad that everything went accordingly.

His expression relaxed and he began to talk.

"Is there something special I need to prepare or do when seeing her?"

"Try not to disrespect her too much. Her mood can change at a moment's notice."

'What is she? A child?'

It seemed that his thoughts were so loud that Florian read it on his face. With a smile, he seemed to agree.

"Anyway, she gave you two days to come and see her. No more, no less. After that, you will not have another window to see her."

"Alright, I'll go meet her in two days. There's somewhere we have to go before that."

Pushing his glasses back on his nose, Florian was curious.

"Where is that? I don't mean to pry, I am simply curious."

"Seeing the dragons. There's a matter related to the lamias we need to ask them."

An audible gulping sound could be heard from him.

"The dragons? I-I see."

Tension could be heard in his voice, and his hands began to slightly shake.

"Did something happened between you and the dragons? The only moment the dragons appeared was when Monolavir came out of the mountains."

This was the moment for Florian to explain a little bit about the past.

"Exactly. Twenty years ago, Eric and I had to defend Albriar. We were young at that time, and we both received the status of Apostle only recently."

"The Azur Dragon, Monolavir, as we heard its name in our head when we asked it, was enraged at that time. It did not gave us any time to explain ourselves."

"Since we were Apostles, he might have thought that we were helping the culprit hide what he was looking for."

"Most of us did not understand why it suddenly attacked until the very end. If that imbecile of Kelvin had not lost his mind, the situation would have been pretty manageable."

"Anyway, Eric and I managed to slightly injure the Azur Dragon, before its red blood eyes turn blue again. It looked at use for a moment, and looked south east, where it instantly flew to."

Orion noticed the shaking of Florian's hands, and imagined how difficult fighting a dragon, a faction you only heard in books, could be.

Though, he himself could beat the dragons to a pulp because of his speed and reaction time. And he though that Florian could be able to beat a few dragons by himself if he tried.

But Monolavir and Ruminona were a completely different stage of power. It was more refined, and more deadly.

Imagining the deadly ice mutation of his being sent on human cities, no wonder Kelvin's city burned and disappeared.

"I have a proposition. Do you want to come with us?"

"To see the dragons?!"

Shock completely took over his face.

"I don't know about that. Aren't they pretty aggressive toward humans?"

"That's for you to see."

'He lost his composure, and his careful way of speaking at the same time. I think that's how he speaks usually.'

"Can I think about it?"

"Of course. I'm moving alone toward the Talviera Mountain Range tomorrow morning, and should arrive around noon. If when I come back, I don't see you, I'll take it as a refusal. It won't change our situation, so you can refuse."

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Florian let out a sigh of relief.

"Thank you. I'll carefully think over this matter tonight."

With that, Florian stood up from the couch.

"I've told you about the queen, so I will take my leave now."

"Right."

Orion stood up too, and led him toward the exit.

"Alright, have a good night."

"Likewise."

Both men shook hands, with Florian returning to Lahro.

After closing the door, Orion walked inside the dining room, and walked inside the kitchen.

'Monolavir sure did scare the humans greatly during his only apparition.'

'I wonder if something could be done to change that too.'

"Your coffee is already done."

A sudden voice took him by surprise as he was in deep thought.

He turned to look at the voice, who was sitting at the table of the dining room.

"It's rare for you to not pay attention to us."

Amelia and Karteira were both at the table, with a plate of snacks in front of them.

He heard giggles coming from Amelia, while Karteira was showing him with a smile a cup of coffee that was on the table.

"Sorry, I was thinking. You didn't have to though, thank you."

Walking to his usual seat, he dragged the chair back and sat next to Amelia.

"Where are the girls? I thought they were with you?"

Karteira looked outside the window.

"They, mostly Drania, decided to fly around the whole space. You don't have to worry about them."

'If they're having fun, then all is well.'

He took a sip of his coffee quietly.

They both stared at him, who was enjoying the hot coffee.

"Did you change the flow of time back to how it was before?"

With a nod, Orion placed his cup on the table.

"Yes, there is no reason to keep it going normally when we don't have to waste the night."

Amelia took one of the snacks on the plate and ate it.

"And what about the dragons? We heard it you know? Why did you propose such a thing to that man?"

"Because he was terrified."

"That's all?"

"That's all."

"Are you serious? There was nothing else in your mind at that moment? Just because he was terrified of the dragons, you told him to come?"

The dumbfounded expression on both faces were priceless.

"If I want to help the factions to coexist between each others, then the matter with the dragons is another that needs to be resolved. And to do that, humans need to learn to fear the dragons, and yet to accept their neutral nature."

"Currently, they don't fear them, they are terrorized of them. They think that the dragons could erase the whole human faction."

"They need to learn that they don't care about other factions, that what happened was simply retaliation from a mistake someone made."

Only Amelia understood where he was going at. Karteira only heard about the dragons, and never saw them to fully understand.

"So, what do we do? Who do we take with us?"

"Nothing's changed, except that we take Florian, and the sisters with us."

"Everyone then. Alright."

Amelia took another snack, but this time, she gave it to Orion.

"Here, let's stop with the heavy conversation."

With a quick glance over what she proposed to him, he saw that it was a cracker. He took it and ate it.

"I made that myself, how is it?"

As he was still eating it, he simply made a thumbs up.

Once he was done, there was one remaining thing to know.

"Karteira, what about the seed?"

"Eh? Ah! Mother's seed? Amelia and I have already decided where to plant it."

"Yes, we're going to plant it further away from the house, on its right side. That should help us plant trees over the place, right?"

"That's what Tiohr-nam said, so we can only trust her words."

Orion took another sip of coffee, and gave his plans for the time he was going to spend inside Horizon.

"We'll slowly build the space to be more natural, while we focus on what have to be done outside. Does that sound good to you?"

"There's no problem with that."

"I have no problem with that either."

"Alright then. Tomorrow, we take the day off, but after that, it's back to Triazils."

They both didn't understand why he decided to take only one day off, until they remembered who was here.

"You want to spend one day with them?"

"It has been a while, and I was pretty worried when we let them go. So I want to spend time with them."

There was a bright, warm smiled on his face.

'Treasuring his friends, that's how it should be.'

Closing her eyes and laying her back on her chair, Amelia stayed silent.

"I also want to train a bit."

'Here it is!'

She made a sarcastic smile, and looked at Karteira, who almost fell down her chair from the sudden realization that he just wanted to train, and used the sisters as an excuse.

"Anyway, it's getting late. I'll be in my room if you need me. Be sure to show the girls their room when they return."

He downed the remaining of his coffee, stood up and walked in the kitchen to clean the cup. After that, he walked to the door leading to the corridor, looked at the girls, and waved before closing the door behind him.

"..."

"Damn, we missed our chance to flirt with him."

Amelia was biting her lips in frustration.

"I never said I was going to do that, you know."

Karteira was pretty happy it didn't happen.

'I should go see mother at some point, maybe she will have words to help me make up my mind.'

They both stayed in silence, eating the remaining of the snacks, until the sisters came back.

"Sis, I'm tired!"

"That's why I told you not to fly that fast. It's your own fault."

They heard the door opened, and their voices coming from the entrance.

Amelia stood up and opened the door.

"Welcome back."

Dramia nodded, as she was supporting her sister by holding her arm.

We're back, but I'm tired."

Drania was completely drained of energy, a rare occurrence.

"Orion already said that you could take the first room on your left upstairs as your room. You can also take a shower before going to sleep."

"I'll go to sleep now. Shower tomorrow."

"It's like that. Good night, both of you."

After saying that, Dramia dragged her sister upstairs, and no sound was heard again.

"Well, I thought we could talk a little, but since they're tired."

With a shrug, Amelia turned around and sat back in front of Karteira.

"We should go to sleep too. You know what happens if you're tired when Orion wants to train with you."

They both shuddered.

"Yes, I'll go first."

Karteira stood up, and walked in the corridor.

"Don't take too long either."

"Don't worry. Good night Karteira."

"You too."

With that, the girls separated, leaving Amelia alone in the dining room.

'I really wanted to flirt with him though.'

With the bitterness of failure, Amelia cleaned the plate of the table, and returned to her room.