Maziar, son of a warlord and head of the orphanage, stretched his foot so that Azur could lick it and Azur did it. He received his foot and had a broken nose.
"For my father!.." Obviously not understanding, the children each showed a picture of their parent who was a victim of the dragons(weredragons)
They quickly understood and put themselves in a position of supplication. They began to whine and cry. The sun was burning their skin and slowly they tried to stand to walk.
Outside, the desert, stray dogs and no water. They were given bags of potatoes with holes in them so that they would stop having their sex in the air, which was frowned upon.
Now the hunger cut them down and they threw themselves at a smaller child who put a cuff on them and Maziar made them eat sand as punishment.
Azur found a plate and took the plate as a plea. Finally it was a stoned aluminium dog bowl, an old hubcap it seems.
Myriam then gave them a kind of mashed potatoes with leftover chicken meat and a piece of unleavened bread. She waved to the bricks. "Work, eat"
"No work, no eating"
The 2 ex dragons rushed to the bowl and swallowed the foul mixture like a treasure without leaving a crumb. They did it again with the bowl, but Myriam showed the bricks.
Ricardo picked up bricks and gave them each 2 bricks because they were hungry and could no longer carry and he took them to the hot oven and put the brick on a pile and made the gesture: " it is your turn!"
Azur understood the slave work that awaited them.
Then, barefoot under an anvil sun with a stinking jute cloth the 2 children started to come and go from carrying bricks. They quickly understood the misery they were in.
The other children settled in and played together and had fun watching them. For fun, they had taken soft bricks and shaped them into small sharp, sharp pyramids and threw the heated chips in their path so they could hurt their feet with them.
The suffering was unheard of.
Very quickly they collapsed due to lack of stamina and especially lack of calories. They crawled at mealtime to Myriam who poured a ladle of infamous purée into a wooden bowl.
As soon as they passed their turn, they were pushed and Maziar took the bowl of Azure and poured it on the ground in the sand.
Azur groaned and wanted to throw himself at Maziar but he kicked him in the parts and Azur screamed and cried. The children laughed and Ochria was thrown to the ground and her face was crushed in her bowl and the children poured ants they had caught for the occasion.
They screamed and were calmed down by the children with karcher.
They queued up again near Myriam to get some food back, but she told them "No", "Work!"
They were cooked and let themselves go from exhaustion, feverish in the sun, desperate.
I felt that they were "right on time".
I was allowed to leave the base to take care of them at the orphanage.
I saw 2 broken rags flying over the area and the orphaned children were terrified.
So I landed in the courtyard in front of Azur and Ochria. Their eyes were a mixture of hatred and relief.
They couldn't communicate with me. I served them drinks and gave them kebab and they pounced on it and took refuge under my wings against the sun.
Then I took a bucket and a sponge and with soap, I scraped it off and then combed Ochria's tousled hair.
They looked like something else. I gave each of them a pair of sandals and clean linens.
They began to beg me by crawling in front of me. I then cast the message spell on them.
"Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, please, get us out of here, we won't do it anymore... Why did you do this to us? Please give us back our form!"
I: "Azur, Ochria,... You are my family and I love you."
"How can you do this to us? If you say you love us" begged Ochria
"Look at us!"
Me: "I see two beautiful children! Now, sit down and listen!
I am not the one who transformed you and I am unable to make you look the way you did! My biggest spell is fireball and message"
Azure: "BUT BUT..."
I said, "Chttt! If I had the upper hand, it was because I had and I have Grandmother Tiamat's support! Our goddess. She loves you too, but your training is pathetic, your soul is horrible, worse than garbage and you should have been killed and devoured. But I pleaded and begged Tiamat to spare you because I wanted to have a real little dragon brother and a real little sister.
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Your mind is confused by a total lack of values, landmarks and notions of right and wrong. Evil is eating away at you without knowing it and you are becoming animal brutes. In the end you were going to become like spiders and our mother who is completely insane would have made you kill each other."
Ochria: " Its not true"
Azure: "You're lying!"
Me: "Azur, your number one problem is that you don't yet know the true value of life. Everyone your mother and clan slaughtered worked hard to get one piece of bread, and to raise children. Look at the hatred they have for you. You only owe life to your regeneration, which I begged to be left with you.
The children don't have that regeneration you have. You live while many have gone through or you have gone through. But you still have to learn here! "
Azure: "No, please, big sister, get us out of here!"
Me:" Oh, good because I'm a big sister now? Since when have I been part of your family?
Aahh... Yes, I don't think you know what a family is.
You know Azur, and you, Ochria, I was a child like you, sick, dying and scratching to survive, for nothing but to be able to play, love and be loved.
Then our mother massacred and cowardly murdered my family that I loved so much and who loved me, and I fought to heal myself. They never knew if I had made it out. I died and saved the egg by giving my life. Then our mother slaughtered my adopted family who had accepted me as a dragon and cherished me. I would have given my life to save them...
Every member of our family is able to give their life to save even one member, to give an eye, a kidney or to sacrifice themselves.
And what do you know about the term family?
And what do you know at all? Besides eating, sleeping, killing and maybe hunting and hurting?
You can't even talk to each other or ask for the base."
First you will live like them! and learn from them! Then I will come and see if you have learned anything.
I can't take you from here even if I wanted to. You are also prisoners who must serve a sentence. For my part, I am fighting administratively to adopt you and bring you back home."
Azur : "You're not going to leave us here?"
I said, "Do you think I have a choice? I'm also a prisoner! And I'm on leave! The USA is not Europe and if you had remained dragons, you would have been cut up in a laboratory or simply executed."
Ochria: "I want to see Mommy, (crying)"
Me: "Oh, well, let's talk about your mother. Where is she? Where is she? Do you think she cares about you? No, she's worried about her!
I'll be back as soon as I can! I promise!"
Ochria: "Sorry Ruby!"
Azure: "I'm sorry I bit you!"
Me: "I don't blame you anymore but it's a good start. I would have liked to hug you so much and I really wanted to play with you with all my heart. But it's ruined! Well, since we have eternity... We'll find a way if and only if you have the will."
Azure: "Please, get us out of here!"
I said, "It's up to you! Accept your punishment and learn to love each other already to begin if you know what love is. In short, it's the opposite of what they do to you! And I can't interfere."
I spoke to the director of the establishment to tell them that you were 100% human and that I was the one who gave them the regeneration to survive the blows. And that they knew nothing about right or wrong and that everything was their mother's fault. I asked that they be taught at least hygiene, and the basics of language. I paid for a teacher of French and English and that they have a catechism course for their baptism.
The MPs told me that I had to go back to base and report back.
I caressed the two ex-dragons and flew away, leaving them crying behind me.
The next day their sandals were stolen and their clothes torn into shapeless rags.
And they resumed the work of making bricks.
Then a man with a long wand came along and said: "Young dragons, HERE!"
They crawled at the feet of the man who told them: you are human beings now! Standing up! And he pointed them under the chin with the stick so that they would stand up straight!
Then he took them into a room with a painting and showed them a children's book with pictures.
"E" - "EAR"
and the teacher made them pronounce E and Ear and thus all parts of the alphabet.
They were taught the first ways, how to go to the toilet, how to wipe, wash and wash their hands and how to dress and wash their belongings.
They scratched to get out of it because they knew it was the bricks or the school.
As they stood up straight and began to behave like humans, the tension dropped noticeably.
The blows dropped and they were able to eat by standing up straight. But they became Maziar's all-purpose slaves. They brought Maziar drinks, and they washed his things and all kinds of unimaginable services. Shine shoes, sweep the yard.
Finally, they were allowed to eat. And they learned quickly, very quickly to say hello, hello Master Maziar and Mistress Myriam and Master for their teacher.
Maziar allowed them to wear sandals and they were able to keep their clothes intact for once.
They didn't lose a crumb of food and didn't dare look anyone in the eye to avoid any provocation.
A month passed.
On my side I was in semi-freedom waiting for a decision on my fate then an American egg-beater, a member of the order and especially a high ranking NATO officer came to question me and judge me.
Commander Olivia, in charge of the US forces in this area, arrived. And she thought she was seeing a wild beast but I had a veil and I was dressed as a colonial Saharan and when she entered, I stood at attention to you as an officer of the order but not of the army. But the first impression must always be the best.
I had a stick with the flag but it was used to help me stand more or less upright. She quickly understood why and didn't ask me any questions. I didn't dare look her in the eye.
"Hello Emily, I'm Major Olivia. I suppose you know why I'm here!"
"NO, sir!"
Olivia: "Dismissed!"
"Thank you, sir."
And I returned to a less uncomfortable position.
Olivia: "I'm here to... you... to meet you!"
"Thank you, sir!"
Olivia:" I read your story and your exploits. I see you're fighting for humanity, but I have several questions that bother me. Are you a dragon or are you a human?"
I said, "I don't know. I was human but now I am what you would have judged I am!"
Olivia: "Good! I see you're reasonable at least.
Another question: You do magic and it's dangerous. Why would we leave you out in the wild with such powers?"
Me: "I know light, and people can buy a flashlight. Magic Missile: you can find pocket crossbows at Walmart and fireball, almost all Americans have a gun or a pistol, I have a message and you have walkie-talkies. And I have minor care and in every car, there are first aid kits..."
Olivia remained thoughtful and laughed!
"Emily, don't you forget some?"
"Ah, shield, well, bulletproof vests????"
Olivia: "You made me laugh.
You can sit down! I came as a friend because you respected your confinement to the letter but we have to take responsibility and many of us fear you.
But you managed to repel an attack from your mother and you smashed 10 dragons, turned 2 dragons into children, which bothers us a little because children have rights while dragons have none.
What do you want to do with them? I saw your adoption application."
Me: "I brooded them too and they are victims of being what they are. They are human now."
Olivia: "But how do I know you're not going to turn them back into dragons and make more dragons like your mother?"?
I "I didn't do anything! I prayed and shouted for help to my grandmother, who is also our goddess and it was she who injected her strength into my breath to RESIST the mother's breath and it was she who transformed them! not me! If I could, I'd like to be in their place in a human body."
Olivia: "Okay... I understand, but if you pray to blow up the planet, will it do it?"
I said, "I can pray in the cell for that too, you know!"
Olivia: "But you wrote us a mystical gibberish about magic... and it doesn't work!"
Me: "Let's try it: Lend me your hand and concentrate! Imagine you have a flashlight. Close your eyes and open them again!"
Light was emanating from olivia's hand, but as soon as I took my paw off, everything went out.
I said, "Do you understand? It's like running an electric motor without batteries or electricity. Humans don't have enough power. That' s it!"
It's the same for everything! And my absolute fate will be to become human again one day...
Olivia: "Why do you want to become human again?"
Me: "I also have needs, you know, blushing. And I have a lifetime of outings and shopping to catch up on!"
Olivia: "I don't have any questions, but what are you going to do? "
"The papers for Azur and Ochria, make sure they go in the right direction and my scientific expedition!"
Olivia: "You're free and don't forget to go through the bases on your trips!"
I said, "Thank you, Commander!"