The inhabitants of the town received a letter from the municipality. It stated that Poisse le dragon was self-aware and enjoyed the same rights as any other citizen.

That she was free to move where she wanted and that her rights to privacy had to be respected. On the other hand, it was forbidden to approach or bother her because with 25 meters and a certain tonnage, she could not be responsible for an accident or a crash due to carelessness.

Poisse being known to be gentle and kind and to have a human family, one could not evoke criticisms or threats against her, whether out of fear or dread.

Anyone who violated this rule was liable to fines. The dragon also had its own beliefs and had to be respected.

Racism laws also applied to her and her friends. Mom holding a copy of the letter hugged me."Finally... You are free! "

"Yes, Mom. I'll be careful. By the way, do they know?"

"No, not yet... they're thinking of other things... in Victoria... "

She smiled. "What they can say is bullshit, they don't know anything and they come up with nothing but nonsense..."

I would hold mummy close to me.. "I'm afraid of them, of their reaction.... of their religious"...

"I understand you, my little one, no, I should say my big one..."

Sometimes, mommy would come and sleep with me... To reassure herself that I was really me...

"Did you have a fight with Surish?"

"No, not really, but he can't stomach the fact that I'm not angry with you about the child. At the foot of the bed there was a big warming blanket and at night I slept with my egg against me. It was full of black scales with a gold edge. Mama would listen and you could hear swimming in it.

There was a baby and we both sang lullabies to get him used to our voice and to us. I could feel it getting heavier and heavier and growing faster.The mana and the warmth gave life to the egg and Surish surprised us one evening surrounding the egg.

"What is it?" he said. A lamp??? an egg?

"As a reflex, I put my arms and legs around the egg, as if to protect it, and Mom came between Surish and me.

Surish: "Ah... the work... is it for the egg???? It's an egg of what????"

Rosette: "Surish ... we must have..."

But before she speaks he reared up...

"You've taken the egg of the winged serpent! It's black like him. He will come down on our family and we will all be slaughtered! Then he turned to the bas-relief

"Forgive me for offending you, goddess Kadru!"

And he joined his hands.

Rosette: "But, darling, let me explain."

"We're going to give the egg back to the dragon! I'm going right now "

and he pushed his wife aside and wanted to grab the egg from my wrist but my arms were like clamps.

"HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS" I blew angrily, and from the back of my wrist Surish was propelled out of the bed and fell backwards into the room. I had my head in a ball on my egg and he couldn't see the tears. Surish felt my Herculean strength, he had been jostled as he had jostled Mommy, like a straw festoon.

He reached out his hand to me, still on the ground, his butt on the ground, and walked away wondering why. Mom stood up and put her foot on his chest.

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"Don't ever do that again, or I'll leave you. "

"But the dragon.... did you think of us? Of Brahma and Surish?"

"Sylvia is the mother of the egg! Whether you like it or not... that's the way it is!"

"But... But... the dragon!... it's going to devour us!"

She pressed harder, hurting him and he couldn't stand up. I had discreetly cast a force spell on her...

"My daughter IS the dragon!"

He began to cry...

"Please..., Rosette..."

She took off her foot and he stood up, confused...Then he looked at me meanly. He went out, slamming the door

Rosette: "Leave him alone, he'll calm down."

Then mom came back to me and climbed up on the bed and stroked my hair, putting it back in place. Then, one heard shouting in Hindi

"She's possessed! And so is my wife!"

Then Brahma shouted: "Calm down Surish! She's your wife and daughter! You'll be sorry! You offend our gods!"

He slammed the front door and the tires squealed. Mom collapsed in tears. Brahma went up the stairs and knocked on the door.

"Rosette? Sylvia??? what's going on? I've never seen my brother like this."

We went down with her into the dining room, Ankur and Choudary on my lap, their tablet in hand, playing something online. Brahma had his arm on the table, his elbow on the table and was tapping the wood, worried.

"Surish is talking crap now and it's since he found a footprint in the garden. He says there's a monster lurking around the house but I think it's the dragon that must have gone to the river to drink, just passing by and everyone knows he's harmless but you have to understand that with our superstitions..."

Mom put her hand on Brahma's hand."You are my family and I love you all. So does Sylvia.

"Brahma: "He hasn't been the same since the works."

Then she turned to me."Sylvia, look me in the eyes... Are you pregnant?"

Rosette: "No..."Brahma:

"I'm asking Sylvia. Are you pregnant?"

I stood up, overwhelmed... "NO! I'M NOT PREGNANT! I'M NOT PREGNANT! OKAY? AND WHAT DOES IT MATTER TO YOU? I'VE NEVER ASKED YOU ANYTHING! VICTORIA WILL LIVE HERE OR IN FRANCE BUT SHE WILL LIVE WITH ME. NOTHING AND NO ONE WILL COME BETWEEN HER AND ME. "

Surprised by my burst of voice, my 2 cousins ran away behind their mother.

"Oh Sylvia, don't be angry with mom..."

Me, crying."But what have I done to you? My family was massacred and I was disemboweled and I suffered martyrdom just to be able to live in peace. Everything was taken from me, my life, my family.I was lucky to have Rosette as my mom and dad who was taken away from me again. But NO ONE will have my egg!"

Brahma understood nothing. Mommy surrounded me with her arms as if to protect me. Shaikh came and sat down, drawn from the other room by the shouts and sobs.

Rosette: "I'm sorry, Brahma. But you don't know, you have no idea how much she suffered."

Brahma "I'm sorry Sylvia... but we are trying to understand. We're in over our heads."

Rosette, do you have any idea where Surish would have gone?

"To see her cousins in the neighboring state or near the temple, to see her Brahmin friends..."

Brahma: "And what's this story about Victoria and an egg?"

Mom: "Sylvia, let me fix it... say no more..."

"Yes, Ma."

Mom: "Brahma... Why are you vegans???

""What's that got to do with it?"Exactly... explain to Sylvia why you don't eat meat... The real reason. It's very important."

Brahma "When an ancestor or family member leaves this world, sometimes they come back to life as an animal or a human. So, in order not to cause a second drama, we refuse the meat. The animal could be the host of the deceased."

Rosette: "Good!. Sylvia remembers her previous life. She remembers everything! In fact, her body is not dead but her soul is reincarnated in Sylvia. But her body reappeared and was returned to her. Sylvia has 2 bodies now. And Victoria is her egg. It is her child. She is by right her mother. Even if Sylvia is not pregnant, she is still the mother of her child."

Brahma: "But that doesn't make sense! It's religion!"

Rosette: "Exactly: You argue with religion when it suits you, and you deny it when it suits you. But the only certainty is that Sylvia is my daughter and no matter what she was or still is, I love her and I will always be her mother."

Shaikh: "Calm down, Brahma .Rosette, why all the fuss, and what's the egg you're talking about and who is Victoria. I know you say it's Sylvia's child but we don't understand... it doesn't make any sense. Humans don't lay!"

Me, whispering... "I'm Poisse... "

Everyone turned their head at the table .Brahma lowered his head. So did Surish. They thought we were desperate, out of reality.

Shaikh stood up, excited and turned on the TV. He sat down in the armchair in the common living room and watched the news. On the picture, he saw the dragon but he also recognized Dany kissing the dragon! He let go of the remote control and turned his head towards me, the rooms were next to each other, without separation, just a sliding shutter but it was open.

He saw me sitting at the table with mom and Brahma. He got up, took the children by force without saying anything, made them sit in the car and then came back and took Brahma by the wrist.

"It's the devil! Let's run away! "

he said in Hindi. Brahma withdrew his hand.

"Idiot!"

Brahma looked me straight in the eyes."WHO ARE YOU?" I got up and walked out of the house into the front yard.I took off my clothes and naked in front of Brahma and Mom, I folded my things carefully. Shaikh, who was in the car, looked at me shamelessly. Then I got down on all fours and the transformation into Poisse was almost instantaneous. Brahma fell to the ground with his hands in the air imploring his gods. Shaikh wanted to drive the car at me but with a back leg, she was pushed back.

"SKRIIIIIIIIIIIIIISHHHHHHHHHHHH" I said angrily!I did nothing, the children in the car.They were screaming, terrified.

I could see that it was turning into a complete mess.

Villagers arrived with torches, dozens of them accompanied by fanatical Hindu priests, pitchforks and some with guns.

Immediately, I threw a shield at mom and then at myself and I smashed the roof, took my egg and took mom in my claws and we flew to the barracks.

I landed in the yard, mom screaming and panicked. I was crying."Help," I cried.

The police rushed into the yard, surprised in the middle of the night. My mom was in shock. One of the men grabbed mom under a blanket and tried to get her to safety but mom was clinging to me.

"Don't hurt her... She's my little girl!"

didn't move, lying in the yard.

Mom: "They are everywhere! They came with torches and axes and guns. They want to set the house on fire."

Me: "Help. . . Protect mom!"

The men didn't understand but closed the accesses to the yard and a stretcher was brought to Mommy to lie on, protected by my wing. We waited until the next morning for everything to calm down.

Around 8:00 a.m., Mars arrived in the barracks.

"What's going on? What's all the racket?"

It's Mrs. Bengali. She has fled from rioters and peasants armed with pitchforks and Brahmin fanatics. reported an officer.Did the dragon do anything? No, she called for help and asked for protection.They are in the courtyard.

Mars: "No one gets in!"