Glaurung and Galrauch accompanied Grandma on the train and she had on long dresses and wide shoes with gaiters that went up to the knees and hunter's gloves that went up to the elbow and hid the wing membrane. They also had sunglasses and looked like 2 fairy tale princesses.
No one on the train noticed their difference. The seams were remarkable and Grandma could adapt the human clothing for them quite easily. This reassured them greatly. They stopped grumbling and spoke only French with Grandma.
They were in a sleeper train and they enjoyed the comfort of human life.
They avoided talking about where they came from and the next day they arrived at the Guillemins station, an ultra modern structure made by a famous Spanish designer architect. It looks like the skeleton of a sea animal or a chrysalis. But it is beautiful but poorly heated, but at least everyone is protected from the rain with the huge glass roof.
Angélique, my cousin was waiting for us when we came down from the dock and she was very smiling with her beautiful curly hair. But as she got older, she would have put it in a bun but she could have put it more prominently.
"Oh how beautiful the girls are (she avoided talking about dragons), Oh, what a beautiful dress! You are Glaurung and you Galrauch? We're going to go to the commune to look for your identity papers, as you're going to live here."
We went to the police hotel and the lady asked to take off the glasses and said Ah! surprise and pretended not to be surprised. She made big eyes at her colleague of the Regaaaarde style!" These are theeem.....terrified."
Voilaa, here are your fingerprints and Ahh it doesn't work... we're going to do it the old fashioned way with ink.
And the claws were colored blue...
Voillaa, it's over, you have beautiful eyes, you know?
...
Then they went to my cousin's house. A beautiful villa on the edge of the city served by the bus and with elementary school nearby with pre-primary or former nursery school.
But the size of the two halves was that of a elementary school.
We waited until the next school year to get them used to group work, crafts and human awakening.
They were spared the entrance to school right away, the time to settle down.
They each had their own room but they preferred to sleep together.
They were bathed with soap and manicure and it was quite a story. There was no more question of going to pee in the open or going on an errand in the air. No more question of having the buttocks in the air while showing the long tail but to get dressed.
Mamy anny took back old clothes and took out her sewing machine and retouched with Angelique all the little shirt panties and all your evenings of the week were spent trying on clothes and seeing what was matching.
For the shoes, she stretched specially made by a shoemaker and the sole was divided into 3 parts for the 3 toes and the bottom molded in macrolon as for the cutting boards.
The tail sword was in a scabbard tied with red or orange ribbon and the nose scales were softened with sticky foundation and were hardly visible.
The scales did not grow as they did for their sisters because of Tiamat.
Every night she prayed to God and Tiamat. But they were afraid of her, especially of her dragon shape.
Then came the nightmares and she saw the shadows as deep water in a swimming pool or in the sea. All you had to do was dive in and they would come in. But since it was a dragon thing, it was taboo and scary.
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Tiamat would hear their prayers and she would cry that she couldn't help them.
Angelique once asked who it was and when she heard about it, she was scared. The children protested that she was nice and Grandma Anny said yes, but she was afraid too.
She was absorbing more and more human habits and behaviors.
Then she was dropped off at the nursery school.
Children are sometimes cruel at this age, but there were all kinds of ethnic groups and the teacher insisted on accepting the differences.
Ali got up on the chair and said, my family is Muslim and we are of Moroccan origin, my parents were minors here.
Maziar got up on the chair and said, I am Iranian. My parents fled the war
Tamara: I am an orphan from Vietnam and my parents adopted me.
Xing, my parents fled communism, I am of Chinese origin.
Alexei, I am of Russian origin, my parents work here.
Sedat : I am of Armenian origin.
Amorie : I am Amerindian.
Then it was the turn of Glaurung and Galrauch.
They took off their gloves, showed their winged forelegs and said, "We are half-dragons. We ran away from our parents and sisters. They are monsters. Have mercy on us. We want to remain human but we can't cut off our tails and legs. Sorry we are different. But Galrauch was not sharing this opinion..
The teacher hugged them.
"My poor little ones. Here you have nothing to fear. There are swarthy, red, white, black and yellow skins, and now scaled.
Welcome to the school."
All the children said" WELCOME Glaurung and Galrauch."
Soon afterwards there were chases and lots of activities but the teacher insisted: "NO TALKING ABOUT DRAGON to the dragons!!. STRICTLY!"
Little by little they got used to it and did not reject their physical appearance, which in itself was not ugly, on the contrary. They became more beautiful and at the pool they were excellent swimmers but always tried to reject their nature. Kiss, Crawl, but no tail movement.
They no longer tried to fly and led a perfectly normal life. Then, it was the big vacations and the dreaded moment. The visit...
Every week they received letters of forgiveness and drawings with hearts, but Glaurung was impassive. Galrauch was sad. She dreamed that it was all just a bad memory. But that was the way it was.
Galrauch was immersed in her books where she would escape and dream of being Prince Charming who would slay the evil dragon.
Ding dong! Angelique and her husband had set the table and brought pies and pastries to taste. And who was at the door?
Me, as a human.
GLAURUNG saw me and screamed and went to hide under the table. THE MONSTER IS HERE THE MONSTER IS HERE THE MONSTER IS HERE THE MONSTER IS HERE.
I knelt down and cast the spell of appeasement.
But
THE MONSTER IS HERE
THE MONSTER IS HERE.
HE'S COMING TO GET ME
TATTYYY IE HELP! HE'S GOING TO KILL ME HE'S GOING TO KILL ME
NAAAANN
HELP HELP.
She shouted so loudly that the neighbors came out and one of them rang to help the girl.
Angelique answered them kindly that she was having a traumatic breakdown.
I had to go out of the room and Galrauch jumped on me: DAD!
"How are you? I asked."
"Any news about Papa Oriharukon?"
I lowered my head. "All we know is that he is being held in a secret military base."
He must be asleep because he would have already signaled... but we're not giving up hope.
Your sisters are fine and they are starting to spit fire and ice.
Those who can make ice cream practice making ice cream They miss you. Do you want them to come here? Finally during the vacations, we would rent a house and we would all go to the sea, of course Glaurung would go somewhere else with her human cousins? Would you like that?
Galrauch, why be nicer to us all of a sudden? We've never been mean to you. Look at the tablet, there's a Messenger app on it and they want to wish you happy birthday! Galrauch cried because she was torn between her half-crazy sister and her other sisters who missed her a little bit. "Ok, I'll make an effort dad."
You want to fly a little bit with me? There's a beautiful valley here and near arlon, where we hibernated. I know the whole area here and all the ruins, I've known them all. Besides I have a friend here, Professor Prius. He knows a lot of stories.
And did you train to fly?
she did not answer
And you like pokémons?
Yes dad. So you talk to animals?
No answer.
And do you know how to make pokéballs?
No answer.
Ah, I said. Without blaming her or making her feel guilty.
But from a sharp eye, I saw Glaurung spying on us with eyes full of hatred, hiding behind a post, about fifteen meters away from us who were sitting on the stairs in front of the house. Then I said to Galrauch, She is behind us, she is spying on us. You can go, I'll stay here and then I'll come and have a snack with my cousin. The age difference between her and me was huge. She could have been my aunt. We were 35 years apart...
I'm saying this quietly, without turning around. In Glaurung, we miss you my darling, you don't know how much we love you.
She ran away to the attic shouting: Monsters. and one heard her small claws slamming on the wood of the stairs going up to the floor. Slam (door slamming) then muffled Hii ii hiii cries.
I went into the hall and turned right and sat down at the table and Angelique said to me: You've changed a lot. You look like you're my age. You should be 11 and a half years old and I feel like I'm seeing someone who is 45 years old.
"Cousin, I'm a dragon now. and I have children."
Angelique: "Your mom told me what happened and it's terrible. And then seeing you as a Dragon and everything. Aren't you afraid of the police?"
Swallowing my pie: "No, and I don't care. And if you want to know, the girl is right, I'm a monster."
"But I see you, human..."