After the meeting, the vacations were over and classes resumed.

I was panicking just at the thought of facing school.

Shit! I'm still Sylvia.

We met in front of the school entrance and when I arrived, everyone was silent. A silence.

But also everyone moved aside.

I could hear whispering, "It's her... It's the dragon! Are you scared? What if it gets mad?

Yes, it's Sylvia, do you think it's Poisse? She has two personalities?"

It was upsetting, but the mood eased when Jasmine jumped on me, and my buddies hugged me.

Then it was Dany's kiss.

And Philippe "warmed" my hair to mess up my hair. "Hey, the dragon, let's relax!"

I started to laugh;

"thank you guys!"

Then, the ranks were reformed and one went each one in our respective classes.

The teacher waited until we were sitting in class and then asked me. "Sylvia, I think the students have a lot of questions, but it shouldn't interfere with the curriculum. If you want to say a word, now is the time. You have one minute.

I got up and stood in front of the board.

"Hello my friends. Yes, I'm the dragon but I'm still Sylvia. I was born human like everyone else, but I also have the body of a dragon. I love Dany and all my friends. I would like to finish my year like everyone else and later have a diploma and a job like all of you. Thank you. Thank you very much. And thank you again for not rejecting me."

A classmate: "Do you know how to do magic?"

"Not really. Teacher? Can I go back to my place?"

Cutting short the questions, I didn't want to disturb my class too much.

The days passed and our situation stabilized but only one salary was hard. I would calm down my snack shopping and help mom at home with a little magic for cleaning, a bit like in the story of Merlin the Enchanter where the brooms and buckets took care of the apartment.

We never heard from Surish again... he went back to his family, to his cousins, the Brahmins having convinced him to leave us alone.

For his part, Viseron was making simulations upon simulations. But he wanted to convince me to work with him to bring back the dragons.

I didn't respond to any of his requests.

My instincts were not lying to me. If he wanted to reach them to "help" them get home. It was probably to emiminate them once and for all, finally bring back some females for him.

Bishop kept reminding me never to trust him.

For my part, I was disappointed for Oriharukon and I was starting to resent them, but it was stupid of me.

Bishop tried to reach me but since we no longer had the house, he found my grandmother who was happy to see him alive.

"On my phone, it was important to see him but he was suspicious. I was certainly under surveillance and the technology, it was a bug nest."

We still had 6 weeks before the block for the senior exams.

In the evening, I found mom. "Mom, I'm going to see grandma... You know... don't be afraid, okay? It's my dragon thing.

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"But, honey... You know, even though you're a dragon and very, very strong, I'm still afraid for you. Besides, you're all I have left in the world, yeah, there's grandma and grandpa and your daddy's grandma who's still alive. But, as a mom, I sometimes have hunches.

I know it's dangerous where you're going. What if an unexpected danger comes along? Who would come to your aid, if you were stuck in your dimension? I think about your nightmares and Othar... Every time he appeared to you, bad things happened to you..."

I thought about what Mom said and it was true. She would need a passage too. But I was afraid of illusory guardians... the materialization of nightmares.

"Okay, I'm going to enchant the revolving mirror. It must always be closed. It still needs a drop of blood to activate it. We pass through it and find ourselves in a corridor.

But watch out for the guards... You must ignore them and think only of me. The more you pay attention to them, the more real they are. Finally they are illusions. They are in your head, in fact...

Here is a dragon scale. Hold it in your hand or as a pendant and nothing will happen to you and you will always know where to go. If you lose it, walk towards the ocahedron and you will see the exits. If there are several exits, it's dangerous. You have to go to the slowest or still one and get out as fast as possible. There are other dangerous dragons connecting to this world. If you get caught, always say freedom, that you look for the exit. They don't hurt innocent people."

Mom was now more worried.

"Mama!" I'll be quick!. It's my nature too and a part of the dragon world. And then did you see the prices of the plane tickets? It takes a day just to get there! And here it takes me less than an hour to get there and back!"

She hugged me: "I love you but I'm so scared for you! And think of the egg too!"

I went into the mirror and mom put her head in to see inside.

Everything was so dark!

Corridors everywhere, stairs upside down.

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Ah! she said. It was dark and scary.

Dead of anguish, she went to sit in the living room, watching TV so she wouldn't be alone. Otherwise, there was David who was nearby just in case.

I was back in the maze and I could hear the octahedron axis cracking but I was running to see Bishop. I wasn't hanging around too much in that dimension which reassured Poisse but terrorized the Sylvia self and, for the moment I was Sylvia and little by little, my animal nature was adapting but integrating, merging with the Sylvia self.

Probably maternal and survival instincts.

That was a good point and the Sylvia self kept me from doing things I would regret, so I arrived in his workshop and he was waiting for me, all old and huddled up, "Ah, Hello Sylvia or Poisse if you want" Your mom is well?

I heard about her separation. It's sad for her, but take it as a new beginning "

I'll give my old friend a hug from Sylvia

"I know you're worried about Victoria, that without your stepfather your mom won't have time for work and you for school, but you're a dragon, not a human and you have to consider time as a friend or an ally.

"But you are a dragon, not a human and you have to consider time as a friend or an ally. Yes, your studies are 4 or 6 years, but what are 6 years compared to eternity? You see, you have friends who will help you. It's important that you are you. Above all, a dragoness!

A dragon needs its mommy. There are educators and teachers for the rest, but a mommy can never be replaced.

You can go back to school whenever you want.

When Victoria goes to school, you too... But don't destroy yourself. What you don't have now, you will have later."

"Thank you, teacher... thank you..." I needed those words. Now I am no longer in conflict with my instincts.

Bishop: "Wait, you still have a huge amount of work to do.

Upon reflection, Tiamat the infernal has crossed time and space from her dimension to that of the destroyed world. That means that for a dragon, what is impossible for a human, is not necessarily impossible for him.

If you could break through space as you did to come here, you could make a break in time and with the machine I left you, you could send a message to the Aegis. I still have the codes and the computer to connect to it."

Me: "Professor... it's obvious to you, who is a unique and brilliant scientist.

I am the little Poisse. A not very intelligent dragon, well I'm also Sylvia, but I'll never be a Nobel Prize winner.

I don't know if I'll be able to pass my graduate studies or even pass the entrance exam... "

Sad and realistic, I shed tears... "Viseron is a thousand times smarter than me... I don't have the blood of Oriharukon or Kaarine in me...I have the brains of a snake and a human mixed together. "

Bishop held my hand. He sighed and called his old wife Bichnine. I see that I can put my pension aside..." Looking at him, I said, "No... you're not going to do that?"

Bishop "Listen, my child. I'm old and worn out. Tomorrow, like in a year, I could disappear. And then, every day that I see myself in the mirror, I... "

And he collapsed in tears on his wheelchair. Bichnine came behind him with a handkerchief to wipe his tears. "Excuse me for the show, but I regret every moment of their sacrifice, and their assassination. I, I should have been stronger, a dragon and prevented this drama.

I'm responsible for it and I can't look at myself anymore. It has to stop. We have to take them home, to our home!"

Then Bishop continued sobbing in his chair. It was like he was hopping. Bichnine looked at me. "It's been like that ever since. He's leaving, worn down by regret and sadness. He even once asked to be lobotomized to forget. "

Bishop: "I have the blood of a cryogenically frozen dragon, but it takes your poison to initialize it. I have nothing left to lose. Neither does my wife. We're at the end of our lives. I wanted to leave for another life but I regret it and I think I can never leave.

I am damned. You are the only one who can save us and your family. If I survive the transformation, maybe I can bring them back with you."

So, instinctively, without thinking, I grabbed Bishop's handle and bit him, injecting my poison, and Bichnine injected him with a blood sample to make the transformation go well. Bichnine also injected him with a blood sample so that the transformation would go smoothly.

I then returned to my dragon form and released mana so that Bishop would pass the horrible test of the mutation. The pain was inevitable, so I concentrated on his vital functions. Throughout the transformation, I had to cast healing spells and recover at the same time. Bichnine called Mom to let her know that I would be back later...