Tania was happy not to be alone, not to be really abandoned. She was human size, like Marise, but their real size was in the 20 meters for Tania and 15 for her adopted daughter.

To describe them, Tania looked like a Deinonychus, a feathered raptor and Marise looked like a wyvern with a raptor's head, her scales were golden.

Now they were surrounded but Marise could not fly yet, her transformation from human to painful dragon was slower.

"What are we going to do? I'm afraid..." She huddled behind Tania. She(Tania) searched her inventory and found a white cloth and a piece of wood. She tied the cloth to the stick and knelt down.

"Do as I did, Marise...I've cast a shield over both of us and I have zone spells ready to exterminate them all. We're safe..."

With the staff planted, we looked at the ground and waited.

The knights, numbering a thousand, surrounded us very closely and 2 riders approached with lances, followed by a woman dressed in black on an equally black horse.

Tania: "It must be a nobleman or a magician or an officer, his cloak has gold thread on it".

One of the lancers stopped, the creatures in front of him being extremely frightening.

He took the cloth from his spear and stretched out the end to Isoldebella. She took the white cloth and saw that it was a shirt, clean and smelled of perfumed soap.

This is a sign of submission. "The creatures surrender, put away your swords."

The soldiers complied.

She approached Tania and said, "You have nothing to fear. But Tania didn't understand. She hid her mouth between her feathers so as not to frighten.

Tania said, "Hello, I'm Tania ans this is Marise..."

The apprentice magician was surprised... They spoke the old language, the language of magic and ancient writings.

"Hello, I m Isolde, mage at the royal court"

Tania: "Please don't hurt us. We will cover ourselves so as not to scare the men..."

The magus returned to the head of the army, his little brother Alban, royal captain of the guard.

The knights here were mostly elite soldiers.

Alban: "Well, sister? "

Iseultbella: "Beware of this creature... Its size is reduced by 10 by magic, a terribly powerful shield covers them and its level is unfathomable. It has an unfathomable reserve of mana and its level is so high that I can't find out more. But what I do know is that her alignment is chaotic bad. On the other hand the other creature is of my level, looks inexperienced. His size is also reduced by 10. It has an unfathomable reserve of mana but its alignment is chaotic good. Amazing.

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We will carry them in the coach, not the cage... it's too dangerous. Something tells me that if we use violence, their reaction would be terrible.

The wizard came back near Tania and Marise who put on a kind of burka adapted and finely embroidered.

We could tell their tails by the veil that lifted up and the claws on the legs, but varnished, neat and some decorative elements such as gaiters set with pearls.

Even with a raptor's head, the two dragons were neat and clean.

A fine perfume even emanated from them when they entered the carriage, which Iseultbella was aware of.

Under a good escort, they could see the landscape passing by and the paths and villages crossed.

Mage: "We will receive you as guests in the castle and I will ask you questions once we get there. Since you are obviously not from here, we will pass through several villages. They each have a castle farm to protect themselves from bandits and deserters who live from looting and banditry. "

The incessant wars have broken and tired the country but the magician refrained from giving strategic information. they are on the verge of famine. And this kind of detail doesn't escape Tania's attention.

Tania: "I see that the fields are small and there are few men in the fields".

This kind of detail showed the magician that Tania was very observant.

"Orcs and demonic creatures have made the peasants pay a heavy price. Not all of them are able to take shelter or reach the garrisons. That is why the fields remain close to the villages to allow the peasants to reach the garrisons in time."

"And you, Marise? You don't say much..."

Marise: "I am afraid... sorry... don't hurt us..."

The magician saw that the creature in front of her was softer, more innocent.

Mage: "We will arrive during the night. I have some bread and cheese here if you're hungry, it's not much, but I also have some honey milk to soften the dry bread."

She handed the dish to Marise who reached out her paw, a veil falling on her claws and she delicately took the bread and dipped it in the small jug and swallowed the bread. It was simple and good.

"Thank you," she said timidly.

Tania could sense if there was any malice or not and also helped herself politely.

Mage:" You have a human attitude... It will be easier to communicate."

So you will be introduced to the prince-pontiff.

He is a nobleman but I also see richness in your clothes and a finesse and quality that we don't have. But we don't ask the sovereign any questions, but I think you already know that. You must be a nobleman too and you will be treated as such."

Tania: "I've known nobles and sovereigns and emperors and I know the protocol and scale of nobility."

Mage: "I have a lot of questions but I won't bother you with that. I saw that you were sad and that you were hitting the metal ball and I must conclude that you have suffered from this separation".

Tania: "Yes... It's hard but now that I'm with Marise, I don't feel abandoned anymore".

Tania began to appreciate the apprentice in front of her, she even liked her a little too much.

Tania: "You are pretty..."

Iseultbella was astonished by the compliment. She thought that Tania might be a male, but the question preoccupied her.

"What is your relationship with Marise?

Tania: "Marise is my daughter..."

Marise: "Yes, Tania is my mummy."

For sex, the answer was clear.

"And where you come from, what's it like?"

Marise: "There's a lot of cakes, cars, TV, I have lots of friends and we have a nice apartment. Tania cooks, because I'm a disaster."

"And the others are like you? "asked the magician.

"Yes and no, my friends are human and there are some dragons, some elves and kajit and even a couple of spiders.

We all live together and free. There are even mixed couples and humans who have adopted orphaned Argonians."

"Argonian? Kajit?"

"Yes, Argonians are lizard men. They are enemies of the Orcs, the Kajit are panther men and the Arachnids are spider men."

Mage: "They live together? How?"

Marise: "They are refugees, theirs have been exterminated except for the lizard men who joined the humans during the Great War. They joined the humans who welcomed them with open arms. The dragons also asked for asylum..."

Mage: "The dragons speak????? Asylum?"

Tania: "Yes, they had an emperor and powerful magical dragons. They fled from a modern army of a demonic empire so they wouldn't be exterminated and they surrendered to the humans who integrated them into their army."

Mage: "Sounds like a long story... but were there animal dragons?"

Tania: "Yes, mostly wyverns and dinosaurs like me. Only 1 dragon out of 20 is intelligent. But they are separate races. Our children are smart like their parents. We also hunt them and eat them. But it's not cannibalism. They are like monkeys compared to humans".

The mage thus learned that Tania was a Drago Raptor. A predatory Apex.