I understood immediately that human life no longer counted here. The richest bought the poorest and slavery was also a hardship.

The pilgrims who were imprisoned with me explained to me that a slave was more valuable than a dead person or an animal. The nobles could not use their title and if they did they would be free after a ransom but they would lose their right to the title of knight or they would have to pay a terrible compensation to the church to atone for their sins.

I had nothing left. I had given everything! pitiful for a dragon.

Raoul (noble): Marc, act like an idiot and obey like a dog! Never violence! My Uncle survived the galleys and slavery. He got out after 8 years! but he is free!

You 8-10 years is nothing for a dragon! You will live for centuries if you are careful!

In the background an old red dragon was attached to a halter made of solid wood and reinforced with metal plates. She could hardly move, but there were traces of the blood of the unfortunate people who had served her as pâté, animals, humans? condemned? or rebel slaves.

YOU the young dragon!" the creature growled at me in draconian language.

My companions did not understand anything but I told them that my grunts were not threats but a means of communication between reptiles. They reassured themselves.

YES, you black man with spades!

Why did you come here to get lost? And what are those decorations on your horns, they look like dragon slayer coats of arms!

My name is KARRRINE. I was defeated in Cappadocia. I had the reflex to surrender and submit or I would have died. What about you?

Me? I just got arrested for I don't know and I was visiting Jerusalem.

Karrrine: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, she's the best, a dragon tourist in the kingdom of Judas! They are beautiful, aren't they, the arena! And the port? beautiful! HAHAHAHAHAHA and HAHAHAHAHAHA and HAHAHAHAHAHA the slave market, beautiful view on the HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA wailing wall!

But it's nonsense!

And you didn't defend yourself???? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA and you are so big that if my daughter saw you she would jump on you HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Me: Oh, that's good. I have to lay low.

Karrrine: What? WOAF WOAF WOAF The dog MWAHHAHAHAHAHAA.

Did he castrate you or what or did they take your fire gland out????

I used to break and melt my chains but they held me and my daughter hostage. It's ONLY because of her!

And you, you're young, you don't have children yet! Huh? What are you? 20-30 years old?

No," I answered, "I have 8 years in my head but really 11. I'm a bit retarded...

HAHAHAHAHAH.

Me: Why are you dragons so mean?

Karrrine? mean? us? We're not mean, we're just at the top of the food chain, that's all! Men are a kind of breeding, sophisticated game.

And it's like pigs, they have good taste! but they are the best bleeders, their blood is very salty. and the fat ones taste like honey and sweets. the children are a bit mentholated and as they have very little hair they taste good and are easy to digest. and besides, they are everywhere. Even in the sea and in the desert!

Me: Shut up, you disgust me! Before I was a dragon I was a human and if you don't shut up you'll be the fourth dragon I've killed!

Karrrine: Oh oh oh, Mr. Dragon is rebelling! I want you to know that Mr. Dragon Guy, "the little one", that I have more than one trick up my sleeve and I have your life between my paws. and if you don't pay attention to what they tell you, you'll be the next one in my belly! At least I have eaten other dragons and I have TAKEN THEIR STRENGTHS AND POWERS. So you're going to be the good dog dog with me! Okay?

So I ask the questions and YOU answer!

WHAT'S YOUR NAME "LITTLE ONE"?

marc...

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HOW?

Marc.., my name is Marc.

AND WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

North of Burgundy in AUSTRASIA, Kingdom of the Franks.

HA, you must have met my daughter then! There's no way you haven't met her.

Me: Your Daughter?

YES, KAA, her first name is KAA.

She is my treasure, a brave among the brave. An outstanding hunter and she kept all the snakes and those Sorcerers of Doom at bay. She was even too kind.

Then she looked at me.

YOU are hiding something from me! I can see it in your eyes!

The pilgrims were wondering what was going on and I was telling them!

Karrrine: What, are you talking to those brats!????? These are your friends????

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, but they stink like a knight!

NO, don't tell me.... you were a human before and ....Yes, yeah, it's all falling into place!

Your crest on your cape and your tattoo on your horn. You're a Dragon Hunter! A Dragon Slayer Dragon. A Dragon Slayer!.

A Piece of Shit! Yes, you are a little shit. My instincts have never lied to me.

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SNIIFF SNIFF, mana! DRAGON'S BLOOD! I smell dragon's blood on you, dragon blood! you can wash yourself but you won't fool me I have an extraordinary sense of smell and I can spot my prey from hundreds of kilometers away.

LICK LICK with her forked tongue! and she concentrates.

No.......NOOOO NOOOO

ROOAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR!

You are soaked in KAA's blood! I feel her power over you! you have absorbed her power, her mana, her strength.

You killed my daughter!

I don't feel her connection to me anymore since 6 months.

Telllll ME! TEEELLLL me that I am wrong!.

Have you met my daughter, the red dragon?.

Me: Yes! I have met your daughter. She was beautiful but she was going to kill a child! Twelve children were hurt by her and she burned my lair.

Karrrine: SNiff, Kaa, my poor Kaa, so nice.

Me: Nice? with the taste of children?

Karrrine: What are you talking about! Kaa has never eaten a human in her life! Your children you're talking about! She spoke to me telepathically! When she came to your lair out of curiosity, a snake was slaughtering your friends and she brought the children back to her lair to heal them and surprise you!

You are the monster! And immediately after she told me that she had found the dragon of her dreams and then nothing more and then just goodbye mommy and I love Mark.

!!!!!!

IIIIII, IIIII, IIIIIII I started to cry!

KARRRINE: If SHE'S DEAD I WILL EAT YOU WHERE YOU HIDE. TELL ME IF YOU KILLED HER. YES OR NO!

III IIIIIII IIIIIII IIIIII,

SHOULD I TAKE THAT AS A YES? (TEARS, RAGE, ANGRY RED EYES)

No, she is still alive but everyone thinks she is dead. I love Kaa but I thought it was her.

KARRRINE: You're not even a dragon, you're a little shit, just know that and I will avenge Kaa.

TELL ME EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED!

She kissed me and I pushed her away, I thought it was gross and she showed me the wounded children and told me to eat them.

KARRRINE: She would normally test you to see if you weren't like the Snakes that ate the children or went crazy from the smell of the blood.

KEEP ON IT!

So, I cut her open with the sword of my tail.

!!!!!!! (crying, tears)- You bastard! Filthy coward!!

And she asked me to forgive her for what she had done.

KARRRINE: It's normal, she didn't have time to explain and you wouldn't have believed her, plus she asked for forgiveness that she loved you.

She took care of the children by crying over them.

KARRRINE: She was crying for her love for you!

And I took her to the sun so that she could see it one last time.

We red dragons are proud of the fire of the sun. (SNIFFING, CRYING)

And before she took her last breath, I threw major care on her to get the wound closed and it worked.

KARRRINE: You did that???? Tell me that you saved her, that it's not a lie!

Yes, I saved her. Her blood came back in and her wounds closed, but she fell asleep, in hibernation.

KARRRINE: OOF, after a terrible shock and when you have no more mana to heal yourself, you go into hibernation. It can last THOUSAND YEARS! or even more!

At least you had the decency to spare her. Did you do this out of love or pity?

Uh, out of love!

At least you have a heart instead of a brain. I'll kill you quickly instead of killing you slowly!

And you didn't leave her like that! Huh?

-No, I said. I collapsed the mountain on top of her, well not on top of her, but next to her. No one will go there!

You'd better survive slavery because I have to kill you and first you're going to show me where she is! because I'm not going to wait a thousand years to talk to her again, I have to go into hibernation too! And you'd better bury me well too because you'll come with me willingly or unwillingly!

OK Mom....

I'M NOT YOUR MOTHER, LET ALONE YOUR MOTHER-IN-LAW! AND IF SHE DOESN'T FORGIVE YOU, I'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU! WORD OF A RED DRAGON.

AND DON'T YOU DARE PUT YOUR THING IN ANOTHER DRAGON! BECAUSE I'LL SETTLE YOUR SCORE JUST AS QUICKLY!

I SWEAR, IF I COULD GET THIS LEVER DOWN, YOU'D SEE!

KARRRINE calmed down and cried for her missing daughter and I told her about the exploits she told me in a loud mist.

I explained everything to Raoul and Arma who was in hiding was furious that I had lied about Kaa's death but happy that she wasn't a bad person and that the men who died were in fact snakes hidden in the mist and obviously Kaa, not being discreet, was being seen and the blame was put on her. She killed the Serpents and they took revenge by blaming her. She was also a victim of the Necromancer.

I had an idea, Say, KARRRINE, if I made you escape, you could take 5 of my companions on you and me the 5 others?

How do you like it? They have a heat sensor. See this spring? It's heat sensitive. As soon as I blow or heat it up, a mass of water will drown us! and we'll be knocked out and your dead companions drowned.

Ah, yes, nevertheless!

And you see this mystical scale, it detects magic and click, drowned too. Don't you think I've tried it?

Me: Tell me if you agree! I have a pilgrimage to make.

KARRRINE, wait, no, not that anyway! You want to become a knight? Don't disappoint me anyway!

And if I become human again like that paf la!?? what do I do???? At least I'll be noble and I'll have an estate. And if I'm with KAA, we'll have peace! No more dragon hunters, no more knights to hunt us.

KARRRINE, and what do I do with these people afterwards?

You drop them off at the Roman Empire! and we walk back to the Visigoths (Spain/Portugal).

And then I kill you! says Karrrine!

So what's your plan....

The plan is .......