Atesxan
the raid was lost in her thoughts…
What
was she doing? If the other dragons came to know the truth, she’d
become an outcast… Fortunately, her lair was remote from the caves
most of them lived in… She could easily hide the object of her
fault…
She
had saved a human… a human that was still alive, in her belly…
Of
course, on her way back home, she had crossed the path of many
dragons who wondered why she left the raid so early… with so many
other humans to eat… For them, t

“Look,
mommy… Is that the witch?”
“shhh
she might hear you.”
People
and rumors… a never-ending love story... But Kate was used to
these…
‘Kate’…
Even she had come to forget the sound of her own name… People had
been calling her by her last name… ‘Miss Whistler’… Well, for
the polite ones… because others had other nicknames for her… ‘the
witch’… the insult for woman that ended with the same sound…
‘the brat’… some even called her ‘the devil’…

“What’s
going on out there?”
“You
should come and see, Kate… This isn’t something we see everyday…
the hunters have come back.”
Shivering
slightly, the ten years old girl came closer to the window, where the
other orphans were gathered in an excitation Kate didn’t share…
The hunters always gave her shivers down her spine…
Highly
trained, these elite warriors were a kind of specialized task force…
specialized in tracking and killing particular targets. Lately,
rumors had r