The city had been left behind, everything just felt sweet. No worries to have, except maybe a rather wild dragoness to handle. Amaria had behaved so good for so long; the young man knew it would have consequences… He was confident in his capacities to refrain her enthusiasm though. He would just have to remain calm.




The wheel had turned. If he was in charge in the city, he knew that Amaria would claim her rightful author

Amaria smelt the air, looking for a specific scent. His scent. In the nature, she could find him in a matter of seconds, but in the city, it took more concentration.




The dragoness had just finished the little ‘task’ her lover gave her, and now she wondered where she might find him this time. It had been days since the attack. The reconstruction of the city was in good way, people were slowly getting back to their nor

Amaria could move now, but she simply didn’t see the point of it. All she did was looking at the white shape with a blank stare.




“You had promised…” She simply said, a calm accusation to this shadow’s faults. The only thing she cared about, the only one she expected to survive this all. Gone… Because he had listened to this being.

Restrained by chains even an enraged struggle couldn’t break, the dragoness let out a long, complaining roar of pain. Not a loud one, but a necessary one. Inside her chest, she had felt a light dying, a part of her shutting down for good, a hole that enlarged painfully…




“Hey, stay calm, dragon.” The lady warrior got on her guards again, genuinely frightened by her reaction.

The remaining soldiers only had the time to escape as the large metallic door fell heavily on the floor. All of them were on their guards, but their hesitance was nearly palpable. Who could have blamed them?




A large cloud of smoke rose from the entrance, and shadows took shape in its core. Human shapes, distorted in a way that reflected the monsters they were inside. Their contours became more defined when, in calm steps, they d

He didn’t speak a word, and that was the most terrifying… Walking behind him, for the stairs were too narrow to allow her by his side, the dragoness observed her human without even knowing what to say. Like an automat, he repeated his steps, a hand on his sword pommel.




Even if he had never spoken it out loud, the young human admired Bolner. He was the fatherly figure he needed after the disappearance of his parents

One
bang, and the target fell, dead in an instant. To Alexander, this new
weapon was magical. It felt like unleashing the wrathful power of the
gods themselves… This day was the best he ever lived. Only one
thing did bother the war chief in his march, actually.
“There’s
incredibly few people around here… It’s like they have already
evacuated…” he said with a glance of suspicion toward the kid
walking at his side.
Alexander
knew really few of David, but he had known the father for s

David
was wandering through the streets of the city without any real goal,
trying to think. People didn’t care much for his presence anyway;
they were too busy with the coming war… A war this city would win,
without knowing it yet.
This
man, this ‘nameless warrior’… It was so easier when the
teenager could simply consider him as an enemy to kill. Now, he
simply didn’t know how he was supposed to feel toward him. His
eyes, his face, his tears… There was no doubt he was going to save

David
couldn’t believe how easy it was… He thought that at least
someone would notice that he followed his old enemy, but no one
seemed to even care about his presence. Some of them did look at him,
but then they turned their head like they had already forgotten him.
Was he so insignificant to their eyes?
It
didn’t matter. He was used to people ignoring him. It had nearly
become part of this city’s culture over the last year… He already
had a solid opinion on that. But right now, his c

Pushing
on her hind legs, Amaria leaped on the humans, tackling them and
maintaining the two of them firmly on the ground. If she wasn’t so
focused on her task, the dragoness would have taken her time to enjoy
how powerful she felt with two humans kept on the ground by her
strong forepaws.
“Amaria,
what are you doing?!” Her lover protested with energy. And if David
wasn’t busy groaning furiously, he would have probably asked the
same.
“Enough
is enough!” She growled menacingly. “Yo

Amaria
followed her human without a word as he walked hastily, straight to
the prison. Anyway, no word from anyone could have stopped him right
now. She knew it; she knew how stubborn he was when he was angry. And
during all the time they had spent together, she had never seen him
so furious.
A
war was engaged, a human had been killed with a weapon her lover
apparently wished to never see invented, and worse, it had been
stolen right from his parents’ work, and given to a deadly enemy.
Even if

Bolner
wasn’t waiting for them in his office like usual. As soon as they
got passed the door, a young lady with a hard look simply told them
they were waited in the maps room. This wasn’t a good sign…
First,
because the young man had never heard about a ‘maps room’
anywhere in this city, and the fact that the stairs leading to it
seemed to plunge into the bowels of earth itself wasn’t
reassuring... And this name… ‘maps room’… it did sound like
military term… Why else would

« Are
you sure you want to do this, my human ? » She asked
Her
tone was far more worried than the last time she pronounced these
exact words. It was curious how words could mean totally different
things with the proper way of speaking them. Right now, her sentence
held a big anxiety, and the young man could easily understand why.
The
morning had yet begun in a lovely way. When he had opened his eyes,
he was laying on his bed, a bit slimy, and with a peacefully sleeping
dragon he

« Are
you sure you want to do this, my human ? »
The
stars were filling the beautiful, unclouded night sky. Temperature
was a bit chilly, but they both had known worse. To him, this was the
perfect night for their reunion.
The
young man smiled as he heard her words. They carried no worries, this
was just a simple question asked with a light tone. This was the top
part of the huge relief she had to feel at this moment, and there
were good reasons for such mood.
Thanks
to her rel

She
sighed on the mattress, fighting against sleep. She had to admit that
it was more comfortable than the ground, but it was tricky. Her
eyelids seemed to weight a ton… A comfy mattress, and a prey in her
belly, everything called for a good nap. But she had to resist; she
was waiting for any sign that could tell that he was waking up in
there. Because the prey that rested in her stomach was the one she
loved, and she didn’t want to take any risk.
Earlier
that day, he had found her, outside

“Ah,
there you were hiding.”
Amaria
instantly turned her head to look behind. Indeed, there she hid, and
there he found her… Her former lover had tracked her.
She
had come to this place to think, away from this city where all kinds
of humans came and went. She wanted some peace, and this cliff upon
the sea had always been her favorite spot. It was calm and peaceful.
A proper place for insights.
The
previous day had been… strange. Leaving the celebrations of the
city, he had cornered her

Everyone
laughed and had fun. Everyone, except the young dragoness who had to
attend this human gathering. The people around weren’t such
trouble, she had gotten accustomed to their presence. No, the most
disturbing was… him.
She
had watched her former lover all the evening, and many people had
approached him. And Among them, many females… They all came,
smiling and laughing, offering him food. She didn’t know much about
humans’ way to court, but it did look like it was one way… What

Amaria
groaned as she woke up the next morning. She had been crying the
whole previous day in her hidden corner, and she didn’t have any
more tear to drop. She felt so empty…
In
order to remain loyal to the role she played with her amnesic lover,
she had come to his place to inspire him a bit of fear. To justify
her presence in the city and the interest she had for him, she had
told him that he was hers and that they had faked being friends so
other humans wouldn’t suspect her to be the tr

Amaria
woke up at dawn with the first sunrays. She was sleeping on the
ground, in the middle of the city.
At
first, she had spent some nights in hidden corners, fearing that a
human would try to murder her in her sleep. They didn’t seem to
mind her, but she didn’t feel welcome either. Eager to guarantee
her safety, she had gone every morning at Bolner’s place to give
some venom. And the results had exceeded her expectations.
With
a few humans getting cured within a day from diseases and ot

Despite
the calm and the emptiness of the hall, Amaria couldn’t help but
glance everywhere while she waited in front of the door.
She
would never forget their look… All these humans, staring at her…
What
shocked her was how they all seemed to share the same feeling.
Although she tended to experience difficult to read humans’ facial
expressions, she had learnt to recognize some during all the time she
had spent with hers.
This
was no fear… This was no hate… This was… confusion. They

Something
slowly got her out of her dream.
Something
was touching her wings in her sleep. She hated that! Anyone touching
her wings would have faced her deepest anger! But not this time…
Because she recognized the familiar soft touch of a certain human’s
fingers, and it was probably the only thing she allowed to do this.
Because
in his case, she knew it was especially meant to annoy her… to
tickle her…
Still
not moving or opening an eye, she grinned in her sleep. And she could
feel in th