When she got to the pool she moved her fiery red locks out
of the way with her hand and moved forward for a drink, she stopped, her
reflection was vastly different from the one she previously had seen, this one
was even more disgusting to look at, her face was covered in dirt, dried yolk,
blood and feathers, her eyes were bloodshot from all the dust and her fiery red
strands upon her head were now more grey than red with all the rock fragments
in it. She laughed aloud and stopped suddenly, surprised at such a weird sound,
and her eyes opened wide, "Was that her? She wondered, she laughed again
looking at her surprised expression in the pool, and laughed even harder at the
funny noise coming from her throat and soon was in complete hysterical laughter
when looking and listening to herself, She laughed and laughed harder each time
she looked at herself in the pool as she laughed, then she started to calm down
when she noticed some clear fluid coming from her eyes it was leaking down her
face creating a crooked clean line in the blood and dirt. "What oddness is this?" She wondered "It doesn't hurt at all, humans sure have some strange things that happen to them." She struck the thought from her mind and took a drink of water
feeling immediately refreshed, after, she dunked her whole head in the pool
then waited for the pool to clear so she could inspect herself, she was still
filthy so she did it again and again shaking her head in it until it was clean.
The pool was dirty now but when the ripples cleared she could still she her
reflection and thought she didn't looked a lot better than before.
She made her way over to the statue and paused for a moment,
she hoped with all her heart that what she was about to do was going to work,
she didn't particularly mind this body at the moment, it was strong and tough
and she felt she had a very interesting day but she loved being Draga, a
dragon, 5000 years of being one doesn't just go away in a day and now it was
time be herself again. She lifted the statue with ease but was careful not to
lift too hard lest she wanted to shoot the statue up through the roof. She
lifted it above her head and sure enough there was some writing on the bottom
but it was not a simple word like FAE, no it was extremely long and the words
made next to no sense, it read RAKENDELNEFAEDRA.
She tried to say the
word aloud but she was not used to speaking, let alone a long word like this
but she tried over and over with no success. Finally, she gave up and committing
the word to memory she put the statue down. She sat down next to the statue and
closed her eyes. "Think" she told herself, think of what to do. It
was clear to her that no Draga could have made this statue, Draga are magic,
they did not use magic nor did they carve things, and clearly this was made for
use on a dragon. It had to be human made, but was it old? As old as she was
perhaps? No she decided, the humans that were around when she first joined this
world were idiotic and stupid, they used to pray to her as one of their gods,
she remembered, offering sacrifices to her so she wouldn't eat them, a peace
offering so to speak. That had only lasted a thousand years or so until man
found the source of magic and steel, The great wars ensued and lasted a
thousand years with no one becoming the victor, the third millennia they still
warred but tried to harness the power of dragons to aid them and failed miserably,
at first it seemed like a good compromise with the Draga and humans working
together but that all fell apart when we found our kind being exploited and
betrayed with the humans turning on us after they had won.
True Magic was the
next era. Only true magic could make a statue like that, but the Draga have an
immunity to magic for the most part, only the most powerful and combined spells
which take a hundred years to perfect could hope to harm us. This is the time when it was possible, two thousand years before now and human made.
She sighed, and thought to herself, I need some answers and
I'm not going to find them here. I guess I'm going to be stuck in this body for
a while longer, I find it interesting that I have lived for so long and wished
for death, Life was boring to me and held no worth anymore. Now I am stuck in
this body and have to find answers from the people I despise most. Tomorrow
then....I will enter the forest and begin my search for answers as a human. And
with her decision made, she closed her eyes, and went to sleep.
