22. Analysis 7

Tyama needed a few moments to calm down, and praise herself for having managed to remain physically impassive while receiving Lucien's demonic smile (in multiple ways).

Tyama took a deep breath with her eyes closed and said.

"Why? Why now this? You could have done this centuries ago, especially when THEY!!." She said pointing to Ad-juru, Ethel, Camilo and, with a particularly deadly look, to Maeelus. "They had the brilliant idea of ​​attacking the nests and stealing almost all the eggs that had recently been laid, and exterminating the other half." She said with more than evident venom in her voice, remembering how the nests had looked after the worst attack that the Drakonios had suffered during their brief but intense war against these ancient creatures.

The feeling of anger and disgust that she exuded was felt, understood and accepted by everyone present. Lauriel, with whom Tyama had been teasing since she arrived, stood up and placed her hand on Drakonia's shoulder with a completely sincere apologetic look, the others followed suit, including Lucien (who returned to smiling in a friendly way and trying to make up for what had happened ), by Ad-juru, Camilo and Ethel. The only one who didn't change his attitude was Maeelus, something expected but which was still uncomfortable, even more so due to the fact that the experiments that Maeelus carried out with the eggs and chicks were particularly brutal.

"I know that apologies don't change the past. But I'm still sorry for what happened back then." Lucien said with honest regret and guilt. "This is actually supposed to be, in a way, a way to remedy what happened before."

"What you mean?" She said again, intrigued but still angry.

"As bad as the experiments were, they still helped us understand much of your development, so we can and have devised methods to correct much of your species' conception deficiency. But we knew you wouldn't want anything to do with it." of us, not until some of their fully justified hatred could subside." Lucien said.

"So we waited a few more centuries and quietly helped your kind, even though you and a few others noticed." Lucien said.

"Our idea was to reacquaint you with this help so that at the right time we could deliver the method we developed to facilitate your ability to conceive as a way of trying to remedy what happened before."

"This will hardly change their opinion of you at all. Because of our interconnected link, it has been richly written into our DNA that we have distrust and enmity towards you." Tyama said decisively.

"Even though I feel a certain affection and affection for you, well almost everyone, I still feel a need to either push away or fight against you. If I hadn't learned how to minimize the compulsion of my instincts, just talking to you would be impossible. Accepting help from you in small personal things that only relates to me would be possible, accepting help on behalf of my entire species as a way of "alleviating" what happened before... honestly in the opinion of many this would basically be the biggest insult that they could give."

Tyama said looking at her hands.

With that, everyone in the room could only sigh at the difficulty in remedying the situation. Not that they expected it to be easy, but getting to the point of altering their own genetic codes in favor of this disagreement was something they didn't expect. Except for old Zhun.

"...Unless" Tyama said, making everyone pay attention to her. "Unless someone already recognized among you presents this method along with a gift to show sincerity."

"Wouldn't the method to increase your population to a greater number than you ever had be a gift in itself?" Ad-juru asked.

"No, not even close." She said shaking her head. "This method is your way of trying to apologize to our race for essentially an unnecessary genocide."

Before anyone could contradict the use of the word genocide, Tyama already continued.

"From our point of view it was indeed a genocide, but as we instigated the conflict in the first place, we were already very weakened and unbelievably so by knowing that you had not done it intentionally. Or so I accept that it was with the majority." She said looking at Maeelus, Anari and Jean. "We accepted the non-conflict pact to focus on recovering our numbers and helping the females who had been almost decimated by Ka'luth's attack while we were busy with you. Because of this, even though we know that part of the damage is not yours responsibility, to us, you still have a good share of the blame."

No one refuted it, even if the conflict was started by the Drakonios under the deception of Ka'luth, who also tricked them into carrying out an attack on the nests. They couldn't disagree that Ka'luth was only able to do this because they were negligent in keeping watch over him, especially Lucien, old Zhun, etc., who had a better understanding of how the DAEMOS behaved and still gave him room to act differently. any way you wanted.

"Very well and what kind of gift would show our sincerity?" Maeelus asked with a frown.

At that Tyama closed his eyes and remained silent for a while, even his tail had stopped its light movements. Taking a breath, she opened her eyes again and said.

"The head of one of you, literally being handed over to the elders."