CHAPTER 46: THE START OF A NIGHTMARE

In the hut of the village of ESTHER, she finds herself awake, with a crazy, angry look, trying to cut dry grass with her bare hands, pulls it over and over again, making sores on her hands.

He heard ryu took PANDORA to the mountain.

She's so upset she squeezes her lips by biting herself.

A thread of blood rolls down his chin from his lower lip.

SHURUI passes through the area of PANDORA's room, he carries a basket with fruit.

Not seeing the guards, he peeks into the council room, where he finds them.

When questioned, they express that the king stayed in the human's room.

SHURUI's face gets a little sad, looks at his fruit basket and leaves it on the table, tells them they can eat it.

They thank you and cheerfully approach the basket.

SHURUI walks away to his room.

On the other side of the sea, in the lower part of the castle, inside it, there is a large courtyard, below it.

There is a cobbled soil and beneath it, there are dungeons, of different sizes, in which he makes his slaves live, letting them out, only when he needs them and returning them at the end of the work.

People live in deplorable conditions.

From the sky full of clouds, a storm begins.

Inside the dungeons, humans light campfires to fight a little against the gloom and the cold.

In one of the largest dungeons, there is TYPHOON.

Lyme his wounds, look around and there's only gloom.

Alone in that great dungeon, shrinked by the cold, very close to the grille that prevents her from leaving.

She can see the moonlight that lights pale by the rain that falls incessantly.

The water sneaks through the grate, causes the girl to step away from the grate, the water is cold and she is so lonely.

The girl cries, she speaks short, stuttering a little for the cold, another so much for fear.

They took PALADIA many hours ago.

She's afraid she'll never see her again.

There's movement in the courtyard.

Soldiers go back and forth.

From the walls of the castle, as well as the windows, come the manticocoras and harpies, ready to fight.

They are being attacked by elves mounted on dragons they tamed.

They try to rescue some elves who were apprehended by DWYER, who are in one of the dungeons.

The noises of heavy blows caused by attacks on the castle resonate all over the castle floor, intimidating the imprisoned humans and TYPHOON, who shuts up, covering his ears, scared and closing his eyes, there, sitting squatting.

Very early, the first to open your eyes is PANDORA.

RYU lies asleep next to her, has transformed into a dragon, she lets out a slight laugh, she will be happy to know that she did not last all night transformed.

By feeling her movement, RYU opens her eyes, she can see PANDORA's face so close to that, she can't feel happier, they both smile.

RYU is ashamed, unable to fulfill his promise to spend the whole night in his human form.

But, he says he'll work hard to make it happen.

PANDORA is pleased by RYU's gesture, however, he tells her that there is no need to do such a feat.

RYU, if necessary, the young king takes pandora's hands, explains that for him it is much necessary, as he intends to take her as his wife.

PANDORA is astonished, not in his greatest dreams thought of one day being his wife.

Suddenly, her world takes a small turn, they realize that, she is human... none says anything,

RYU thinks: how then should a dragon king live in human form?

This is definitely a problem.

RYU becomes tense, PANDORA approaches and caresses his face, reassures him, she speaks sincerely, would never ask RYU to live like a human since he is not.

RYU doesn't understand.

PANDORA giving him a smile, explains that, being the crown king and being a dragon, he should live proudly like a dragon...

her human form can only be necessary when sleeping with her...

in the solitude of their room, they alone...

RYU completes the sentence: at least, like her husband.

Both blush... they try to get out of bed and clumsiness for being embarrassed by assuming those moments of intimacy, cause RYU to stumble upon PANDORA, reacting instantly and becoming human so as not to crush it.

They fell out of his bed.

RYU, still on it, amortigued PANDORA's fall with his arm.

They have stood still, staring at each other, with their hearts agitated, soon they passed the kisses, in their minds, there is nothing wrong with their relationship, they have not thought about the negative parts or the consequences.

They feel they have the world in their hands and they both want to show the love they have.

Between caresses and kisses, something in RYU's mind makes him stop, a slight memory of his father, talking to him about her.

At that time, his father had accompanied him to one of the food gatherings on the outskirts of the kingdom.

Your father once told you, if the lagoon once thought of PANDORA's happiness?

If she started thinking about the consequences that it would bring to a human being married by a dragon?

Do you really ask your son if he thinks a human would survive such a thing?

Not because of the fact itself.

If not, because of the consequences that action would bring.

RYU, you never really thought about it... never before.

The young man still stops kissing the neck of the young PANDORA, looks at her, kisses her once more, but, with more control, holding back.

Seeing her well, she, although she has grown up and is almost 13, still very young, is not yet old, her body is also fragile, does not possess the strength to bear the possible consequences in case they both copulate.

What if the consequences could be deadly for such a fragile body?

She is not a reptile, in her race, the form of procreation is, laying eggs, PANDORA is human, she is afraid to just think that incubating something inside her could kill her.

A latent fear is drawn on the face of RYU, who quickly turns away from her, PANDORA, still wrapped in her own desires, is somewhat bewildered.

END OF CHAPTER 46