Tchouuk tchoouk, made the steam engine.

I was having a great time with the workshop.

It was like a huge playground.

I wanted to fly, I wanted to fly, I wanted to swim, we were going to swim at the lake.

I loved Marie and we played together.

Paul decided to stay for a while and enjoy our company.

We even went hunting once together. I spotted the big game, and I pushed it back towards him.

A deer was too big for me, I wasn't even a year old. And Auberone was just beginning.

Our life consisted more of 3/4 playing and 1/4 working. It was cool. A beautiful childhood for a horrible birth.

I also trained with Paul in sword training but I was already over 2 meters high and swore every time I hit my horns against the doorframe.

One day, I got tired of it and nailed a skin to the frame.

Paul and Mary rolled on the floor laughing when they saw my work and I was tired of the bumps on my head.

"But your head is already full of bumps, HAHAHAHAHAHA" said the humans.

-"Laugh, laugh, but you too, when you have horns..."-

"HAHAHAHAHA Yes, yes, when the chickens have teeth..."

Then Paul sat down and thought, then he stood up:

It's not the king you have to convince, it's the magician of the academy. If you come back as an apprentice, you'll be protected, even from the king.

"What do you know about magic?" Paul asked.

"Uh, not much but daily magic like lighting candles, torches, lighting the house or a cave.

Oh yes, separating forged ingredients,

But I didn't understand everything in the circles and all that, I get lost and it's incomplete.

I would like to go to the academy and I think my sister could learn some useful things like ranger or trapper, tanner and hunting trades that would allow her to survive and trade and make connections.

It's mostly for her that I'm afraid. She's so young."

"You too," Paul replied.

Yes Yes Yes...

"How do we do it then?"

"Why don't you start by writing a letter, Vermithraxa?"

"Good idea"

And I wrote a letter of request and presentation to an archimage.

My fingers elongated as a wyvern but I kept my reversible thump and keep 2 fingers able to use tools and things. The rest going as wing bones.

I asked to become an apprentice magician and the protection of the academy despite my race and sister. I named myself and also my sister and I was telling a brief introduction of my origin.

A list of creations, projects and a diagram of my pump and formulas for calculating gears. And on the back, an ink print of my paw.

Paul would go mail it as soon as he got back.

I tried to take off with Marie on my back but we couldn't do it but I managed to glide with her on my back when I started from a hill. It was like tobogganing.

We would run up the slope and then we would slide down the slope.

Then my sister did the same to take turns.

We were playing Princess Princess Princess,

To the crocodile in the lake

Then we rested and went angling.

Then we tried to breathe and I managed to make a jet of flames.

My sister also managed to produce flames.

Then the last day arrived and Mary and Paul had to leave with my letter.

As a farewell, I had strips of various metals and they chewed them and spat fire while flying at night over the forge.

Blue, red, yellow and green flames were produced in mini explosions. A mini fireworks display in itself.

John applauded but could not really see anything. But he was happy to stay with us.

We fired our niece and uncle and they left the house hobbling.

Then, the next day, we went with Paul to choose good big vegetables and made good soup. Pumpkin, zucchini and pea soup.

I loved peas with bacon and pork pork bacon.

And quickly we had German type gemuse soup:

Sausage and bacon in a broth of potatoes and fresh vegetables.

The days passed and I really had to replace the doorframe and add a board to the door.

I knew I was watching myself but I was nailing myself in and I had nails in my mouth and the hammer in my paw. and the other paw was used to hold everything together.

"I'm coming, I screamed."...

A bearded man and a knight and an archer in armour were behind me.

I had completely forgotten that I was a wyvern and I let my guard down.

Auberone was helping John wash in the bathtub. It was really the end.

"I'll be with you in a minute, I'll adjust the door."

Then, when the work is done, I look that it closes well and turns me around: "It's done...Ah.... Don't shoot! I surrender! Please!"

The archer had me in his sights and the magician saw me put myself on the ground and said, "It's okay, she won't hurt us."

"Vermithraxa, it's you! So it was true! I can't believe my eyes! A talking Wyrme, extremely rare and above all a tinkering Wyrme." Amazing.

"Young wyrme, my name is Zanzar, and I am the official magician of the court. I'm coming because of this letter. So you wrote it then...?"

"Yes, Lord Zanzar."

"Ah, and you have good manners.

Show me around."

Me: "We go outside first because Daddy cleans up and my sister takes care of getting him to take a bath"

"So this is the forge I fixed. I converted it into a mini foundry.

Here I separate the impurities from the pure metals. Then here a mini rolling mill to obtain flat sheets.

And here is an engine"

Zanzar: "A motor????"

Yes, I convert heat into movement with water.

Here, we have a turbine that runs very fast. The axis is made of glass to have high speeds and here a movement accumulator. The moment is stored in the flywheel and here the pulley. The one speed regulator with centrifugal weights and a spring to regulate the pressure.

I turn the wheel to increase or decrease the pressure.

Here a transmission belt and a lathe for the cylindrical parts and a milling machine but I haven't finished the assembly.

The one strip drill and the LNG carrier."

Zanzar was afraid: "You know a lot of things I see, they are wonders that are beyond comprehension. What do you intend to do with that?"

"- I was hoping to enter the academy to learn magic and be under your protection. I was born Wyverne, I had no choice. But I would like to have a peaceful life."

"And what will you do with your knowledge?"

"Well, maybe give a mechanics class and I could protect my sister. We like living here with Dad John but he's going to die. He doesn't know it, but it's his heart that lets go and I'd like to make tools to save him but it's impossible on its own."

"Listen, Vermithraxa. I think you're a nice creature and I don't want to hurt you. I will do my best to protect you and your sister at the academy. But the king is full of resentment and you could be in danger right now. It would be nice if you could come now."

"I can't leave Daddy John. He has a few weeks to live at most."

"You just passed your first test. You have a heart.

Welcome to the academy, my child."

"Thank you Lord Zanzar."