Fuchur was the first one to leap at me. I was happy and I asked him, "Fuchur, don't you find my looks disgusting?"

Fuchur said, "Oh, no, you make me hotter the way you look! And he had red on his head, guilty thoughts bursting out of his head."

Me: "Say you don't think..."

Fuchur: "I do and he grabbed me and I couldn't do anything about it and he kissed me hard. I still had my serpentine tongue and it rolled up with his" then I got out of the way so as not to ruin my clothes and I said to him: Fuchur, you still owe me hugs, For the moment it is 1 for Auberone and 0 for me! We'll catch up later and Fuchur followed me like a doggy and I turned to him: "Say, Fuchur, don't you have school???"

That clicked and he ran to another section of the ship, obviously running late!

I laughed and thought if I had to, I'd write him a note... hahahahahaha! "Excuse Fuchur, ma'am, he started to hug me real hard and we didn't see the clock ticking, so please excuse him for being late, Mrs. Fuchur..." SNORT, I started laughing my ass off just thinking about it.

I arrived in front of the Captain's deck door, guarded by two guards who were startled, their hands on their undrawn pistols, and they relaxed when I spoke to them in English and asked permission to see the Captain.

The answer on the intercom was that the captain was waiting for me in his office by the side corridor.

Safety precautions.

But at least I didn't have handcuffs or chains but I guess they had other, less barbaric techniques.

Those wild and violent tricks were a thing of the past. Mankind must have taken a critical leap.

The commander opened the door and I went in.

"But how lovely you are," the commander courted me. A dragon and now a princess. I see you are always full of surprises."

But, are you all right as a human? It's not too disturbing?

"No," I said as if I had always been human.

"Good, because it changes a lot. So you fall under the protection of fundamental human rights. I suppose your sister also falls under the same category...

But your knowledge, let's see, okay math, physics and engineering. You've got 200 years to catch up but here's a personal assistant, an AI. I want you to study the subjects you're compelled to study here, and your sister too. She'll also have to turn into a human or a half.

Fuchur, is already in school.

Our deal still stands, but you're going to work for me. I want you both as my assistant and bodyguard. But first I'd like to test your human form.

"Are you able to resist the vacuum of space as a human without being a dragon?"

We walked to an airlock and Perry explained how it works. There's an automatic and a manual override.

The manual override is a knob that sets the pressure from 100% to 0%...

"Do you understand?"

I lower the pressure and the cold invades me, I think of the fire and my skin turns red and I resist the cold and then the lack of air but mana takes over and and... the pressure is at 0 and I'm still standing, conscious.

Behind me, the space vacuum. The door opens and my wings are opened and, instead of beating the wind, I beat the solar winds. I can move. I'm still in the ship, but in an empty airlock.

Huge discovery. We are cut out to live in space. But we don't communicate, what if our horns are used as antennas????

I'm trying: Fuchur??? Fuchur? Can you hear me? If you can hear me, you come to the airlock.