Meanwhile, a young blonde girl was walking in the city center.

Arriving near St. Paul's Cathedral, she stopped for tea in a tapas bar that brightened up the square in front of the huge shopping center.

On posters one could see the activities of the artists, the singers and concerts to come and often organized at the Forum, an internationally known theater.

"Same world and same singers... So close and so different..."

She had a scarf hiding her hair and brown sunglasses but that was for pure fashion.

She watched the couples come and go and sighed, watching the plate of cured meats diminish in size.

A tear fell. And, as if talking to herself...

"I'm so alone..."

From her purse, she took out the black letter written in gold type... then she sobbed.

A young man stopped.

"Is something wrong, miss?"

The people of Liege were known for their pride and outspokenness, but also for their kindness. Everyone helped everyone else.

It was an industrial and mining town and many immigrants came to start a family here. In the mines and the steel industry, the workers helped each other regardless of their religion or ethnicity. They were all black-faced with soot and that's how Cork became this metropolis that even integrated the dragons...

"Thank you young man, I just got tired, but thank you!"

"I'll come back later, to see if you're feeling better!"

He hailed the waiter.

"A hot chocolate for mademoiselle!"

"NOnn... but.... thanks"

"Nothing like a chocolate to cheer you up."

He waved goodbye and Claudia found herself smiling again...sipping the soft, sweet beverage.

"You'll have sweet dreams tonight..."

She stood up, grabbed her small white purse, matching her jacket, and walked into the mall. On the ground floor, all kinds of beauty items, perfumes, bags of all kinds, there was everything.

She took the escalator, carried away by the flow of shopping and she found herself in the department of plates and wedding list.

She cringed when a saleswoman asked her if she was coming for a list for herself or for friends/family.

"No thanks...just looking."

The plates were beautiful, more beautiful than the one in her palace or the military plates in the Bucephalus.

She looked at the place settings and imagined herself at a party with friends and... away from Mother...

"It never stops... I can't take it anymore.."

She remembered the carnage with the assassins launched in waves against her and her friends, and the members of the powerful Golden Table, a kind of CosaNostra that the Caliph was behind. Even her world was rotten with corruption and every moment was tied to her survival...

But maybe here, in this parallel world, she could find some peace and quiet.

She left the Innovation without shopping and arrived at the center with terraces and mezzanines on several floors, served by escalators.

There was an exhibit of a special kind with a reconstructed farm with giant stuffed pony and farm products.

"Dragon Farm!"

The labels showed all sorts of products from the dragon farm and that inevitably attracted Claudia. Especially since the farm was radiating Mana!

No wonder the products were excellent!

Honey, stuffed animals, photos and selfies and also tickets to come to the Hara and have a guided tour by a dragon in person!

A gigantic line filled the whole ground floor to get into a room with a real dragon inside.

His name was Felix and he was in Anthro form, his size forbidding him to enter the center. And ... too scary.

He was a young dragonet who had fled with the humans out of the academy.

He was 5 years old and was accompanied by other commercials who worked at the 3 Furnaces, the dragon domain. He was maturing faster than the humans and wanted to become a salesman, so he went around the malls to promote the local products and also to get people used to dragons in the society.

He was not afraid, because he was always surrounded by humans and lived in society all his life.

He immediately felt the imposing presence of a dracosire but did not flinch.

He had a jacket and clothes that fit him, like a goblin from a well-known phone brand.

This made him friendly and in a playful mood, he never failed to make the most frightened children laugh.

Adults and colleagues always guided him and told him what to do and he worked confidently.

Of course, like all his friends, he went to school and had a lot of friends. But it was a vacation and he enjoyed the trade fairs and had a lot of fun discovering new things every time

Claudia bought some pâtés and cured meats, rich in mana and asked for a selfie with Felix the Dragon.

Their eyes met and Felix flinched. He let out a little whimper like a dominated dog.

He knew that right in front of him was a terrifying creature that could break him with a snap of its claws.

She probed him and looked for mischief in him but found nothing.

A mental link was established.

"So you are Felix!??? and in Anthro form..."

The humans were frightened and moved away, in fact only the colleagues.

Claudia adjusted her "Presence" just to be alone with the dragon.

"What are you doing here! This is not your world!"

Felix didn't know what to say.

He shouted "MOMAN! Please!!!"

Claudia sat up straight while staring with slitted eyes at the young dragon...

But her reaction was more than human... and Claudia (Darkia) relaxed her shoulders.

"I'm not here to hurt you, young dragon... but I am investigating your kind.."

Expecting a fierce reaction of self-defense, typical of dragons..

Felix "Don't hurt my family... I beg you... I will do anything you want..."

Darkia relaxed..

"You seem like a nice dragon... who are your parents.. Where are they?"

"This is Manuel, my daddy.."

"Ah. Is your daddy a black dragon like you?

"No... he's a priest! Well, an apprentice, in training at the Vatican..."

Darka was speechless...

"Vatican?"

"Yes... we are all baptized! We are not wild animals and I go to school!"

She crouched down.

"Sorry, Felix... I didn't mean to scare you but I need to know how you got here!"

"I don't know...I was too little...go to the Farm! but please...don't hurt Torin or the others..."

She then gave the dragonet a kiss on the forehead and walked away. "I promise, I won't hurt them."

Felix had a hard time getting back and his colleagues almost jumped on him to console him.

He cried and the selfies were postponed until the next day.

"Felix? Felix? Who was that? I've never been so scared in my life... even you or Exodus. It was terrible..."

"It was an Arch-Dragon. A dragon god... I was so scared....I'm scared.. Amandine.. I'm scared...I'm scared...

Turn on the lights... it's dark la la la and la!!!"

Her friends looked at each other..

"Do you want to go home?"

"Yes!" he cried, not wanting to stop.

Amandine took her phone and called Rubix.

"Rubix??? Am I not disturbing you?"

Rubix was helping Torin on the farm to study for his agronomy exams...

"No, I'm with my honey...we're studying together... Is something wrong???"

"It's Felix... since he's been alone without Manu, he's terrified."

Rubix : "Yes, I know... he's still little..."

Amandine: "No, it's more serious... There's an Arch-Dragon that has just arrived at the exhibition... And Félix almost pisses himself and I had to run away because I was so scared..."

Rubix ... "Another dragon??? but that's impossible... the portal is destroyed!!! How was this dragon?"

Amandine : "It was a young blonde girl with long hair. She was shopping and came directly on Felix. I should have protected him but it was impossible. It was stronger than with Exodus or Valtrax! So much stronger... I was crushed!!!"

Rubix breathed quietly, thinking.

"Any other details?"

"Uh, it felt like a black mass of darkness...like a volcano was crushing me but it also felt familiar, like I knew it but couldn't remember who...but it felt like thousands of teeth, like it was going to break us and tear us apart...

I'm scared now too and she said she was going to come see you at the farm...and she asked poor Felix, how you got here..."