On the table coffee, water and orange juice. Mignonettes and I had been eyeing them for a while.

I had a sweet tooth.

Usually adult blahs blahs were handled by Exodus, Valtrax or Ragul...

But here I was confronted with the harsh reality of adults and under pressure, I started to cry in front of everyone.

I was terrified. An unknown world, an existence of lies, I could not distinguish reality from fantasy and I was lost. My wives were the only ones to calm me down and comfort me a little.

I suffered without understanding anything and I went where I was told to go without asking questions. I was as if cut off from the world, uprooted, disoriented, disoriented in my nature and I cried out for Mama Esme...even before Valtrax.

I put myself in a corner of the room, in a ball and did not move anymore.

Rubix was freaking out about my contaminating fear.

Sapphia kept her cool against all odds and it was naturally to her that the professor, his assistant and the general looked.

Sapphia lowered her head.

"Torin and Rubix are really scared. Torin has only been a dragon for six months...and it's a trauma for him... He was always a dragon but didn't know it and was raised by Ragul and Esme, and a little bit by me."

The teacher was dumbfounded How was this possible?

"Rubix is also very scared. She is very smart but she is traumatized. Instead of growing naturally, she has slowed her growth to remain as human as possible.

She has clung to Torin as a lifeline. Too smart and having a bipedal posture instead of a quadruped, she was rebellious and didn't want to be trained like a foal.

She wanted to join the humans at the academy and become a dragon knight like the dragon riders.

It was either that or the salt mines where she had been sold and it was blindness, sawed horns and sawed wings that awaited her. A horrible and cruel fate. So she hung on!

Lucien, knowing the hard military training of the knight candidates at that time, admired the courage of the "little" creature. But also admired Torin and Saphie because they too were knighted.

The military man remained thoughtful and saw that we behaved relatively human and were not "vicious, devious aliens as portrayed in science fiction movies and stories."

Then the fateful question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

Saphie replied, "I'm a knight, but here it's useless, except flying on my husband's back.... But daddy taught me blacksmithing .."

The teacher explained that there were many trades involving metalwork such as boilermaker, welder, general mechanics, but also blacksmith and ironwork and agricultural. where they repaired agricultural machinery, trailers, plows and systems. There were training courses and technical schools in agricultural sciences.

I came out of my ball, understanding a little the questions.

"I was a farmer with Dad and we raised horses...but I'm in over my head. Everything is so different.."

Rubix snapped out of her slumber and it... "Yes.. I like computers..programs.. I would like to learn."

The soldier then asked, "Don't you want to stay together?"

Rubix resumed: "We're hungry...and we have a problem...here, the wilderness...it's hard and...there's so much to discover...we don't know where to start...and...I'd like to go, well, WE'd like to go to school...we don't know anything about here."

Lucien "So you stay together why? And it looks like you're building an army...explain."

Rubix couldn't use magic this time and the lie would be immediately pierced.

"That's mom Valtrax and Exodus... They are the smart ones and they know what to do or say but I don't know.. it's hard.."

Minet: "Come on, child. try to answer the question and everything will be fine. no one here will hurt you.."

"We're a family and... A dragon has many females... It's always been..but we're a family basically and we ran away from persecution and. and "

Lucien: "Yet with your strength, you could have revolted...and demolished the humans..."

"We are not monsters...but the humans had subjugated us and placed training collars on us from birth in incubators...in batteries.."

Lucien :"!!!!"

the professor let a tear fall.

Lucien: "We will let you go back but you can visit the city with Benoît. Then you will follow Professor Minet's instructions to the letter.

However, I want to KNOW. What power do you use to "hypnotize" humans? Is it to eat them?

We got down on our stomachs.

"Noooo. we don't do that... but we've never eaten humans... well, not that I know of."

Minet: "Then how did I get confidence like that? How can you explain it..."

Saphie came to the rescue.

"At the military academy, we learned charm techniques to make monsters less aggressive, and scrolls of scrolls with runes and we were afraid of being put in a cage or shot. It makes you friendly, like you're buddies, but it doesn't control anything. It's necessary to avoid being beaten on sight..."

The general grumbled, "Yes... I understand but I want to see a copy of the scroll..."

The "pill" was finally swallowed.

The general had his answer,

We, our secret was preserved then the last question.

"How from 10 you are 30 plus the humans?" Tomorrow you will be 1000?"

"The passage is destroyed and this is all that remains of our people. Those who remained, sad to say, but they are now just wild animals or domesticated. Those who were smart ran away and got through while the gate was open."

Lucien tapped his ballpen in all directions and replied, "What if I told you that we know how to break down a door to get back home?"

We screamed in terror!

"We'll be your slaves and do whatever you want, but we don't want to be crushed.

Minet turned around, "This doesn't make any sense!"

Rubix, who knew a little about her cell phone, "I don't want to go back in the box... I don't want to go back to being a floppy disk!"

And she started screaming, looking for the exit.

I jumped on, calming her down.

"No, Rubix. They are soldiers. They are protecting their King and they want to know, that's normal."

I turned to the screen.

"General Lucien. We will swear fealty to your king who will be ours! We want to live. To go back is to die!"

It made no sense to Lucien.

Everything made sense now.

We were like boot peoples, we drifted through a dimensional doorway and ended up here like a big pile.

That's why we were screaming Asylum, Asylum!

We were stateless refugees and also Aliens!...But we knew English and it didn't make sense...

A computer scientist brought a box of a video game...an old, not very old game...

With the spitting image of Exodus and of me, at the same time.

"The general stood up and became furious, forgetting about the camera.

"Today I've got Exodus on my back and tomorrow you're going to tell me that Pac-Man is going to come screaming for me?

He sat down hard, looking at the map and the notes and reports. In the box were lead figurines, and a cloth map.

"Are you from Cove? East of Britannia??"

We nodded...

"And you're going to tell me that Mondain, the big bad guy, is the one who came to visit you last night with his fairy tale car?"

We nodded.

"I want to see if you bleed or if it's pixels that fall to the ground. I've seen the movie Pixel and at this point, I have to know if you're envoys of an alien madman who's messing with our heads!"

We stretched our paw and let the needle sting us.

Red blood flowed into the syringe.

Lucien: "Professor Minet, I want a complete medical file! I want to see what's behind these scales or witchcraft. I want facts and not a fairy tale."

In front of his screen, the general yelled at us. "YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!"

You come out of a box and bam you're here and when we want to get you in, you don't agree?

Then he looked online at Mondain, Minox and EXODUS and turned pale...

"Your father is Exodus... The big bad dragon...? the end boss?"

We breathed without saying anything.

"ANSWER!" but the speakers crackled, unable to convey the general's anger.

Sapphia fell to her knees... "Please!"

General: "If I hear of so much as a breath of fire or anything supernatural coming out of any of you, I promise to send you to the bottom of a nuclear waste mine or you will be sealed away for the end of time...

I expect to see only nice lizards who will go to school and better come out with a degree.

Until then : Medical checkup and be done with it!"

In his anger, the general had forgotten to ask how I had reduced my size...

He had his eyes on Mondain and his financial empire... but mostly his ambitions and how he got rich unusually fast. we were very big targets but secondary and we kept a low profile.

But I was afraid of the doctors. Where I came from, they were quacks and sellers of dangerous elixirs.

So we went into an examination room and had blood and skin smears taken from our mouths, saliva and X-rays taken, a head scan, the rest didn't come in, well, if by squeezing the wings.

It was a comedy and I vomited with the contrast liquid.

For the rest, the genitals, we were left alone, there was a limit. Moreover, in reptile, it was not like that that it worked... It was necessary to be excited and... I was far from it. I was dying of fear and that they put pipes in all the holes...

Rubix showed her teeths once and they did not insist. A little claw/claw could be devastating...

At first glance we were dinosaurs...and Saphie, a normal human except that our musculature and cells were denser, stronger.

Officially, we were dragonsaurus, a new species that survived the extinction... A mixture of raptor, pterodactyl and having a convergent evolution as for humanity. That's what our genes said.

De facto, we were a species in immediate danger of extinction because of the small number of individuals.

We became citizens with the rights and duties of Europeans, but we were also considered under the protection of the species and this took precedence over our rights, but in order to protect us.

We returned by special military bus and in the evening we went back to our family and were asked a thousand and one questions.

Dad had to reconsider his ambitions and the first draconic council was created

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