Damsels and Dragons

Chapter 14 - On Wings Black as Night (unfinished)

I was a bit sad I couldn't keep the pouch with me, but I trusted Daniel to hold onto it. After all he and Millicent gave it to me.

My books talked about friendship plenty, about people you were close to and liked you and helped. I wondered if Liv, Daniel, and Millicent were my friends. Maybe I should ask them, but also am I supposed to ask? People in the books always just knew, so maybe they aren't my friends yet?

I was left in the clearing near the tower. There was still a while before night so I needed to find stuff to do. I could try fixing the ground. Tristan was the only one who seemed fine with the upturned earth. I started patting the ground flat with my hands crawling around trying to make the place look even remotely as nice as it once had.

I used to spend plenty of time looking out the windows of the tower at place. It was the edge of my known world. Having flown around I now knew this was almost nothing compared to the valley, and there's even more to the world than that! I was torn between wanting to see knew things and wanting to hide in the place that I had known my whole life.

That first night in the woods was terrifying, every noise freaked me out and I didn't fall asleep for a while. It helped that apparently all the dangerous animals and monsters were scared of me now. Last night I got to sleep by the tower which made me feel safer. Tonight I was going to sleep in a barn, a building I could fit in. It must be huge like a castle.

Having gotten the ground patted down, and turning up some of the grassy bits so it was green again, the clearing still looked bad, but it was better and people could walk on it. My hands were kind of dirty. My black scales covered in brown dirt.

My skin used to be so light like Daniel's. Liv had tan skin like Linda, and Millicent was even darker than that. Now I had really dark black scales. The only had a hint of purple when there was light to shine off of them. I wondered what my face looked like now. I had horns and a snoot and sharp teeth but I still didn't get what it all looked like together. I wonder if there are mirrors.

I used to have a mirror in the tower until I broke it. I was trying to move it so I didn't have to look at myself as much and I dropped it. A lot of the mirror shards ended up in my stash. Linda never got a new one so I hadn't gotten a good look at myself in years.