A Dramatic Turn of Events

“Guten Abend liebe Damen und herren,
willkommen im ICE nach Köln, Oberhauen und Amsterdam. Das Bistro befindet sich
in der Mitte des Zuges.” A male steward’s voice sounded through the speakers of
the train while thundered along the tracks. The soft buzz of the train’s
engines while the train roared past the German landscape.  A average length male was sitting at the back
of the train, the cabin quiet just as he liked it. His caustic skin covered
with a black ‘Disturbed’ T-shirt, a pair of worn Jeans supported with a fabric
belt. He was well on weight, not fat but he had a good layer of protective
substance on his bones. His blonde middle length hair covered under an
yellow-grey bandana. He was just on his way back from a trip to Berlin,
visiting some of his friends. He enjoyed visiting Germany. He took a sip of his
Beck’s beer, enjoying the trip back while Rammstein played through his
headphones. It was late in the evening and the world outside was dark. many a
person were asleep inside the train, curtains closed to the world outside. 

Yet the peaceful night was not going to
last. As the train reached top speed they passed a track junction, while the
sound of metal on metal passed through the train as if it was a cold warning of
what was going to happen. People shook awake from their sleeps from the sound
disturbing their night’s rest, yet before anyone could react, before the train
could break a violent forced the track aside causing the train split up mid
sectioned between two tracks. The train was scissored while the cabins smashed
into each other. Luggage and people were thrown like they were nothing, fear
jumped through the passengers of the train when it thundered towards the fatal
crash. Windows lit up with the glow of heated metal sparks from the wheels when
the breaks tried the best they could to stop the train.

Nothing stopped, a train like a concrete
bridge and only managed to slow it down by a mere fraction but not enough when
it hit the concrete pillars of the overpass of the Autobahn. Screams filled the
train when the middle segments where smashed against the pillars with a brute
force. Strong metal support beams bent and broke like straws, wit in a split
second the train transformed into a metal wreckage. Only the front and back had
been saved from the worst of the damage. Yet fate proofed a tricky mistress
when the concrete pillars of the overhead autobahn collapsed on top of the
middle carriages, crushing them and everyone who was inside. Overhead Cars and
busses fell from the autobahn because they were not able to break in time to
avoid the gaping mess.

Dazed and confused the blonde man in the
back taken up, he was thrown against the walls of his cabin, his own luggage
thrown on top of him. His song still playing from his headphones, it was the
only sound in the aftermath of the accident. “…Ich warte heir. Stirb nicht vor
mir…” the lyrics slowly played along like nothing had happened. The image was
surreal for him while he tried to pull through his luggage. When he moved his
large black plastic trunk he was smashed into the face by an old looking brown
leather back. In his Dazed state he looked at the back, a strange symbol burned
into the leather. It looked an awful lot like a dragon’s head, But Dion was
more intrigued by the writing under the symbol. Letters that seemed to come
straight out a medieval pressed book formed his name, not just his front name,
his complete name;  Dion, Alexander
Huisman. it could not be from another passenger, his Dutch name was unique and
in some parts of the Netherlands an unusual name. the bag more and more
intrigued him while the crash seemed something in second importance.

Only when he heard the calling of a women
he was snapped out his trance. “Hilfe mir! Jedermann, Helfe mir!” The women
cried out. It came from further on in the cabin. Dion stood up, climbing over
the luggage that had piled on him.  his
right hip felt rather painful but he could not care less, doddering he
scaled  to the women. She was buried
under a mountain of heavy luggage that took him a good amount of time to dig
through. 

He pulled the black tinted women out
without effort. She was slim in build and had a nasty head wound. Lucky she did
not have any wounds to the neck else she might have been paralysed by Dion.
Together they made their way to the first available exit.  Right behind the silent compartment of the
train. The door of the train was pointing skywards and the pneumatics were
destroyed. He broke the safety glass and pulled the leaver to release the door
mechanics. Working above his head it took him a great deal of time to open it.
The door swung aside and the fresh daylight flooded the compartment. Dion could
smell the freedom and he helped the women onto the side of the train.

Dion himself wanted to get out of the train
but he suddenly saw the bag in the corner of his eye.  The bag being a mystery to him was too
temptations for him to leave back in the train. He struggled to collect the bag
and get out of the train. The cold hard reality of what happened struck him
like lighting. Dion could finally see how lucky he was. The part that was
before him was covered with electrical wires of the train’s high voltage
system. Further along the middle of the train the viaduct had crumbled on the
train and crushed the compartment like a can of empty soda. In the distance the
sirens were coming closer and the residents from the nearby houses on the sides
of the tracks rushed in to help.  Into
the distance along the tracks that they came from he could see the lights of
another train halted, just in time to brake and avoid crashing into the already
crashed train.

“komm!” The dark tinted women said to him
in German. She wanted to help the unfathomable stranger that helped her. She
supported him not to fall off when he scaled along the gears and wheels of the
train down on solid ground.  The scene
seemed to be stopped in time when he walked away from the wreck on to the sides
of the tracks. Within minutes the place was filled with rescue workers, Dion
was pulled aside by a German doctor who spoke English with a heavy accent “Are
Sie alright?” he asked Dion while the doctor forced his eyes open to look at a
light. “follow ze light” the doctor said while he was shining the small torch
light side to side, then up and down. Dion had no great difficulty doing so yet
his mind was set on something else when he glared past the doctor again and up
to the train wreck.

The doctor said something to the Paramedics
when he pointed at the location of Dion’s presence “…Posttraumatische
Belastungsstörung…” Were the only words he could understand from the doctor
when the Paramedics walked to him and gave him a silver foil blanket for
whatever reason they deemed necessary. With the leather bag securely in his
hand he walked off to the direction the Paramedics guided him, a conga line of
ambulances that were all too busy helping out those who made it out. He was
taken all the way at the front of the row to a bright yellow normal car with a
blue serine on it. When he was strapped in he was driven off by someone who
didn’t quite looked like a paramedic. What could he expect with such an
disaster? He was not hurt nor near death and thus he was only of minor
importance.

The sirens of the car roaring out loud to
make the cars move out the way and the blue luminance of the warning light
reflecting off the sides. Lights from the cars and surroundings flashed by when
he was glaring into the void of the night. It was well past midnight when he
arrived at the hospital, helped by a nurse he was rushed inside.  He was not the first of the crash to arrive.
others had also gathered, some were brought by civilians and others where
rushed through the halls to the operation room with bleeding bodies and life
support systems hooked up. Notaufnahme he could read on the signs while he was
guided into a white room. He was flushed by doctors, they examined his body to
see what was wrong with him, the bag still standing aside on a table. Dion kept
on glaring at the mystic bag, wondering how long it would be before he could go
home.

Two weeks passed before Dion was finally
home. The whole ordeal with the train left him tainted while he laid in bed
trying to fall asleep but to no avail. It was his first night home and
everything felt strange while he rolled around to find a position to sleep in.
Again he rolled to the side to where he saw the leather bag, a ray of moon
light falling on the bag as if it looked like it begged to be open. Growling he
got up to get the bag. He sat down alongside the bed to open the back finally,
his hands were shaking while he unhooked wooden stick that held it closed. 

The content of the bag was even more a
mystery to him then the bag itself. He reached his hand inside to take hold of
a warm hard surface. He pulled it out to reveal it was an oval shaped gemstone,
the surface perfectly smooth. He held the Stone in the moonlight to inspect it.
It was black with a white vine like structure running across the surface,
nothing like he ever seen before. The stone reflected the moon light like it
was a phantom of time itself. Heavy it was not; no doubt it was hollow. Yet it
didn’t seem like any stone that was porous.

A soft bell like tone filled the room when
he knocked softly on the stone, hollow it was for sure but it also sounded like
it was filled with something, a fluid of some kind. The sound was not sharp
like one would expect from a stone but it was rather a warm smooth flowing tone.  Interested even more in the stone he took the
second stone out of the back. Besides the colouring it was identical; this
gemstone was navy blue but covered with the same vine like structure. He
wondered what force of nature could produce such similarity in different
colours.

The third stone was also identical but
deeply green of main colour. The stones where all roughly the same size and
weight. The moon reflected of all stones just like the other, without question
it frightened Dion. He was no stranger to the unknown but the unknown to
involve him in name was something that made his hairs stand up right. “What are
these?” He grunted to himself like someone was with him, if the stones could
hear him. The thought was not so strange because they seemed alive, he couldn’t
explain with rational thoughts it just seemed like that. Something spectral
overcame his subconscious thoughts digging up anxiety that seemed not to be his
own.

Sleep. music to Dion’s ears; even with his
mind still on the trauma of the crash he could think of nothing else. His brain
pulled into a struggle of an alien thought of sleep and its own need to explain
what was going on. Yet the alien feeling of sleep was like a drug, numbing his
fingers, drowning his mind with a dense fog of random thoughts. His vision
turned blurry before going completely black, his lungs felt like they were on
fire, as though he could not get air. Even the endless stream of thoughts seem
to fade away when his body was no longer controlled by himself, controlled  by the orbit of the earth. Gravity took over
causing him to fall backwards. The whole feeling was in slow motion for him,
slowly fading, slowly falling. Last he could feel was the weight of the stones
on his chest, the last he could feel was the world spinning. After that;

Nothing

Nothing turned into everything when his
senses sharpened, the sense of the feeling of grass ,the gentle breeze of the
warm air over his body. He could feel it all but it was an alien feeling. A
feeling that was not his own but he seemed to be the one who felt it. His
eyelids and muscles not responding to his command, the burning feeling in his
body not fading. The train of thought flew back into his brain like maple syrup
over a piece of electronics, tainting his thoughts and was difficult to remove
once there.

The sound of leaves make their intro into
his ears, the crystal clear truth of this presence of not being in his trusted
home frightened his already anxious mind. The fear overcame him when he tried
to get up, his breath quickened, his body shook. Sadly to no avail because his
body still kept being firmly on the ground. Yet some light could be seen, quite
literally one might say; his eyelids opened letting the first rays of daylight
into his eyes. It took moments before Dion could see the surrounding through
the light. He was in a forest ever so green; it was surprising to him to see
such a forest. Great loaf trees around him but far more green then he could
remember. It seemed like he was looking through a filter, but strangely for him
the filter made everything sharper for him. Was he wearing glasses? No, he
could feel nor see those.

Suddenly a sound from the distance made
Dion stiffen up. he was well aware that he is in no condition to fight even a
little rabbit. He hoped it was a rabbit. The sound of leaves shaking and
something walking in the bushes came closer to him and Dion was forced to
listen to it. he could not even turn his head around to look at whatever came
to him. Now the strange form was out of the bushes and walked among the grass,
without doubt to where Dion was. He held his breath, listing to the creature
approaching. It stood still next to him, Dion felt hot breath washing over his
face from the creature.

A scaled head popped into his view. Dion
could not scream but it didn’t stop him from trying though but all he could
manage was a puff of air from his lounges. Even more fear came over him, he
could not even scream, how was he supposed to communicate to anyone? Or save
him from this creature, a creature that looked a bit too much like a dragon.
The scaled head had the shapes of a dragon yet the facial construction where
more humanoid, eyes at the front instead of at the sides. The neck more at a
ninety degree angle from the mouth, indicating it was a two legged creature.

“Svabol re Wux tirir tenpiswo?” the
draconic creature asked Dion without any doubt that he could not understand it.
Dion was relieved that the creature could talk but it still was a strange
tongue he could not even understand. When he tried to answer only a gasping
sound was audible to anyone. “Creolna itrewica Dout Ooble?” The creature asked
again. Dion at least could understand it was saying something else. 

The creature moved, it laid it’s clawed
hands up on Dion’s body and pulled on it. To him it was shown that the creature
had a great strength when it dragged Dion across the ground. It was even
careful not to hurt him. It could be interesting, this strange creature. Dion
even forgotten the worries of no longer being anywhere he could recognize.

The creature pulled Dion against the base
of a tree so he was positioned up right. Now he could see the Dragon much
better. It had wings and a deep navy blue hue of its scales. The chest
consisted out of an great deal of grey heavy chest plates. Everything looked
like it was wearing heavy armour yet it was all natural. Yet the thing that
drawn Dion’s attention where the eyes, a deep purple colour with black slit
like pupils in the centre. Only when he could overcome the glare of the
dragon’s stare that he could see that it was not wearing any clothing. It made
Dion blush a bit and he hoped the dragon could not pick up to him
embarrassment. God knows what would happen if it did.

The dragon however seemed to get something
else in mind. She walked over the place where Dion awakened from his sleep and
picked up three objects. Only when she came back Dion could see that they were
the strange stones he had had in his room the other night. “douta?” it showed
the stones. Dion nodded, then was overcame with joy as he could control some of
his body again. Yet the joy was too soon as he now could look down. What he saw
struck terror like nothing ever could. Instead of his cloths and his body he
could see scales. The ruby coloured scales covered what looked like his own
body.

“Ifpesp vhira!” the dragon shouted as it
could see Dion’s fear. it brought a clawed hand to his face and touched his
cheek. A wave of warmth flooded his mind, calming Dion. Within minutes a sweet
female voice flooded his mind, it was like the dragon’s voice only much more
warm in tone without the growling noises. “Petranas, ifpesp vhira” The voice
repeated. Dion refused to believe the voice, or his own thought that the voice
might be from the dragon. He tried to say something in his mind as loud as
possible -Go away!- He shouted in his mind with all his might.

The dragon seemed to make a frown at the
mental shout, unclear if it was surprised or angry. “You don’t speak Draconic?”
The switch of language was a surprise to Dion that made him take moments to
overcome. The voice, seemingly coming from the dragon, sensed his disturbance
and waited. “n…no…I am not a dragon! Who are you? Why are you in my head”
Dion  was acting like a cornered cat
snarling at a danger.

The dragon pointed at herself “Ira,
Rakshasi” The dragon said. Dion, without knowing a thing about dragons, could
not judge if it was a name given to women or men. The voice he heard in his
head did not help to determent the dragon’s gender, it sounded way to
different. In return Dion wanted to pronounce his name but the gasps changed
into growls. His body responded to some of his commands.

The dragon seemed to be rather amused by
this unintelligent conjugate of noise. It seemed rather patient with him. “Your mouth fails with your words
red-scale?” Dion concluded that the voice in his mind must be from the
dragon. In further thought he was sure that the dragon was a female but not
sure why the voices he heard in his mind and with his ears where to much
different.

“Dion”  he managed to say towards
the dragoness. The mental link to communicate seemed odd, why couldn’t she just
speak English; why she had to ‘think’ the words to him. he wanted to ride on
the waves of his thought if they were not broken by the voice of the dragon
again. “Strange name for a dragon”

“I am
not a dragon!” Dion protested, much to his own
surprise, or fear, he made a protesting roar at the remark. “You have scales, wings, a tail and some nice
long talons. Sure you are, although you smell strange” the dragoness in front
of him continued. The proof of it was provided by her taking up one of his
‘hands’ to wave in front of his face. He could see no normal hand; a scaled,
clawed something made up what used to be his hand. The clawed apparatus got
opposable thumbs much like any other member of the Homidae family. Yet he was
not even sure if he was himself a member of the mammal kingdom anymore.

“I am
a human, I ensure you.” Dion grunted in denial
under the evidence that was presented to him. “I pray you do not take this as an insult…” The dragoness started
her words “…but I think you have had a
great whack on the head with something” her intelligent eyes kept a strong
gaze at him, making him feel a bit unconvertible under the dragoness.

“I
was born human! With skin and all! I don’t even know how I came here or who you
are!” The protest of Dion went on with much
distress. “Look Dion, I know just as many
answers as you do. I beg you not to feel distressed but best is to get you to
the town’s mage. I pray to hope he got at least a start for where to look to
find the answers you seek.” She tried to comfort him with some promises he
was sure that she could not totally deliver on. “And I already told you my name Rakshasi.”

“And
you accuse me of having a weird name” Dion said
while he tried to regain control of his arms again. It did took him some effort
before he could even move a finger, yet his paralysis seemed to wear off.  “You
come from a land far away?” Rakshasi asked while she over looked the
recovery of the strange dragon.

“I
don’t know, I come from a kingdom called ‘the Netherlands’” Dion answered Rakshasi. He tried not to think about his strange
body to much as he tried to move. Everything seemed to just jump to life one
after another, like a switch was turned on. He finally could move his arms and
clawed hands and he used them to move his body into a more comfortable
position. On the tree, his head tilted slightly to the side so his eyes were
directed up on the eggs.

“The
Netherlands? I never heard of that. How is it like?” she asked Dion with a interested tone in her voice. Her eyes
followed to where ever Dion was looking, she eyed the stones and gave a small
smile. “You remember who the lucky one
is?” She gave a small smile at the stones, an odd tone Dion could not place
vibrated through her voice. A tone of cheer with a hint of jealously and
something that could be best described from a mother watching over someone’s
child.

It was that by now Dion had an idea what
Rakshasi spoke of; yet he refused to believe it. “I beg your pardon? Lucky one, how do you mean that?” A shiver ran
through his voice. “I mean the eggs!”
Rakshasi pointed over at the stones  “Who is the lucky dragoness who laid those
eggs”

Dion could not believe his ears, in a
figure of speech, from what he had been told. If the stones were really eggs
why did someone never claim the? Why he was now here after touching them? Maybe
they were poisonous and he was still asleep? But again if he was asleep how
could he know they were eggs.  His mind
started to hurt by only thinking about it. A blur was visible as Rakshasi tried
to gain his attention once more “Dion,
beg you pay more attention to me” She snapped Dion out of his stream of
thoughts

“No” he said hastily “They are not
my eggs…I found them in a train crash and a bag fell onto me with my name on it
so I took it.” He said as casually like one would name the groceries that
should be collected

“What
is a train?” She asked perplexed at the new word.

Dion shivered at the thought. If she didn’t
know a what a train was, what else she did not know? Even more, how he was
going to explain  a train. He was no
teacher, he had no images of any trains and he had no ideals to how to describe
a train. “uhm well it is a series of
connected carriages that move along on a steel track…I can’t think of any other
way to explain.” He hoped his explanation would satisfy Rakshasi, he could
not think of a more basic explanation for a train. “Fascinating” she simply said “And
you use it for granted? Isn’t that very expensive? Are you of  a noble blood line then?” She streamed in
questions. Dion grew a bit dizzy from the questions. All he wanted was a bit of
rest to get used to his form. 

“No
it is mass transportation…you know commoners use trains to get to their
job." He managed to grunt out. His mouth was
not the only thing to grunt through; his stomach made loud growling noise of
hunger. Rakshasi got the hint and stretched out her clawed hand to him “Come, I have still some of my prey left in
my lair. You can eat there”

The prospect of entering a dragon’s cave
did not exactly put his mind at ease but she seemed not too dangerous on a
second look. Maybe Dion’s strange transformed body would resist some of the
damage she could do and maybe she would not hurt him at all in this form. With
a moment of doubt he moved his own clawed hand over to grab the one presented
to him. With a strength Dion never experienced before Rakshasi lifted him from
the ground.  She gave him a good time to
balance up on his feet.Dion had to get used to this new way of standing and as
he looked behind he saw an emerald tail together with a set of bat-like wings.

“Easy,
I pray that you don’t try to walk now.” She put his
mind at ease. "Just try to lean
over, don’t walk straight up like one of those humans. Let your tail and wings
be the counter weight.” She advised him like a mother would do with her
children.  Dion was terrified of leaning
far over, afraid he would fall face down in the dirt; yet much to his surprise
he did not fall. It was not that Rakshasi held his body, it was an odd weight
just above his derriere. He philosophised that this weight must be his tail.
once stable he looked at the dragoness next to him who held him close. “Good now try to walk, I guide you.”

It was odd to walk bent far over and the
tail behind him threw him off balance on more than one occasion. If it was not
for Rakshasi to support him he would have had some nasty bruises from falling.
The forest they walked through was green and the sun was smiling down on them.
Clearly it could have been a worse day. Never the less Dion could not get his
head away from the fact that he was removed from his home. His rational mind
telling him he was dreaming, yet looking to the side seeing the dragon in all
detail was something that told him that he could not be dreaming. Right?

Dion could not tell how far they walked,
the forest disorientated him and his stumbling along the ground to try to walk
made matters even worse. Never the less they finally arrived at the cave. it
was not a cave in the side of a great mountain as one would believe. It was
just a hole in the ground so to speak. Stones made up an arc, dirt covered the
arc and made it blend into the surroundings. The tunnel was dug down into the
dirt. It was surely dark inside and Dion would not think how he was going to
see where he was walking in there.

“Come” Rakshasi said as he guided Dion into her lair. The ground changed
from leaf covered ground to something hard and more stone like. He did not
expect the hard surface he walked on, to his mind mud would be more the logic.
While he was guided in, the light outside disappeared but he could still see.
Amassed by this he looked around. The walls where covered with stone slaps just
like the ground showing evidence that someone did put quite an effort in
building this lair. Rakshasi walked with him to a chamber at the back of the
lair. The chamber was round, within the middle a pit. “Sit here please” Rakshasi guided him down to sit at the edge of the
pit. With great care he did what he was told and he looked over at what she
would do. She took something from a pile, in this chamber it was too dark for
him to see what she took. Rakshasi walked over to the pit and threw the
material into the pit. From the sound that the falling object had made Dion
could conclude that it was wood.

What happened next scared Dion; Rakshasi
opened her mouth and spat a bright purple flame onto the wood. The heat was
immense and the wood caught fire within seconds. His eyes were flooded by the
warm light from the fire. He could see that above the pit there was something
like a chimney all the way to the surface but he did not see light through it. “Now we can see something” Her voice
danced in his mind. “Let me get you
something to eat” And with those words she disappeared into a small doorway
at the right of Dion.

He could not believe what he saw in the
chamber. It was clearly built with some kind of knowledge of architecture. The
ceiling was shaped like a dome to keep the dirt up and the walls where made up
from red painted stone slaps. Even when it was just a dragon’s lair it had
great care put into it. He wondered what else she might have. A bed? Maybe even
something to bathe in? It would not surprise him anymore. He wondered if she
was smart or it was just the standard of the species. Clearly she was different
from what he was used to, besides from her being a dragon.

Rakshasi came back moments later with half
a deer, still raw. She presented it to Dion “here
we go” she smilled kindly at him and presented the deer. Dion looked at the
raw meat with a face of disgust, he never liked raw meat, everything for him
should be cooked. “Like this?” he
asked with a shivering voice. “You are a
dragon now Dion, pray you eat it raw. What ever happened to you I don’t know
but you must at least adept to dragon life. Our body can’t deal with cooked
food that great.”

Dion gave a growl to let her know he heard
her. His clawed hand took a grip in the raw meat, blood still gushed out of it.
With a disgusted face he brought it up to his mouth and took a bite. The taste;
not what he expected, he did try raw meat before but it was never like this. If
this was because his body changed or because of the meat itself he did not know
but he loved it. He did not even mind the blood that was accumulating at either
side of his yaw. Bite after bite he devoured the meat until only the skin and
bones were left.

“I
told you it was good” Rakshasi said with a smirk. “This is what we eat, in lairs is where we
sleep. I suppose you can stay with me. Ot is nice to have someone to talk to
after being around humans for so long. Even when the dragon in question can’t
speak our language.”

“that
reminds me…” Dion started after Rakshasi was
finished “...where I come from Dragons
were hunted in the western culture. How come you are able to be around humans?
Is dragon slaying banned here?” Clearly he struck a sensitive tone, a growl
emanated from her. Her words filled with a shiver best described as someone
grieving. “dragon slaying is still
around…I lost my mate to the slayers even before we bonded…”

“I
am…” But he was shut up by Rakshasi with a simple
motion of her hand. “but to answer your
question, I made a deal with the village. I keep the roads safe for the traders
and they send a ‘slayer’ around to keep the king happy. In the end I give a few
claw and burn marks at the slayer and he leaves with no ill feelings. It kept
me safe so far. The king doesn’t really care about this village and so long he
doesn’t make a more active campaign against us dragons I can live here.”

“But
why?” Dion pondered “Why are you…wait we, I need to get used to this body, hunted like some
sort of pest” The answer was filled with an angry growl from the depth of
her body. “Since a hundred years back the
humans embraced a new god and those who oppose are being burned. The new
religion is nothing then poison. They hypnotised the people in believing and
giving of their hard earned money. The king does not even do something, I bet
he is just in on the fortune. The church of the new believe started to say that
everyone who is not human is a son of the ‘devil’. Whoever that might be,  and should be exterminated. Wizards and
witches fear for their lifes now, in the capital there is a burning every day.”

“Religion…makes
people blind.” Dion said with a sour tone in his
mind “Dion please tell me that where you
come from this is not happening.” Rakshasi had a hopeful look in her eyes,
a look he had to run sad. “I hate to
bring it to you, but even with the knowledge my place offers people are still
turned blind from the science. It is as if people want to believe they are
important, that humans are the centre of the whole universe."

The next question was nothing more than a
logical conclusion to the conversation.
“do you believe? I mean as human you don’t sound like one that believes in a
god…why aren’t you burned as heretic then?”

“oh
dear…well we don’t burn people anymore, well the sane people don’t. I don’t
believe in any god because I follow the scientific method, and it brought so
many things. I know how the planets move, how the earth came to be. I can
calculate how big the earth is, even how fast a tree will fall. I don’t know
all, that is impossible but I have heard so much about science I can talk hours
and hours about it”

“That
sounds quite unorthodox." The tone of her
voice was half between a terror and an interest to know more. In the end the
terror seemed to win as she changed the subject. “Do you think you can go back to your Kingdom?” She started with
the subject growing more and more into a grim state of mind.

“I
don’t know.” Dion’s reaction was deep and depressed
“I don’t even know where or when I am.
Besides if I can go back I don’t even know how I can be human again.”
Rakshasi tried her best to brighten his mood a bit, after all it was her fault
for his down mood “Pray not to worry, we
will find a way.”

“Miss
Rakshasi” The voice of a young boy was audible from
the entrance to the chamber. Both Dion and Rakshasi looked around to see the
young boy. He would come just to Dion's hip, short black hair covered his head
and two pure blue eyes glared up at Dion. “The
Jarl has called for you.”