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This is a private role-play between Mobius The Winter King and KoiFishWarrior. Please refrain from posting, but feel free to read along!


    Setting:
        A fantasy world filled with magic. Humans (and other humanoid creatures) live in villages scattered throughout a dense forest. Dragons have been a nuisance for ages, and an ongoing war against the magnificent beasts has cost both sides many, many lives.

    Plot:
        The most powerful of dragons; their Eternal Leader; makes a deal with a wizard to give it a powerful artifact that will allow it to take human form to negotiate peace with the humans. However, she must make the journey in human form alone, to better see and understand the suffering both sides have not only endured, but caused as well. Our story begins with our main heroine, the Eternal Leader of the dragons, as she wanders on the very edge of the Empire's domain. Searching for the one who might guide her to Sovereign City, the seat of the Empire, and the only place where she can hope to put an end the slaughter....

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The blue skies turned black above the once quiet village of Roake, smoke and embers filling the air. There had been a dragon; it razed the town with it's flames and flew on by, but when the villagers tried to escape, he would return, pluck them from the ground and rip them apart with his strong claws and sharp fangs. What few villagers hadn't been claimed by the fires or the dragon itself gathered in the courtyard; the only place untouched by flame. They were scared; few of them were warriors (and those that dared to fight, had already perished). The dragon circled around once more, then landed on the roof of a burning building. It spread its wings, breathed deep and readied itself for the final blow... then simply stopped, looking down a path, littered with still-burning debris.

A stranger approached.

A black, billowing cloak and hood surrounded the stranger, making gender or age impossible to discern. In fact, the only discernible feature was a standard, and rather plain looking, sword strapped to his or her hip. "Fahvos dreh hi dreh daar, zeymah?" Why do you do this, brother? The voice was decidedly female, though gravelly and thick with the use of the dragon tongue.

"Duziir kiir!" Insolent Child! the dragon spoke, it's rumbling voice shaking the very foundation of the village. "Hi yin for zey zeymah? Wo los hi wah wahl grik piraan?" You dare call me brother? Who are you to make such claims?

The stranger threw back her hood, unleashing long, red hair that flowed behind her. Her ruby eyes fixated on the dragon and she pointed her sword to him. "Zu'uh los dovah, strin ko buld do jul." I am dragon, sealed in the form of man "Strunmah niirah voth dii for; reyth motaad ahst dii suleyk, ahrk ven qiilaan wah dii fen." Mountains echo with my name; trees tremble at my power, and the wind bows to my will. She raised her sword, "Ko for do dovah jud, Ireleth, zu'uh fusrot hi ahst ont!" In the name of the dragon queen, Ireleth, I demand you stop at once!

"Naak dii yolos, mey!" the dragon roared. Eat my flame, fool!" He reared up to blow fire, and the girl jumped through the burning debris, knocking his chin upward with the hilt of her sword, and directing the flames skyward. The dragon swiped a mighty claw at her, but she stood fast, letting him impale the appendage on her sword. The dragon roared, and took flight. The resulting winds blew her cloak open, revealing a rather strange outfit for the time period- her legs were exposed, her skirt much too short and her blouse too form fitting. More than anything, the oddity continued with an amulet around her neck, that shined in the flames with a strange hunger. The dragon landed immediately.

"Nii los vahzah... hi los... dii jud..."

It is true... you are my queen..."

Ireleth scoffed, sheathing her sword. "Lif dii koraav, vax." Leave my sight, traitor." The dragon unfurled his wings and flew off. Ireleth, still positioned on the roof of the burning building, stepped forward to address the stunned citizens. "Jul-" she cleared her throat, "Humans, fear not. I am Ireleth, fiercest champion among the dov- the dragons... and their queens. I've come to negotiate peace among our-" just then, the roof gave in, crumbling under her weight. She shrieked as she plummeted down, landing on her butt in a pile of rubble, "....kind..." she finished, rubbing her head.

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The trees rushed by in the darkness, the roars of what was undoubtedly a dragon had echoed across the valley and it inspired terror. For him, not because it was a dragon, but instead fear for his home, the village of Roake. The home that had taken him in after his parents were slain by the beasts. The last time he'd encountered one of their kind the sense of powerlessness was overwhelming and he was only a young boy then, however, that was no longer the case. His mother and father might have lost to them, but their son had sworn an oath to himself that he would not see the same fate as they had. In fact, the man who had taken him in after that event was one of the fabled "Manus Huntsmen" by descent and had had stayed true to their teachings and practices. Under this man's tutelage the young lad's fear of dragons faded with time and was replaced with not only the confidence to fight, but to kill, any dragon he came across.

The Order of Manus wasn't a group of dragon slayers, as the young boy and many others thought them to be. The reality of their order was that they were merely hunters of the highest caliber. They trained relentlessly to learn the techniques and skills necessary to hunt the most dangerous beasts one could possibly imagine. Naturally, a dragon was the top of the list for most dangerous. A thousand years ago, the Dragon Wars kicked off after they took control of the region farthest north in the Empire's lands, which resided at the foot of the mountains that were well known to belong to the dragons and a place that humans never set foot upon in respect to the powerful beasts. However, in the lore of humans, it was the dragons who descended from their mountain and launched an assault upon the Empire. When it came time to go to battle against these undeniably powerful foes, the Empire called upon the Order of Manus to lead their troops in battle.

The Order refused to aid them at first, clearly stating that they were no soldiers and weren't fit to lead soldiers in an organized battle. The Empire replied by showing them evidence to prove the rumors of dragon attacks hadn't been hearsay made up by travelers. Upon deliberation amongst themselves The Order agreed to only supply veteran huntsmen to bolster the strength of the Empires' forces. When these huntsmen took to the field, many of them fell alongside the soldiers they worked with and they learned more and more about them, until the day came that Dragon's Bow arte came into existence. Once the huntsmen stepped upon the field of the hunt with this new art, the dragon legions began to fall on the battlefield by the dozens. This slaughter of them continued on for one-hundred-and-fifty years. Until the dragons started targeting these huntsmen specifically and then wiped out their secluded home, known in in ancient texts as "Hand's Rest". It was merely a place for those huntsmen who owned no home, but were certified by the Order to have the skills necessary to become one of them. After the razing of Hand's Rest, the order's highest leader chose to disband their group and told all the huntsmen to prioritize their own lives and the needs of their families.

Regardless, many were out for blood now. The survivors of the razing were especially eager to make their the dragons pay and they then banded together in groups of two or three. These teams were called "Stalks", as in a coordinated attack tactic often employed by the huntsmen to kill more agile or tricky prey, and these teams went on the prowl for dragons. Often, in the cruelest way that was available. Many battlefield reports tell of seeing a dragon's wings suddenly ripped off and they plummeted to the ground where they were overrun by soldiers while they were either too injured from the fall to continue fighting or they were killed by huntsmen before they could recover from the stunning effect of the fall. Because of these battles, the dragon's territory has been pushed back to the foot of their mountains, where the first piece of territory they had taken was, and have been kept at bay since then. There hadn't been a coordinated large-scale attack from the dragons in over two-hundred years, but that didn't stop individual dragons from attacking isolated villages or cities if they felt bold enough.

Now, it seemed that one such dragon had decided to toy with his home and the young huntsmen wouldn't stand for this. Ried bursted through the treeline and stopped in a clearing he knew to overlook Roake what he saw shocked him. Buildings ablaze and the dragon standing atop one such building, but it seemed to be doing something strange. While he was too far away to notice the girl attacking the dragon, he did notice the dragon's jaw snap upward and the flames spewed into the skies and then the dragon took flight for a moment and then landed. "A chance..." Reid said, as he could feel the magic swirling about his body and then gathering upon his left hand. "Eis, ven, neith, ars, malnein yur ou tein..." He'd spent his whole life in training as a huntsmen for this moment, the instant where a dragon would be felled by his hand. The desire for vengeance he had held onto since he was a young boy could be sated this very night, when he'd only been late from returning from a simple hunt for food.

Raising his hand, the power surged in his left and a new power formed in his right. While invisible to the human eye, this was so potent that one could easily see the very air around it being displaced by the sheer density of the magics that occupied that spot. This arte was the culmination of all the efforts put forth by the huntsmen who died in the beginning of this war and although it was powerful, it couldn't be used as frequently as one might hope. Once per day, only one shot, that has the possibility to kill a dragon in one shot or at the very least it would be a fatal injury and the beast would be crippled with not much time left to live. The dragon then took off into the skies, attempting to flee for some reason. Regardless, Reid didn't care, as the time for his vengeance was nigh. The beast was flapping it's wings rapidly to gain altitude, however, it suddenly stopped, having sensed the powerful magic that emanated from the hills and in that moment of hesitation; death. Reid loosed the arrow which left the bow with a deep toned and resounding thump. It was as though something had slammed the earth off in the distance and the sound echoed across the still night. The arrow, hungry for dragon blood, sliced through the very air as it made it's way toward the target and then took a great big bite out of the dragon's rib cage and then greedily burrowed through it's side, consuming the dragon's heart, afterward the magic merely dissipated as though it hadn't been present.

To the viewer's of the scene, along with the sound of the arrow being loosed, the impact on the dragon's body caused it to drastically deviate from it's path and roll sideways in the air while it plummeted to the ground and the sound of it's impact on the earth was almost as loud as Reid's Dragon's Bow arte had been. The hunter, now a full fledged huntsmen by killing his first high ranked beast, felt strangely dissatisfied with this kill, but equally awe inspired by fact that he'd actually managed to kill the dragon in one shot. Reid understood what his mentor had meant now, why he said to never use the arts unless your target is in front of you. That arrow... he fould feel it's hunger and that hunger had been directed at the dragon. Which now laid in the middle of the valley, as silent as the grave.

He'd have to go and collect his mark from it later, for now, the man sprinted toward the village which still burned bright in the night. He didn't have the time to revel in his kill, or even to make a proper offering prayer as per their tradition, because there were still lives at stake. Or so he believed, as long as those buildings burned they could catch other structures on fire as well. In short order he arrived at the village, but found no survivors where he was, having entered from the far side of the village from the courtyard, and began to search the buildings he could get to for survivors.

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Ireleth sensed the powerful magic before she saw its devastating effects. While sensing it brought anger- why, why was someone attacking two non-combatants?- it also brought something more powerful, and deeply hidden. Fear. "Dovah kriid lu," she muttered, drawing her sword. She saw a section of the dragon blasted away, deep into its heart. It fell above the plains, dead. Dragon slayer magic. Ireleth bowed her head, while the citizens cheered. "Aal borii laas drun hi povaas. Hi grah pruzah, zeymah." May the next life bring you bounty; you fought well, brother. She touched her heart, and raised her head, eyes filled with anger.

The citizen's flinched, muttering amongst themselves. Is she a witch? She says she's one of them... did she just want to kill us herself? Ireleth scowled. She'd deal with those accusations (and find what she'd come her to find) later. This peace mission is going to be a pain in my arse, she thought, taking off with a growl. She ran towards the direction of which the magic came from, in hopes of finding the culprit and...

...Ireleth slowed. Killing a magic user for killing one of their kind for burning one of their homes wouldn't earn her any kind of trust. But then, there was anyone around... but it went against the mission she'd come to accomplish. She roared in frustration and kicked a burning building, knocking loose a support, and causing the entire thing to collapse. "...dammit..." She slammed the sword into it's sheath, beginning to attempt to walk off her frustrations. Unfortunately, it didn't take her but a few moments to approach a stranger. "The uh... the others are in the uh... place." she said, pointing towards the courtyard, but not knowing the proper name.

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The damage was worse than he'd anticipated that it would be, regret began to sink in as he blamed himself for picking this day of all days to go out to his farthest hunting grounds because there was a higher guarantee of getting a good amount of food there. He noticed a girl slowing to a stop, standing next to a building that he'd been just on the other side of when it gave out under it's own weight. The short girl mumbled to him about people being alive in this place. Looking back in the direction that she had come from, Reid could see that the villagers who had survived the attack were tending to the wounded in the courtyard of the Mayor's manor. What didn't add up though, was why she was out here when all the other buildings he'd checked had no survivors.

"You're a foreigner eh? Picked a bad day to show up here, with that dragon and all." He said, while walking a little past her toward the survivors. "You shouldn't be out after dark you know, all the predators would eat a little girl like you. I'd bet your parents are worried about you right now, ya know? You don't have to help with the injured, but come with me to the others. I can at least give you some shelter for the night. We can see if your parent's are there too." Gently grabbing the little girl by the wrist, he started leading her back to the others. He'd feel bad if he just let someone so young just walk off into the night, as it appeared she was planning on doing. The huntsmen really didn't even give her the chance to protest, since he'd hear none of it to begin with. Reid's mind was made up and, when he decided on something, the man could easily be more stubborn than an ox when somebody is trying to force it to walk when it doesn't want to.

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Ireleth nodded when he called her a foreigner. "Something like that, at least," she muttered, though she doubted he heard. He continued to speak, and suddenly, a man she was indifferent to, turned into a very annoying, condescending a**. His words hit her like spears; little girl; parents must be worried; the offer to help find her parents. She dug her heels in, at the same time as yanking her hand away, which led to her landing on her butt again.

Ireleth stood and spent a good moment or two in silence, dusting herself off, before she turned her focus to the man. She put both hands on her hips and leaned into it as she yelled, "Listen here, bucko! I am not a little girl! I am the fiercest champion of all the dragons! My parents are long gone, now; you couldn't help me find them if you wanted to, and I do not need your help!" She huffed a little after she was done, then straightened, crossed her hands over her chest and looked to the side. "Now apologize for patronizing a queen."

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THe small girl dug her heels into the charred earth and managed to pull herself free from his grip, which caused her to flop upon her rear and expose herself to him. As he'd seen her start to fall, the huntsmen had looked away to avoid embarrassing the young lady's pride, but it had seemed that he'd already unwittingly bruised it. His amethyst eyes looked her over calmly, as if assessing the girl's stance. "You know... you're rather cute when you pout. I can't really take you seriously like that." He responded with a smirk, choosing to provoke her instead of play nice. "I'd say you'll have any number of suitors vying for your eye in about five or six years." Of course he'd realized that she wasn't as young as she appeared, but just the way she was conducting herself was akin to that of a child throwing a tantrum.

What had really made him smile was when she'd demanded that he 'apologize to a queen' and that was what clued him in. In his mind, she wasn't as young as he'd thought initially, having placed her around twelve or thirteen years or so, but it seemed like she might be in mid to late teens now. Regardless, she was still a child to Reid, despite how young he looked as well. Despite being in his mid twenties, he was often subject to jeers about his youthful appearance. "So if your parents aren't here, then why are you, little lady?" He said, continuing to patronize her as he asked a somewhat serious question. "You did show up on the day that a dragon attacked, I'm fairly sure the other villagers don't think that is a coincidence. Is that why you were running away from them?"

Regardless, Reid also knew that he shouldn't be playing around with her like this when there were people who might need more treatment than a bandage or splinting a broken bone. While he was one of the hunters for the town, he was also one of the town's two herbalists and that was another reason why he'd gone out to his hunting grounds that were so far away. He'd been low on a specific herb, one that people frequently needed and he'd gone there to gather it in bulk He switched the bag onto his other shoulder and then started at a jog toward the courtyard "We can talk about this later, I need to do my part too." Reid said, as he passed her quickly and leaving her with no time to either retort to his earlier comments or answer his questions. "Come find me later, just ask around for Reid and they'll point you in the right direction!" With that, he put on a burst of speed and crossed the whole width of the town after about a minute or two and arrived at his destination. The huntsmen immediately got to work making salves for both burns and infections.

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Ireleth skulked around the burning village some more, now even angrier after the stranger's snide comments. She wanted to kick his teeth in. She wanted to throw him into the flames. She wanted to...

Ireleth took a deep breath, closed her eyes and rubbed her temples and tried to remember why she was here. Images of war and death passed through her mind, the murder of her father, watching her brothers fall to an inferior race. She didn't like the humans; that much was painstakingly clear, but she absolutely hated the war and the bloodshed. It had to stop somehow, and if Ireleth could talk some sense into their leaders, well... her people could have peace while she watched from the mountaintops.

By the time she returned to the human's camp, they'd moved it outside of the town, in the woods, and Ireleth found herself terribly lost for another hour. She entered the camp and immediately received all sorts of glares from the humans, which was troublesome. As much as she hated it, she couldn't make it to the capital alone; she needed help. She approached the first person she came to and said she needed a guide to the capital. The man laughed in her face. "No one wants to help you, witch. Go back from wence you came."

"Um... my pa told me not to talk to you..."

"No one in his right mind would help you."

"Go away! You've burdened us enough, witch!"

"Begone, dragon-whisperer!"

"You've brought this hell upon us, stranger; no one will help you! You will rot for your crimes!"

By the time she'd made it to the center of camp, she was fuming. Perhaps they wanted her to kill all of them, because the way they were treating a messenger of peace... a queen no less, they all deserved to rot in this hellish, war-ridden war. Didn't they see that she was trying to help? Finally one girl, a shy looking little girl came up to her and tugged on her cloak. Ireleth looked down; she was just a child. She looked actually a little cute, despite her race.

"Big Brother leaves a lot. Mommy says he never gets lost because he knows the way. Maybe Big Brother can help you?" she pointed in the direction of where she'd last seen this 'Big Brother' of hers. "He's with Big Sister over there, helping the hurt people. Big Brother Reid doesn't usually go very far, and the capital is very far, but maybe Big Brother will help you, dragon lady." With that, the child wandered off to find... whatever it was small children cared about, and left Ireleth with nothing more to do than follow the child's direction to the infirmary.

She found Reid, and approached him, though she refused to make eye contact. "I..." she decided last minute to change her approach. The others weren't very receptive of her demands to be taken to the capital, so perhaps if she asked nicely...? "I need your help," she said, though it was a huge blow to her pride. She continued to look away from him. "Someone told me... someone told me you might be able to..." with a sigh, she looked him dead in the eye. "I need to go to the capital, and I need you to help me get there."

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Thankfully, the damage wasn't as bad as he'd thought it would be. Sure, over half of the town was destroyed and most of it's population along with it, but the injuries of people pulled from burning houses got the worst of it all. Reid applied the various herbal medicines that he had to their wounds and could at least take solace in the fact that they would heal from it. The people would rebuild and they would move on with their lives, as they always had when disaster struck. The people of Roake were hardy folks, but the man looked to his home, which had been only a few meters distance from where they were presently, and sighed as he looked at the smoldering ruins. Just as he was starting to consider his future plans, a faintly familiar voice started talking to him.

It was considerably more subdued than before and she was actually polite with him. She'd said that she needed his help with something and that lone sentiment put him on guard. "See, you can do it if you try. Being nice will get you further in life than being rude, little missy." Reid said, turning to greet her with a genuine smile. "You're just in luck, basically everything I had went up in flames last night and now I was just thinking of what I was going to do next. Minus my hunting gear, so I guess that is a silver lining in all of this. Anyway, what do you need my help with? Did you get hurt or burned at all?" The huntsmen couldn't rightfully turn anybody away just so he could deal with his problems. Reid had always had the personal police of handling all problems one step at a time and dealing with what he'd lost was a bit more than he could handle at the moment.

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Ireleth scowled as the human told her how being nice will get her farther in life. She wanted to say something rude, but was really trying here; so she bit her tongue and listened to the rest of what he had to say. While she didn't quite understand how she was lucky that all of his personal belongings went up in flames, she was grateful that he seemed receptive to helping her.

"I just need an escort to this Kingdom's capital," she repeated, "Once you get me there, I can handle the rest." She paused; she'd left the majority of her stores of gold in her cavern (she was greedy, and didn't want to use most of it, so she'd brought only the best trinkets to give to the royal family). While internally debating what the best payment for such a task would be, she realized what would be the right thing to do. "If you do this for me, once my mission is complete, I will come back and give this village enough gold to restore the town twice over." There was a determined fire in her eyes, and she could only hope it would work.

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It appeared that sarcasm was lost on her, since she didn't even blink after he mentioned that his belongings had been torched. Not that it bothered him any, but he'd noticed that this girl seemed different than others her age would be, in a fundamental sense. "Mission? What mission might that be?" Reid asked, with a curious look upon his face. "I can't say many people your age would have a real 'mission' on their hands, so forgive me for being skeptical." She had his attention now, more so than before, and he'd have to carefully consider whatever offer she was trying to make at him. Then she dropped the line about coming back with enough gold to rebuild this small village two times over.

His eyes narrowed at her right after she said that, almost in a threatening manner. If there was any place that he would draw the line at, it was when people started talking about very large sums of money. The man motioned for her to follow him as he walked away from the area where others were very readily listening in on the conversation. Something was going on here that Reid didn't know about and he intended to dig for the information. Even if he had to turn his sword on a young girl to get it.

After moving a safe distance from the other survivors, he turned back around to face her. "You're talking about big money, saying things like that, and if you've got a reason for saying that where others can hear, then I'd like you to explain the details." The huntsmen said, his left hand resting just below the crossguard of his sword with a loose grip on the sheath. "Can't say I know what you're planning, but I won't have this place endangered by whatever it is you intend to do. I'd suggest you be forthcoming about what exactly you're hiring me for and what you're overall goal is. Because if I bring you to the capital and you get into some kind of trouble, they'll be coming after me too. Possibly this village too, if I manage to evade the Royal Guard."

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Ireleth was about to explain in-depth about her mission, before he mentioned her age again. "Would you stop treating me like a child?! I'm grown, damn you!" she said, loudly. She noticed the quick change in his demeanor the moment she mentioned her reward, and followed him off into the woods, noticing how his hand rested on his weapon. He seemed to be extremely suspicious of her now, but she only sighed in response, getting ready to handle things the only way she knew how; straightforward and truthfully.

"It's like I told the others; my name is Ireleth, and I am Queen of the Dragons," she stated, simply. "Well, 'queen' is kind of a title I stole from your language; it sounds so much classier than Champion, as my people would call it," she said, kind of missing the point that declaring herself an enemy to the human race in front of a human might be a bad idea. "I took human form to bring peace to the war. My mission is to find a way to end centuries upon centuries of senseless fighting."

She paused. "What I'm doing... the dragons shouldn't harm people while I am here in this form. That dragon... he was one of Alistair's. Alistair is a bit of a thorn in my side. He hates humans to the degree that he would have us all wiped out just to take a few humans with us." She ran a hand through her hair, then looked to him. "I don't think what we're doing should cause you or your people any harm, but your currency is of no use to me." She said that so cooly, but honestly, it hurt her to think of releasing the pretty stacks of coin she'd collected over the years. It wasn't useful at all, but it was some of her cave's only decor.

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After very carefully listening to her speak, his jaw went slack and his left hand completely let go of the weapon's sheath. There was no getting around it, he was literally struck speechless by what this girl had just managed to spout at him. With a straight face nonetheless! "You... don't seriously expect me to believe what you just said, do you? If your intent was to silence me for a moment, I should think you've done a grand job of that." Reid said, a smirk appearing on his face as he looked the little girl over. "Even if you may be an adult, which is unlikely by your appearance, I can see why the others were so leery of you now. You actually had the gall to say that you're in control of the whole dragon species in the midst of one razing our homes to the ground? You're not just daft, but touched in the head too, I think."

He then walked around her, as if inspecting the girl's body. He couldn't see any obvious signs of injury, old or new. Was she just born like this? Or was this part of some machination of hers? There was no way somebody who was human could hope to be any kind of leader amongst those beasts. At best, she was just delusional. "I'll give you the benefit of doubt for now, but how could you expect somebody to just take that at face value?" The man said, still trying to figure out what her angle was. "Trying to tell people that you're a dragon is bound to get you locked up, when you get to a real city. Either that, or they'll just plain throw you out the front gates." Reid was utterly lost here and still trying to figure out what exactly was going on and why she would say such an outlandish speech like that. It was truly baffling.

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"Of course I do, it's the truth," Ireleth said, in response to him asking if she honestly expected him to believe that. She was put off by such a rude and ignorant question. At least, it sounded that way to her. She frowned again when he made her sound like she'd been rude (or did that mean arrogant? It was a rough translation. Either way, it upset her). "Hey, don't pin that on me! I told them that attacking humans would endanger my mission, and that they wouldn't have to carry on with this ridiculous fued by the time I'm done. Besides, I told him to stop and punched him in the damn face right in front of everyone, isn't that enough for you people?"

Ireleth's scowl deepened with every word Reid uttered. "Because it's true! WHat do you want me to do, breathe fire at you to prove myself?" she yelled, frustrated. "And they wouldn't dare lock me up; I can keep the peace while I travel to the capital, but if they catch wind that their leader is imprisoned, I can't stop them from whatever they might do."

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Clearly, there was something amiss here. Either that or he just couldn't wrap his mind around what this girl was saying to him. It was abundantly clear that she hadn't the foggiest idea of what she was implying. Honestly, he wanted to slap some sense into this girl. Reid saw no such thing occur, and even if it had, there are many creatures that could jump into the air and hit a dragon in the face. Not many would actually survive the encounter, first and foremost, but none of them would do any actual damage either. "Even if you breathed fire, that couldn't convince me that you're a dragon. Plenty of other creatures can do that too and there are even magic artifacts that let people do the same thing." Reid said, reigning in his temper and speaking to her normally. "Don't even bother telling me that you can speak dragon either, it's nothing new to me for humans to try and imitate it. There are Warmages at the Capital can understand dragon tongue and some can even speak it."

He may be living out in the boonies, but he'd gone to the Capital a number of times in the past and had spoken with some of the Warmages that were on duty at the time. He just happened to overhear two of them talking about that particular subject. He didn't have any way to prove it was true, but that didn't stop him from saying it in the face of this girl's utter nonsense. The man believed that he had every right to be skeptical of what she was telling him, after all, what kind of dragon would turn themselves into a human, of all things? That would have to be some kind of huge disgrace to them or some kind of punishment.

"Enough of that, what are you intending to do at the Capital anyway? You said that you want to negotiate for peace. Do you not realize that the only way to do that would be to negotiate with the King and Queen?" Reid asked, having had enough of her charades. "Even if say that you're 'the Queen of Dragons' they're not going to give you an audience with the King and Queen. Like I said before, they're to ignore you at best and they might just execute you for heresy at the worst." The huntsmen's mind was on a different track now, he was seriously considering how somebody could grow up to be as old as she appeared and not realize the madness that infested nearly every statement and claim she has made to him so far? The girl very clearly looked human. Sounded human, walked like a human, and even shouted like one. To claim that they're a dragon of all things, is something one would only see from children and possibly from those who've lost their sanity.

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