Chapter Six: Puru, Last of Her Kind
Kimi held the last dragon in her claws.
Ulet, Maxine, Juno and Sei had been looking through every bestiary for a mention of that dragon. The old ones, the new ones, the lying ones, the true ones. None of them had so much as a footnote describing a black, starry dragon with a half-and-half face. There were gold dragons, silver dragons, and starry dragons, but not one with two of them, and definitely not all three.
Kimi wasn’t helping them much. She couldn’t read the scripts used in any of them. It had become glaringly clear how little she knew of this continent. Rather, she fawned over the teensy dragon.
A shrine had been created of blankets and pillows in the young queen’s room for the little creature.
“Puru, little one, why are you so small?”
Puru yelped.
“You sound like a coyote!”
“Kimi?” Maxine called for Kimi’s attention.
“Yeah?”
“We can’t find anything about your new companion in the bestiaries.”
“That’s okay. If anything, it means I get to learn about Puru myself!”
“You named her Puru? It’s a very nice name, where’d you get it from?”
“Her bark!”
“Very cool! Ulet needs you back where you were before we got distracted.”
“Okay, thanks Maxine! Byeee!” She darted out the door, and the tiny dragon tailed her closely.
Kimi hurried through the forest. Soon, she found herself in the clearing where she was before.
“Hello again, Kimi. Same thing as before, you know how to do this.”
Kimi sat down and oriented herself the same way as she was before. Puru nestled in her hands politely.
She closed her eyes. The orb was still there, half-gold, half-silver. It was pretty.
“Now, Kimi, you must summon your anger, your rage, your fear, your sadness. Mould them into a roar.”
Kimi looked through her thoughts and found every awful feeling hiding, and she collected them. Her father’s face, full of anger, the mother she could never meet, filling her with grief, and moments that had not yet happened, like the fight against her father, full of fear for what the unknown future could hold. And she roared. Her anger, not directed at a single soul, cracked the night sky with thunderclouds. But it had been afternoon when she began.
She opened her eyes. Ulet stared at her, shocked.
“W-was that weather magic… and night magic!?”
“The thunder was definitely weather magic. I don’t know much about night magic, but considering it was afternoon and now it’s night, I’d assume so.”
Ulet looked at Kimi’s face. “I think I know how your half-human, half-monster thing works now, too.”
“What do you mean?”
“I’ll show you when we get home. Let's get out of the rain, kid.”
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