Dark Iron Incident

Cenelie clutched the bleeding part, panting in the small white room.

After struggling for a while, she realized that this was not a small room, but an ice cocoon tailor-made for her.When the cocoon melted away layer by layer, the ice threads would still be around her wounds, and within a quarter of an hour, all the wounds tended to heal, and even the energy wasted during the hysterical escape seemed to have returned a lot.

Looking at the scorched land, Cenelie was still dazed, not knowing what happened.

When she woke up, the only undoubted thought was—Dilmahas, her own mother, really almost killed herself.

Weeping intermittently, Charmander shook violently, and every time she moved the wound felt dull pain, but she knew that it was not because the wound was shallow, but because the wound was deep, and many places were really burnt to pieces , was bleeding out and other fluids that she didn't know and didn't dare to know what it was.

Cenelie turned her head in a daze, looked around in a panic and aimlessly, trying to find a safe hiding place with the last bit of strength, but her body couldn't move no matter what.

When she looked in the direction of the town, the screaming human beings standing on the edge were slowly blurring, turning into shadows, and finally disappeared without a trace, and beside a certain huge oak tree, there was a man wearing A tall man with a hood is looking at him with his arms folded.

Soon, the man turned back to the city without even saying hello.

Cenelie, who wanted to ask him for help, couldn't make any sound, and could only raise her head high while sobbing, not looking at what had happened to her body.After the other party disappeared completely, she began to despair, resting her head on the fire ash and her own coagulated blood clots, thinking of the only song that Huotango Nan taught herself, and sang in her mind.She thought about how the Fire Armored Demon taught her to dive quickly under the surface of the volcanic ash, and how the swarms of bats tossed her around so that she could learn to fly...

She thought of the black fire dragon who always looked down at her from a high position, and the other party would sometimes raise its huge claws and touch her neck, representing the father's blessing to his children.

She kept thinking of happy days so that the fear of death would not be so great as to overwhelm her all at once.

But suddenly, the man in the hooded cloak reappeared, reaching out and holding her little head tightly.At the moment when the feeling of comfort struck, Cenelie remembered that she had to announce her name to the same kind she met for the first time, but before she could speak, she fell asleep in a daze.

The man gently covered the horrible wound with his hand.

At first he thought that this little charmander would strongly repel his own ice, just like her father. Even if it wasn't to that extent, it would get some additional injuries while recovering like other fire monsters, but for some reason, she Absorbing his own treatment very well, within a quarter of an hour, all the fatal wounds were glued together, and the internal organs began to function normally, and then he only needed to recuperate quietly.

The man took off his cloak to wrap her around, and wanted to put it by the woods, but he seemed to hesitate after finding a suitable place, and he went back and forth a few times, but he stayed and continued to heal her.

In fact, during this process, Cenelie woke up a few times in a daze. Following the rhythm of the other person's walking and the treatment techniques, she was able to relax. The other party was undoubtedly her own kind. It's very good, but the smell on her body is very pleasing. All the guesses and doubts she has learned before seem to be inapplicable to this smell.

It's just that this person has adjusted his body temperature a little... low?

I don't know how long I slept, and I don't know where I was. When Kenelie woke up, she saw the man who saved her sitting on the tree stump, looking at the few trees in front of her, and the wounds on her body were miraculously healed. up.

When he was about to sit up, he made some noises, and the man looked over.The person who hadn't seen clearly before had a pair of beautiful blue eyes like topaz. The hood covered most of his face, but the hair falling from both sides of his cheeks could be seen to be silver.The two of them didn't say anything, maybe because the atmosphere was a little stiff, the man turned his head away again.

Charmander tried to talk to him: "You...you saved me? Thank you...thank you, sir..."

After getting no answer, Cenelie continued to work hard, even if the other party couldn't understand the ancient language, she still had to thank her.

"When I go back, I...I will tell my father, he will...he will come to thank you in person..."

"Need not."

Huh?can understand?

"But, my father said..."

"I don't know what your father said, and I don't care."

"...Uh...uh——" the child who remembered the etiquette said quickly, "Father, my lord is...Krigan, the eldest son of Lord Hetalos, Krigan, my name is Cenelieu."

"If I remember correctly, Clegane's territory is Cling Volcano."

"Yes, yes! You know him?"

"Going southwest from here is Aper City, which is your father's territory. You can go." The man casually pointed to the direction without turning his head.

"...but...but..." Kenelie hesitated.

"If you go on, aren't you afraid that it will be my turn to kill you?"

"... But if you... want to kill me, you won't save me..."

"I save people just for fun, and if I kill people, it's also for fun."

"I... I'm not used to walking at night, can I... can I go tomorrow?" Looking at the dark rocks, Cenelie asked aggrievedly.

The hooded man was silent for a moment.

"I sleep very quietly, I won't disturb you, and I wake up early..."

"And you're so sure I'll stay here forever."

"Hey..." It looks like it will...

A few minutes later, a leather bag was thrown over.

"...what is this, sir?"

"Goat's milk." Fang said seriously, "You don't like milk, do you?"

"...No...um...this...is for me to drink?"

"Don't you drink? Are you weaned?"

"..." Cenelie thought about how to answer so as not to hurt this person's feelings, "Well, sir, I'm an egg layer, and I don't drink milk. And I'm 55 years old."

"……what do you?"

"I am...Dansheng..."

The hood moved, as if the man's gaze drifted away for a while.

"Hmm... I know that many ancient dragons were viviparous in the past, and my father was also viviparous, but, um, it seems that the dragon children like me are all born from eggs..." Kenelie tried to lick it Leather bag, "But the taste is not bad, thank you, sir."

The man didn't speak anymore. He felt that if his teacher saw this scene by his side, he would definitely say sarcastically, "Aren't you ashamed to be suppressed by a child's IQ?"

shame.

Cenelie did indeed sleep peacefully, but because of her vigilance, she woke up twice in the middle of the night, the first time she quickly fell asleep again, and the second time it was not so easy to fall asleep, she got up and took a peek and stayed awake, staring at the top of her head The man above.She crawled to his feet, who did not push her away.

"Do you like stars, sir?"

"..."

"I like stars very much, but no one around me can tell me their stories. I only know that they have various names. What is it... Asclepius?... What Gany Mo...s?"

"Ganymedes."

"Uh, um, eh? Ganymede... des? Well, Ganymedes."

"There. That's it."

Cenelie looked up, and it didn't take much effort to see the constellation of stars pointed by her slender fingers.

"Wow... is that Ganymede? Is he still pouring wine?"

"Until the end of the world."

"Is he dead?"

"Those who become stars neither die nor live. They can be dead or live elsewhere. They are eternal."

"Who's next to me?"

"On the left is the faun, Pan, and on the right is Aphrodite and her child, Eros."

"Will everyone become stars?"

"You have to ask Zeus."

"I do not like him."

"I don't like him either."

"...Why are there no stars in some places?"

"There will be," the silver-haired man looked at several empty positions, "'When they all become stars and become a new order, our era will be over.'"

"What time is ours?"

"...if you live to that day, you'll know," said the speaker, suddenly realizing that he hadn't seen the night dome in ages, and the starlight was once his favorite thing, and he could stare at them for nights, Do nothing.

"This is what my mother told me before. She also said..."

"she says……?"

"—to sleep with you."

Kenelie smacked her lips, the other party's tone became cold again, she could only obey obediently.But she didn't run back to the small place just now, but fell asleep directly at the man's feet.

The man continued to look up at the long-lost starry sky. Many places have changed, and they are not exactly the same as in memory. Some places have some new light, and some places that should have been bright have become dead and dim. When his mother pointed it out to him for the first time, she said that it was brand new, and there were even a few corners that he couldn't even name.

When his mother asked him and his elder brother to lie on the grass and memorize the names of the stars, he always remembered very quickly, but the elder brother who did everything well was unexpectedly not good at it.

After finally getting the limelight, he volunteered to help the other party "make up lessons", but halfway through he found that the other party would only stare at him, and his mind was not on the stars.He would get up with a grunt, step on his elder brother's head, jump up and down, and shout in his mouth: "Why are you not paying attention! Why are you not paying attention!!" Only then did the elder brother memorize a little bit of the content.

Accidentally touched Cenelie, the deep scar on his right hand reappeared from the human skin, this time he didn't put effort to hide it, but let it stay like this, because he suddenly found that... his heart was no longer It will hurt.

In the morning, as expected, the well-behaved child bowed greatly and ran into the rocks. Her heart had already flown home at this moment, and she wished to bump into the fire detective who raised her head-on.

After confirming that the little guy's smell was far enough away, the hooded man turned into a white lakeside bird and followed at a certain distance.It seems that Laven and the others have indeed taught her a lot of skills. She has a good sense of direction. She knows how to hide when encountering other creatures, and she knows how to find food during the day. Although she can't fly very much, if there are tall trees, she can Can smoothly climb to the top to catch up on sleep.

Linhu Bird looked at the little charmander breathing steadily from the branch, and couldn't help laughing at himself, it's amazing, just like her father.

I can't live alone at her age, I can only look for... her father for everything.