ride on the back of a dragon

"Why?" Hill looked at Finny in puzzlement, the funny and cute phoenix who had accompanied him for decades, was also a teacher and friend.Why was it bought by Celine?What did Celine use to threaten it, to seduce it?Hill couldn't figure out why a phoenix with no relatives and no reason would choose to betray him?

"You, you're awake..." Finny avoided his eyes in panic. Obviously, they underestimated the power of an adult dragon, and the effect of the medicine had already eased.

"Phinney, so...you were the one last time, right? It's always been you." Hill recalled the same sudden madness in Fleur in Olive Town, followed by pursuers.Including outside Dawn City, even though he was asleep at that time, after waking up, Carat told him everything.

"During Dawn City, you also exposed Fleur like this, right?" He glanced at the unknown powder sprinkled on the jerky.

Feeney didn't explain or deny, Hill stared at the frustrated phoenix: "If there are no accidents, this should have started two years ago, right? Two years ago, you led me to find the dragon egg and hatch it." When the fire dragon came out, you tried your best to inform you along the way, and you almost killed Carat."

In fact, Hill is looking forward to it explaining. It should ask itself angrily why it doubts it so much. Aren't they the closest friends?

But Finny didn't say anything, just looked at him sadly and ashamedly, and even the shiny feathers around him seemed to dim: "I'm sorry. I don't think about Carat's matter. It's not his business...but He was foolishly trying to stop Duke Mehta from getting involved..."

"I just want to know why." Hill couldn't even get mad at it.Before Carat came along, Finny was the most important, only friend, family in his life.

"Hill, I can't help it."

"What did she threaten you with?" Hill looked at Feeney, hoping to get some clues from his tangled expression: "Or what did she promise you? What do you want?" He found that he only knew about Feeney. Limited to smug beauty, long-winded and lustful, and full of desire to perform.He has always believed what Finny said.

"She didn't threaten me or force me. I can't refuse her. I can't refuse Celine." After finishing speaking, Finny breathed a long sigh of relief.Its expression is no longer entangled: "I know you can't accept it, a friend who has been with you since you are sensible has betrayed you. But I have been with her... for how many years, I can't even remember. I I was born, grew up, died, and reborn by her side. Watching her relatives leave her one by one, she only has me, and I can't leave her anymore."

"So from the very beginning, you approached me on purpose, right? Oh, what did you say when you went out to make a girlfriend... When you disappeared, you returned to her, right?" Hill laughed dumbfounded: "You want What does the dragon do?"

"..." Feeney was silent for a long time: "Hill, do you hate humans?"

Hill's rejection of humans is innate.Thanks to Finny, he seems to have learned early on that this species is weak but terrifying.So he is afraid of being hurt, betrayed, and used by humans, and has been reluctant to really get close to them.Even if you are in a crowd, you dare not slack off in the slightest, let alone open your heart to anyone.If he hadn't met Carat by accident, he might still be like this today.

But he doesn't hate humans.He can even fall in love with a human.

"Do you hate them, do you want them to be destroyed? Do you want greedy humans to be punished. Do you want someone to give justice to the other races that have been deprived of everything by humans?" Finny asked him calmly.

"What about you?" Hill asked.

"I don't know if I hate them or not, but Celine hates them. No matter what she wants to do, I can only accompany her." Phoenix was very calm.

The fire on the island was gradually extinguished, and Kela sat alone in the cave, pulling out the arrowhead that had penetrated her calf, and blood flowed down her ankle.He dug out the wound medicine and bandages Karma had left her from the sheepskin bag, and wrapped them tightly around the wound.

It never occurred to him that it was Finny who had betrayed them.Isn't it Hill's best friend?

There was Fleur's half-eaten air-dried meat on the ground. Carat picked up the piece of beef that was covered in strange powder and smelled it carefully. There was a mixture of strange and weird smells, including the sweetness of blood root hibiscus and the pungent smell of ephedra. This is most likely the reason for Fleur's sudden madness.While they were leaving, Finny drugged Fleur.

The first time Fleur was caught outside of Dawn was when she was alone with Finny.The second time they were inexplicably overtaken by the pursuers, and Fleur just happened to go crazy at that time, and she was also taken by Finny alone the night before.Plus this time... so the one who has been revealing their whereabouts is the phoenix by their side, a friend they never suspected.

Carat walked out of the cave in a daze, the vast sea, how would he leave?How was he going to save Hill and Fleur?

He dragged his leg in severe pain, walked to the wounded and unconscious soldiers, and helped them treat their wounds, but no one thanked him, and the wounded soldiers only had panic and despair in their eyes.Carat guessed that they must be resenting themselves in their hearts. If it weren't for the broom star in front of them, they wouldn't be trapped in such a place waiting to die.He seems to have always been an unlikable person.

Carat didn't want to die either.I don't even want to die alone at sea like this.

Time passed very slowly. He sat on the reef and watched the seriously injured person around him gradually lose consciousness. He could change the dressing for him, but he couldn't stop his hunger and dehydration.Carat hid in the hole stiffly, he was suddenly timid, not daring to face the passing of a life.As he was dying, the man had hallucinations and muttered words, as if he was praying, with a gratified smile on his face.After suffering for an unknown amount of time, Carat heard him making a terrifying wheezing sound, as if he was about to suffocate in the next second.Reason told him that it is time to go to that person's side and give the dying person a final care, but his limbs were cold, his legs and feet couldn't move at all, and he couldn't move half a bit, and he didn't even dare to look at the person turning blue A glance at his skin seemed to be the announcement of his own death. Soon, he would be exactly the same, with earthy eyes, sunken mouth and twitching, silently stopped breathing, and died on the island where Hill was born.

Will Hill come back to see it?Will he be recognized among these rotting corpses when he returns?Will he remain in Hill's memory forever in such an unsightly appearance?Obviously not long ago, he wanted to use the limited life of human beings to plant freesias all over the world.That should be their memory.

Carat carried the sheepskin backpack made by his father, and jumped into the sea in a daze.He didn't know which direction to swim the coast of Margarets, but he didn't want to stay there any longer.He didn't want to watch those people die one by one, leaving him waiting to die hopelessly, so no matter where it was, he had to give it a try.He remembered the direction the ship was going, and he swam there until he was exhausted.

Clara lay on the surface of the sea thinking that if Hill was there, they could get anywhere they wanted in the blink of an eye.The sea water in winter is very cold, Carat's senses are gradually numb, and he is a little sleepy.His calf, which was still in pain, didn't feel anything. He silently closed his eyes and drifted with the flow.

He remembered the last words he said before his mother disappeared when he was a child was good night, he remembered the hug when he said goodbye to his father in a hurry, and thought of the boring life in the first moon city day after day.He couldn't help feeling a little bit nostalgic, nostalgic for the dullness that he cast aside, he never knew that living was so difficult.

Carat was almost unconscious when he was picked up, and he seemed to hear someone calling his name.

"Don't sleep! Carat!! It's me!"

It was a girl's voice.A palm slapped his face hard, and Carat woke up for a moment, opened her eyes wide and found herself lying on a fishing boat, and Kama called him anxiously: "Carat!"

He was covered with a blanket, lying on Kama's lap, the starry sky above him shaking.Carat has never seen such a dazzling Milky Way, a bright white silk and satin winding above the sky, dense stars like twinkling gems.

"Where are we?" Carla asked weakly.

"We're going to Eaton Island soon."

The captain of the boat was sitting on the bow wearing a hood, surrounded by sea fog, and the boat sailed automatically in the calm sea.Clara sat up shivering and regained consciousness completely: "How did you find me?" He found that the backpack was missing: "Mine, where is the backpack?" He asked Karma.

Karma shook her head: "I didn't see it." She handed him a bracelet: "You held this tightly when you found you."

Carat breathed a sigh of relief and put the bracelet back on her wrist.Nothing else matters anymore.

"I saw Ton's family's boat going out to sea." Kama frowned: "I also saw Celine boarding the boat. A few days later they came back with a cage, and I guessed that it must be Fleur." The girl from He took out an apple from his backpack and handed it to Carat: "When I saw that phoenix, I knew something must have happened to you and Hill, but I don't know where you are, so I went to the north pier to find it. Erwin." Kama looked at the man in charge of the boat: "He is the only guide to Eaton Island, as I said."

"And Hill..." Carat wiped the surface of the apple with her fingers: "They also caught Hill." He didn't panic, and fled all the way here. Carat was almost sure that as long as the fire dragon was still alive, he would die forever. There is no escape from such an accident.

"After the coming-of-age ceremony, Tai Lun put Duke Ton's family under house arrest." Kama said: "Celine has been in contact with Ton's family in private these years. Tai Lun tried his best to avoid this, but since Frey appeared and they Sometimes I even feel that Celine is deliberately deepening the conflict, but Tai Lun never believes me, she thinks that Celine and I are of the same mind..."

The sea fog gradually dispersed, and a large-scale island appeared in front of Carat's eyes.

From a distance, the whole island is covered with lush vegetation, it doesn't look like winter at all.

The moment he stepped on the beach, Carat suddenly felt warm and comfortable all over his body, and a strange force enveloped him.The cold, tiredness, and depression were all dispelled by this force.He lowered his head, looked at the unremarkable beach under his feet, and then turned his head to look at Karma, who was as surprised as he was.

They turned their heads at the same time and found that the guide named Erwin had disappeared together with his fishing boat.

"We've arrived..." Kama sighed, "This must be Eden Island."

Kela felt that his body was full of strength, and the soreness and numbness of his muscles disappeared. He couldn't wait to run to the center of the island, and he felt that something was calling him.

"Be careful where you step, don't run around."

Carat passed a tree and was suddenly stopped by a strange voice. The voice was very thin, like a seven or eight-year-old girl.He looked around, the moonlight was quiet, and there was no one in the quiet woods.

"Did you hear that?" he asked Karma.

"I heard it." Kama raised her head and stared at the graceful branches: "The sound seems to come from above."

Kela touched the smooth bark with his hands. It felt like lemon eucalyptus, but the leaves were much sparser. The shape of the branches was very beautiful, like an open mushroom umbrella.

"Don't step on my sister." This time, Kela heard clearly that the voice came from inside the tree. He watched the tree stand up suddenly, and the forked roots were pulled out from the soil, like two feet.The lemon eucalyptus crouched beside Clara.

Honeymoon:

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