ride on the back of a dragon

Fleur's condition was not good, the scales became hotter and hotter, struggling violently along the way, Carat could hardly control it.Fortunately, he avoided the crowd and brought it home safely.The back of his hand was bitten, and the smell of blood seemed to irritate this irascible little beast. Fleur writhed on the grass in pain, and Carla knelt beside it, helpless: "It's obviously not hurt... Where are you hurting?" ..."

He looked helplessly at Hill, who was still asleep.

"Sill..." Clara tugged at the corner of his clothes, but the other party took a long breath without any response, he gritted his teeth helplessly, grabbed Hill's collar and pulled him up directly: "Wake up! Hill! "

Hill was finally willing to open his eyes, and he gently patted Carat's hand away and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Carat didn't know how embarrassed his expression was: "Fleur, she is very strange." He pointed to the red lizard not far away.Following the direction of his fingers, Hill saw Fleur writhing and swaying on the grass, rubbing her back against the ground, and emitting a strange growl from her throat.Hill's pupils contracted violently, and his brows were knit together. Carat saw his pupils draw a line in a daze, dividing the yellow-green pupils into two longitudinally, like cat's eyes in sunlight.Carat blinked vigorously, and the illusion disappeared, and Hill's pupils were still ordinary black dots like her own, quietly staying in the middle of a new green.Watching him turn Fleur who was lying on her back with her back rubbing against the ground, Carla also leaned over, couldn't help gasping, pointed at the two symmetrical bumps on Fleur's shoulder blades, and couldn't control her voice Trembling: "This, what is this? What's wrong with it?"

Hill lightly stroked Fleur's back with his fingers: "What happened just now? Speak slowly." As soon as he opened his mouth, there was a gust of wind.Carat couldn't tell what the smell was like in the wind, but she felt refreshed, and her restless emotions seemed to be enveloped by the wind, and fell back to the bottom of her heart, and her messed up thoughts also unfurled.

Hill seemed to have easily relieved Fleur's pain. The poor little girl who was in agony no longer struggled, and quietly closed her eyes and fell asleep in Hill's arms.Carat told Hill exactly what happened just now.

"I was buying meat at the butcher shop, and I didn't know what happened outside. It was probably because the children threw pebbles at the fluff, which annoyed it. They often bullied small animals like this. Cats, dogs, lambs and so on." Carat thought in his mind. Recalling every detail in detail, hoping to find some clues: "They also said that Fleur...can breathe fire..." This sounds absurd, but the connection of everything in front of him made Carat question, those children The front foot is still throwing pebbles, why is the back foot playing with fire?Besides, there were no traces of burning other than the child's ponytail. Carat's sense of smell has always been keen, and she didn't smell any kerosene at the time: "How could Fleur breathe fire, right? No animal can breathe fire."

Hill didn't make a sound, and he hesitated to speak a few times.Carat didn't understand, why bother with such an obvious question?

"They must have played with fire and burned their hair. They improvised such an absurd lie and blamed Fleur." Carat looked at Hill who was silent, and the heart that fell back into his chest rose again. He tried to convince himself that Fleur Lei's strange change is just sick: "You're going to cure it, right?"

"Carat." Hill finally spoke: "I want to take her away. She can't stay here any longer."

Cara was taken aback. He didn't expect that Hill would never mention Fleur's abnormality, neither explain nor plan to find a doctor. Could it be that he is such a fool that he doesn't even deserve a reason to prevaricate?He was a little angry: "You can't take it away at this time, it's sick and in pain. If you want to leave, you have to wait for it to recover. Hill, you can't be so selfish. Although I don't want to part with Fleur, I won't take it away. Hers. You trust me, knights don't lie."

"Kara..." Hill sighed: "She didn't belong here in the first place. Staying here will not only harm her, but also you. I must take her away before things get out of hand."

"We've lived together for two years, Hill, she won't hurt me." Cara said firmly: "She looks like this, where are you going to take her? What if you need a doctor on the way? It will take a long time to get out of the desert , I don't want anything to happen to Fleur."

Carat lowered her head and said without confidence: "And...we, aren't we friends, I can help you..."

Hill looked at him helplessly.

Carat was unwilling to give in at this time: "Fleur is my family. Although it may not be in the future. But I can't watch you put her in danger, and I will not stop you from taking it away when it recovers." To put it bluntly, compared to Hill, Carla feels that she is the one who has been with Fleur for two years, and naturally has a stronger position to protect Fleur than the owner who lost her pet.

What the hell is going on with this brat.

Hill was disturbed by his mouthful of family members and friends: "Family... what if she is different from what you think, what if she is not what you think she is? If she is destined not to be accepted by human beings, you will still be Is she family?"

Hill's tender green eyes were no longer gentle, and he looked at Carat. He approached step by step, his expression obviously unchanged, but Cara suddenly felt a little out of breath, as if standing in the middle of the eye of a small hurricane, and the air pressure was so low that he couldn't breathe. People panic.

"You, what are you talking about...Of course I will protect it, even if others don't like it or accept it." Carat felt her temples start beating irregularly, just like the heart hanging in her throat out of control: "I'm also not liked, accepted, so it's not an issue at all."

"She is a dragon." Hill said softly, "Knight, the one in front of you is a dragon."

The wind in my ear suddenly stopped.Carat looked at Hill in disbelief: "What are you talking about?" His heart sank slowly: "Sill, there are no dragons in this world."

"If there is. What are you going to do? What are you going to do if she has a powerful enough to destroy everything? Let her go, tame her, or simply kill her before she gets the power? You humans are destined not to live in peace, if humans finally decide to use her to torture her and kill him, will you stand up? What can you do for her then? Be a betrayer of humans?"

Arabian Nights.Carat felt that everything in front of her was unreal.He has read many stories and heard many legends. The knight slaying the dragon is enshrined in the altar of fantasy like an illusory hymn.But he knew that those fabricated stories were only about courage and protection, and the evil dragon was just the skin that people endowed with all kinds of evil in the world.In this world, there are no dragons.There should be no original sin.

He looked down at the unconscious lizard lying on the grass. The bag on its back was growing at a speed visible to the naked eye, from a semicircular bulge to a flat two pieces of flesh stretched out and drooping behind. On the back, it looks like... a pair of wings.Carat frowned: "But Fleur isn't..."

"What if she is?" Hill's eyes were calm, as if he understood Carat's answer.

"I, I don't know, Hill. I don't know." Carat's empathy is strong.Hill saw the great chaos and struggle in those clear eyes called disasters.

"You will not betray humans, knight." Hill smiled.This is not to blame for Carat, although he himself is just a dragon that has just grown up, but for the human being in front of him, he has lived a long enough time.The time a dragon sleeps is long enough for humans to subvert or destroy a civilization.He even knew this group better than Carla.

Suspicion and vigilance towards humans are inherent in dragons, and Hill never goes too far.It's a pity that Xiaolong was exposed before he could teach Fleur this.

Now the human being in front of them is their biggest threat.Things get so bad that he lets Klar watch a dragon grow wings.Although Carat is simple, she is not a fool.Other than telling the truth, Hill couldn't think of an excuse for him to still believe that Fleur was just a lizard.

If Frey was taken away, and Carat was tight-lipped, the dragon would still be a legendary creature.

"I'm going to take her, now." Hill gave the human one last chance.He hoped that Carat would not disappoint this whim of mercy, and not try to stop him.

Hill turned around with Fleur in his arms, and walked towards the gate of the manor.He raised a gust of wind to calm the turbid breath around him.There was the smell of water lilies and the fragrance of soil in the wind. Fleur turned her neck, as if she had a premonition. Xiaolong straightened up and looked back from Hill's shoulder, probably looking at the humans who have taken care of her for two years. Expression of thanks.She is still too young to remember Carat's appearance, but after decades, she may often recall a place full of flowers and herbs, even if she doesn't know where the smell comes from, but at that moment, The bottom of my heart must be warm and soft.Just like Hill at this moment.He didn't look back, two or three days was as short as a blink of an eye, a breath, a look back, and it was incomplete to say goodbye.He knew that most of his reluctance to the human kid was due to the influence of his first passion two years ago, hormones can't lie.

"Wait, Hill, wait a minute." Carat still spoke.

In Hill's rare moment of softness, besides numbness, there is also a huge disappointment.

When human beings face temptation, they will definitely lose to greed. It seems that they can't say goodbye.Hill silently raised the fingernails of his right hand, not sure whether he should intimidate Cara before knocking him out. If he dared to speak out, he would die.He silently guessed in his heart what unreasonable request Carat was going to make next, was it to threaten him, or coax him to stay and try to snatch Fleur for himself?Or, go find some helpers, and after getting the benefits, how many people will fight for blood?He had thought that Carat was not such a person.Disappointment sucks.

Carat just turned around under his various suspicions, leaving him with an undefended back.When the human lowered his head, the silky hair slid down to the sides, revealing the scar that had been bitten by the dragon.

"You take this away... probably enough for it to eat for half a month." Carat picked up a large package of air-dried beef divided by wax paper and leather strings from the ground: "It's beef hind legs, soaked...Fleur likes it the most." Yes. I only have enough money to buy these."

Carat's eye sockets were moist, and the fundus of his eyes was crystal clear, with accumulated tears that he refused to pour out.He still smiled restrainedly and politely. Hill had never seen a knight, but if there was a knight in this world, he believed it must be like Carat.

"The water source is here... wait a moment, I'll draw it for you." Carat turned and ran towards the study.He didn't go around to the main entrance, but jumped directly onto the window on the second floor.Although this doesn't look elegant at all.Hill's right hand regained the softness of a human being, his disappointment disappeared, and his heart was instantly filled with tenderness.

"Carat." Hill called him, and took out the Carat card that Carat had carried for many years from his arms, and Carat gave it to him in a hurry the night he met Finny.Although the old leather cord has worn down over time, the metallic parts are still shiny.Hill tied the card to his wrist for him: "I forgot to return it to you."

The finely polished metal plate still carried Hill's body temperature. Carat resisted, pulled out her wrist and urged, "Let's go quickly. Protect Fleur."

He didn't say goodbye, they might never meet again in their lifetime.

With Fleur, with Hill.

He stood silently on the spot and watched the strangely dressed young man with a pair of good-looking eyes leave with a baby dragon.Hill's pace seemed to be very slow, but the road was so long, they quickly disappeared from sight, as if they had never appeared before, leaving behind an empty gravel road that was bleached in the sun.In just a blink of an eye, Carat felt that she had woken up from her dream.

"Mr. Jem." Two waitresses in green dresses and white aprons appeared behind him and interrupted his daze.

Carat turned around, and the older girl quickly lowered her head to avoid his gaze. The younger girl looked no more than 12 or 3 years old. She looked at Carat's face in a daze, with her mouth half-opened.

"Is there anything I can do for you, ma'am?" Carla smiled at her.

The woman next to him tugged the little girl's skirt and reminded her in a low voice: "Don't look into his eyes!" Then, without any emotion, she said to Clara: "Mr. Eben invites you to lunch."

Carat was taken aback for a moment, this was clearly not a decent invitation to lunch, and Fleur's business was really endless.

Honeymoon:

Alas, the cutie I tagged was bullied since she was a child, yet her heart is still so soft.

What can I do...