Whitestar felt his lips start to curl at the snide comment from the guard, but he forced his snarl down, fixing a cold but steady composure on his face. Which, of course, only grew harder as the human continued.Austin saw the stare Whitestar was giving him and it almost scared him in a way. He hadn't been scared of a dragon in a long while, but the situation was stressing him out and he knew that Whitestar had the power to give him away.
Finally, the dragon answered, "I'm an Icewing. I thought that was obvious."
Austin cringed a little at the ending comment. Yeah, make the guard who doesn't like us mad at us.
The anger on the guard's face was evident and he looked back at Austin, "This how you raise your dragons? To be smartmouths?" He turned back to the dragon and answered the question angrily, "If you must know, there was a breakout from the rebellion. Dragons like you killin friends of mine to escape and not gettin punished for it. Dragons like you-"
Austin interrupted, keeping his professional demeanor he walked over to the guard and pulled him aside, "No, sir, trust me he will be reprimanded," Austin said quietly. "It's my fiance, see. She tends to spoil them. She just adores dragons."
The guard scoffed, "Well, then this is no place for her! She better leave or she's going to be upset by every activity we do here."
Austin laughed and nodded his consent, "Yes, sir, I know. But, she wanted to come. I'm worried though, that the activities and things have scared her and she went to hide. That's why we're looking for her currently." Putting on his best worried face, he looked the guard in the eyes, "I hope you can understand my predicament."
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"Dragons like me" don't want anything to do with the abuse you put them through, and it's shocking how blindly you expect them to accept a life like that.
Whitestar's tail lashed as the bitter thought burned through his mind and it took everything he had not to say it aloud, instead, listening in silent fury to the conversation between Austin and the Den guard.
How stupid are these humans?
He thought back to Alyssia, worry slightly dampening his rage. She was the only human he'd seen or even heard of having an ounce of sympathy and understanding for dragons. Why was it so impossibly rare to find one that had all of their screws in place?
And now she was missing, vanished somewhere into the deadly, twisting halls of the Den. And what was Austin doing about it? Running scared for the exit without her. He wasn't really trying.
An idea was slowing bubbling up in Whitestar's mind and he glanced back at the two humans before sidestepping slowly, quietly toward the nearest hall.
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