“My daughter,” the so-called dragon who was my so-called father said to me. “I have missed you!”

I nodded, keeping it to myself what I now knew about this dragon.

“Look!” Dragon Little pointed at Dragon Father. “Dragon Father!” Then she pointed at the elderly fake dragon, “Dragon Father!” She pointed from one to the other as she said: “Dragon Father, Dragon Father, Dragon Father, Dragon Father!”

Dragon Little laughed. Dragon Father laughed. I did not laugh.

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“Who are you?” The older dragon said to Dragon Little. “Are you a friend of my daughter?”

I looked at them, my mind still in wild disarray, refusing to accept what I was seeing.

Dragon Little was walking towards him.

“We’re best friends!”

Dragon Little was getting closer to the older dragon, when I understood what was about to happen.

“Nooo!” I roared fire at the space between the dragon and Dragon Little.

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I straightened. “Beware, Joy!” I shouted. I would not call her ‘Dragon Little’ in front of a dragon. “This dragon has come to kill us!”

I leapt at the older red dragon that was supposed to be my father.

The other dragon rose into the air and jumped back even as Dragon Father jumped forward to block the way.

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I landed in the dark entrance to the cave at the top of the volcano. Here, Dragon Father claimed my father was waiting for me.

I lowered my head and Dragon Little and Dragon Father jumped to the ground.

The entrance was big enough for me to walk through, but it was dark and bended inside so that we could not see the inside.

I had joined their adventure without asking because I needed to make sure that Dragon Father did not teach Dragon Little false things about dragons. Dragons were not creatures of his dream and if he convinced her otherwise, then when the day came and she left her father’s dream, when the day came and she met my former enslavers, she would be equipped with the wrong knowledge.

It was my task to teach her the truth about dragons. Well.. some of it. At least at this young age.

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