XII. Learning about the Past

Since that near-fatal stop, Ssaull had to rest a little to heal from those painful wounds she received, Alexandra had offered to drive her, but the dragon refused because it was risky to let her be outside for the human as well as for him. Besides explaining that these horses were well trained not to depend on a driver to walk; naturally she had been disappointed because she wanted to do something different for a change, luckily she remembers the things they collected in that abandoned camp.

Alexandra waited for Ssaull to fall asleep to see the black bags. She thought before about whether this broke the agreement of the limits but came to the conclusion that it should not be like that, technically she had the right to observe the content, she almost lost her life in the process of helping him and he owed her too. She had done the part of it and stayed with him at all times, so she could check a few things if she needed her permission or supervision.

She took the black bag that she had carried that blue dragon, she opened it and took out the first thing that her hand had touched. The first thing was a notebook that contained illustrations, or at least that was how she considered it, only that these illustrations seemed like small mirrors to another part of the world, like when she found that magazine, it seemed that it was that dead and abandoned site that she and Ssaull They were, just that he was different, more alive and with dragons and best of all with other humans.

"If there are more humans," she said curious and wanting to see more.

She reviewed each page one by one, the first five seemed to show how people and dragons cooperated building that site, she kept looking at more images to see what she learned. Human men and women, adults, young people her age, and even the elderly. There were humans of all sizes and colors too, she thought that all humans had light skin like her, but she was wrong, there were humans with dark skin, brown, some light and even lighter than her; Alexandra would have liked very much to have met more people so that she would not feel so lonely and so hated.

Hated? Her mind clicked at this feeling, if dragons and humans got along, then why was she so hated or despised, and what had happened to those humans in the images? Many times she asked her mother about her human family, at the age of twelve she began to show more interest in her past and if she had any human family, but her mother Magarai never answered her doubts and never gave a justification about why she avoided much the subject with her.

"Maybe here there some clue," she said to herself.

The human girl checked the last pages but nothing, the last photo she found was only a bluish dragon of the terrestrial race wearing the clothes of a Greater Dragon with her back to a dark-skinned human who seemed to speak to her. She was very disappointed, she was waiting for a clue or something even a small one that would tell her what happened to the site and the humans there.

"I guess that's all I can get out of here," she said. "At least there are more things to check" she directed her gaze from her and looked for more things from the bag taking a small notebook. "Uh? It's a diary, I wonder if"

Alexandra opens the notebook to any page.

"Damn what kind of writing is this? It's not dragonish and I don't understand what it says here" she tosses the notebook aside.

She went through other things in Ssaull's bag and found nothing but a few trinkets, bracelets, and other uninteresting items. Alexandra took from the bag that she carried and began to take things from there, she found a small box with many buttons, she pressed a large one with a curious symbol making the black part of the object show images as well.

At first, it was difficult for him to understand what the object was until he began to touch the other buttons causing him to start changing the screen to different images until he found one of Ssaull wearing the clothes of the Greater Dragon and the same dark-skinned girl, he took the Image album and began to compare the box and the notebook, Ssaull dressed as Greater Dragon had a lot of kinship with the other dragon, the clothing hid the protruding bones, and if he is from the back you cannot see his face protected by the frontal skull. He and the other dragon must be the same, the human concluded, observing more and more the two images, she wanted so much to wake him up and ask him so many questions about his discovery, but she saw the bandages and in his eyes and medicinal plants next to them.

"I should ask Ssaull when he's better. He suffered a lot inside that place and deserves to rest a bit," she told herself being considerate of his status.

She put the box and the notebook aside to have it handy when he woke up, she was like that for a long time observing things that we're curious to her as another that only generated a lot of confusion in her, mainly because of the strange writing that certain objects have and others because he did not know what said the object was and therefore only generated more doubt than answers.

"Mmm," Ssaull was starting to wake up.

"Ssaull, you're already awake," she said bringing a cup of fresh water and some fruit so that she could eat him.

He takes off the bandages on his face.

"And tell me. Did you learn a lot by observing the things we collected?" she reacts to his comment, how did you know she was seeing the objects?

"How did you know?" she answered with another question.

"Since I met you I could suspect that you are a rather curious person," he finishes taking off his bandages "you abused the sanctity of my things once, and instead of lying or denying yourself, you confessed without problem that you checked our loot" he expressed with a smile.

The human showed the box with the image and the image of the notebook.

"Are you true?" she put things closer to him for him to review.

"Yes, that's me," she said without caring.

"Ok this is a bit disappointing" she replied.

"Sorry if I do not react as you would have liked," she begins to feed "those images are from a long time ago, from a time that no longer matters and therefore is not something that excites me to remember" he finished.

"But you are a Greater Dragon, you are a Greater Dragon!" she said impressed "It's amazing! I always thought it was all ..."

"My lies" he added smiling, the human only nods "remember the human saying," he says.

"Something about the books and the trials." She replied, not remembering the saying, the dragon shakes his head with some laughs.

"You should not judge a book by its cover. If you believe that everything you see is the only truth, I assure you that you could find a possible death for what deceives you at first glance." the dragon explained to the human.

The dragon sees the images again and his face seemed very concentrated in that image, he did not seem to smile presumptuously, nor was another emotion seen as he observed the image, he just watched him and that's it.

"Do you still want to know a little about humans?" Alexandra's eyes shone upon hearing that, she took a seat near Ssaull and stayed silent to listen to everything he told her "Wow, you are interested, but before you do it" he lets go playfully "How much did you get to know? Or. Learn by your side? ".

"Not much, I could only guide myself with the images and some poems that I found in Dragonica, it seems that a certain Samantha missed her family a lot, but thanks to the help of the good dragons, she could find the hope of returning home together with her family "she replies. "All I can say is that if it weren't for these realistic drawings I wouldn't have much to understand."

"They are known as photos" he answers.

"Photos?" she asks curiously.

He takes the box from the table and approaches the human.

"Say cheese" without waiting for an answer, he smiles showing her fangs, and takes the photo. Alexandra was scared believing that this was some kind of weapon or charm, she was a little stunned by the flash "Oh this thing had the flash on. Impressive" He commented seeing the image. Alexandra raises her sword against Ssaull "

"You have five seconds to tell me what fangs were that?" she demands threateningly.

"I took a picture of us" Ssaull replies showing the human that the box now had a new realistic drawing, it was shown that it was the two of them in said image.

Alexandra looks in amazement as the drawing of the box had been made in a matter of seconds and was as realistic as the others.

"That box is amazing," she says, amazed, looking more closely at her image.

"Yes, well, humans call these things cameras, and with them, you can take many photos or real images as you say;" He says smiling "also, if the photo is not your thing, you can make a video too" the dragon begins to touch buttons and points the camera at the human.

"Are you going to take another photo of me?" she asks, putting the sword aside. The blue dragon shows the camera screen again and plays the short video he made with it "Incredible, it's as if I saw the past move as many times as I want" she said taking the camera and playing the video over and over again.

"I know, I was as surprised as you the first time she taught me everything I know about your culture," he said proudly of himself for everything he had learned.

"And who is she?" she asks pointing to the dark-skinned human. "No one told me that humans could have different skin colors. Where are she and the other humans? I have so much to talk to them, what language do they use? I don't think they speak Dragonica like us, it must be something human right"

Alexandra had so many questions and she couldn't wait for the answers it was as if something inside her had lit up with great joy and excitement. Ssaull takes her hands to calm her down a bit and keeps listening.

"Human beings are as curious as dragons, we initially believed that humans were creatures that were very similar to each other and not at all extraordinary, or so it was until we met more humans of all kinds of traits that did not They were always the same as the previous one. The language of humans, because if I'm honest with you, you don't seem to agree with it, we met people who at first spoke one language, I think it was English, but other people came and spoke differently. " He explained.

"How many languages do humans speak?"

"As I understand there are many, but those who came to our lands spoke in English as I said before, but others spoke Russian, Spanish, French, and Japanese. Despite not having a coherent order of languages between them, that seems to prevent them from communicate with each other "affirmed the dragon.

"It must be troublesome having a lot of different languages and having to learn them. Right?" she wondered.

"Not so much, some even learned to master our language in one or two years" he clarifies.

Alexandra was more and more amazed at what she was learning, humans were fluent in many languages and had unique characteristics, not all of them were the same as seen with the naked eye. Her excitement only grew more and more to meet and learn more about the past, culture, and values of her people. The expression on Ssaull's face changes to a partially sad one taking the concerned human off guard.

"I wish I could tell you about the girl and a possible place where you can find more of yours, but I'm afraid that will never be possible" she opens her eyes when she hears that, when she finally had hopes of finding more of her own and not feeling alone in the world as the only human surrounded by dragons, that hope quickly burned in front of her.

"Are they dead?"

It was the first thing she thought feeling how a large hole formed in her chest, it was there that she remembered the skeleton that did not belong to dragons or wild animals. They were all humanoid, and in a sense, they didn't fit in with what she already knew about dragons. The camp was also destroyed, any type of track or human person had been destroyed or disappeared, everything except Ssaull who appeared in said camp.

"One moment you were there, you should know even if you are a little bit of that place," she says with a strong desire that that skeletal dragon knew something.

"If one wants to know the truth seriously, one must be able to accept it for what it is and not for how one wants it to be." It was what the dragon said to the human, "The camp was destroyed long ago by dragons, that's all I can tell you."

Alexandra doesn't say anything, she just stares at the dragon waiting for her to give more explanation.

"I wish I could tell you something that makes you feel good, but I don't even know what happened in that camp" The dragon starts walking to the driver's seat "Yes, I was there that's a fact, but I wasn't there when the night where the dragons happened they won".

"The night where the dragons won?" she asks curiously.

He stops only to turn around.

"If one day Magarai dares to tell you. Let her tell you what that night consisted of that night when the kings and nobles of Morkhex gave the order to destroy and capture the humans" The dragon you finish going to watch the road and drive a little.

The last thing Ssaull had told made Alexandra very thoughtful and even more so about why the great nobles of Morkhex would order something like that, Ssaull must know him, since he was a Greater Dragon at that time, but she suspected that the blue dragon He wouldn't say anything to her no matter how much she insisted, because Alexandra would have to ask her mother about it according to him.