The Undetected Stranger

"Did you let a stranger come in?' Thesilius asked. "What stranger? What happened?" Theodore asked, looking up from his papers and frowning. "I was collecting firewood outside, when I saw a stranger with long, black scales, dressed in rags, shuffling into the cave. I asked him what he was doing, but he didn't answer. He pressed someone's ring to the hole, and the rock slid aside. Do you know who he is." Theodore got up, and walked out the door. Thesilius followed, his tail swishing behind him.

Theodore took the torch right in front of his cave, and started walking through the winding corridors and stopped in front of a large stone. He put his palm on it and it slowly started shifting aside. Inside, it was very different from outside. There were people and dragons walking around, talking and passing papers. The dragon and man went to the end of the hall and went to a desk piled with such a large stack of papers, that it was hard to see the small person sitting behind it. "Did someone undetected come in, Filius? Theodore asked. "Undetected?" Filius asked, perturbed. "No, why?" "Thesilius saw someone come in. But I didn't let him." Theodore said, frowning. "I see who it is." Filius said.

Thesilius and Theodore were walking towards the door. A passing dragon offered Theodore some water, and he took it. "Who do you think the stranger is?" Theodore asked Thesilius, before taking a sip of water. "I don't know. Security is very valued here. To think that someone might have entered without permission is very disturbing, isn't it? Theodore?" Thesilius added when Theodore didn't reply. But Theodore was frozen. He started becoming dizzy, and fell to the ground. "Theodore!" Thesilius shouted, catching him at the last second. Many heads turned this way.

"The water..." Thesilius realized. "He's been poisoned!" He announced. Murmurs filled the room. Thesilius spotted the dragon with the water glasses trying to get away slowly, sneaking and reaching towards the door. "And he did it!" Thesilius shouted again. It was chaos. The dragon started galloping, and people in front of him tried tripping on him, or pouncing on him. But the man succeeded reaching the entrance. While stopping abruptly at the door, his hood flew back, Thesilius gasped. "Frenade?!"