The Isle (TOME 7 of the TIAMAT'S WARS SERIE)

Impossible reunions

The dragons, frightened, did not know where to go. If they could change planets, they would.

But they gathered at Linton's, praying that I wouldn't come near them.

Fear stunned them and made any logical reasoning diffuse.

Akulathraxas didn't help in any way by adding layers.

For her, devourer + dino + Inferno + helmet of brilliance + electrons, it was the end of the world...

Fortunately, whisky had a beneficial, soothing effect.

Then Wistala shouted... "Children... we forgot the children on the island with Nicolas"...

But she reassured herself when she saw them arrive, but she pulled another face when she saw the others arrive. About fifty little dragoraptors, all out of breath from having flown for so long. They were younger but followed Octavia and Augustus.

Lampton: "He entrusted us with his little ones. It was a gesture of trust. We have nothing to fear at the moment."

Linton: "I think he's trying to protect us too by mixing. To avoid his father's rage and madness. He won't risk the lives of his grandchildren, especially Svy, if they're with others."

Wistala: "Yes, I think you're right."

Marius: "He's stingy with words but each one is well weighed. And you, grandmother, what do you think?"

Akulathraxas: "Marius...it's terrible. It's a nightmare. But we know Nicolas... He's one of us... I'd rather have him at the helm than the Toga or one of his henchmen, not to mention Inferno.

If he is murdered, the others will take revenge and his father will simply swallow the earth. He won't even try to make fun of us. Besides he is your son and nephew and he hasn't hurt anyone here and John and the others are still his friends".

Then, thinking: "If we have to eliminate it, we need another devourer", she realised what she had just said by raising her head. "No... I didn't mean that, Wistala".

Wistala: "I understand, Mama, but I would need Tartarus' strength... and all of you to hold him back..."

Akulathraxas: "Yes, and he has an army with him..."

Ruugard: "Mama is right... but I think you're wrong...

Nicolas is nice...bitter, yes, but still nice..." Nicolas is nice...bitter, yes, but still nice... He needs us more than you can imagine... He had this weight on his conscience and he revealed everything."

Auron : " Yes, my brother is right...we are not human, we have never been human and who says that they are not going to put us in reserves or deport us or limit our liberties?".

Linton: "It's true that we are afraid, but has he threatened us? He warned Marius, saving his life. When you beat him, Akulathraxas, he suffered without revolt. You burned him alive and he took refuge near Wistala, his adoptive mother. But also his aunt.

We all know Aguirre and Yamato. We've allied ourselves but they don't love us and have never loved us. Apart from IO, her favourite Miko, an expert boot-licker, would you like to end up like her?"

With that, they concluded and waited anxiously for the next day.

Meanwhile I was very busy, even if I didn't show it or let it seem so.

I listened to the information on the holographic screens. They were talking about tensions in Africa, governments and politics, armed conflicts and a coup d'état in Côte d'Ivoire over dangerous carnivorous fauna, the dinosaurs being back on earth after 65 million years. Blah blah blah blah, always the same news but nobody spoke about the Brotherhood or the GDI who had been waging war against each other for decades, even centuries by proxy countries. States sometimes passed from one camp to the other according to their interminable debts. In 3 centuries, nothing had changed there. What I would like to do once is to go to the north to see if my family's grave still exists, but I doubt it, a concession being 50 years maximum...