I am a dragon! Help me! (TOME 4 of the TIAMAT'S WARS SERIE)

Inside the Mouth of Fire

Tania was whimpering and losing all her strength when he gave the sermon to the brigand to pray.

She did so and managed to say goodbye to her dragon friends...

She also regretted Isolde...

Then, slowly, the commando in her came back...

"Ok, I'm not a dragon anymore... I'm still alive... AND she looked around her, a knife, a sharp object or a way to break the shackle on someone's neck. But the 2 carts were followed by archers on horseback, the shackles on the feet would not allow an escape in the woods and rocks.

After she had said goodbye, the carts arrived at an outpost and soldiers were waiting near a huge heap of straw.

An executioner with an axe was waiting and an officer was holding scrolls with a list of the condemned and the reason.

One of the men fled but was shot in the back with several arrows after a few steps.

The officer listed the tortured one by one and then general Tullius arrived on horseback and shouted stop...

He wanted to see the dragon before he was put to death. He noticed that Tania's shadow was still a dragon...

He was afraid: Take her to the mouth of fire! ...and him with it! pointing at the Concrete.

They made us get back on the cart, still hampered and I was so afraid that my trousers were wet...

Then I noticed a bulb in the seam of the pocket. If I managed to touch it...

In the Harkonnen uniforms, electronic fibres were used to call for help or to call a vehicle independently ...

I had the remote control for the tongue of fire... the underground tank.

I contorted myself but I needed the concrete in front of me...

"You, if you want to live, you see the drawing on the side of my uniform? There's a bump, press your fingers on it and squeeze the bubble..."

The concrete man looked at me, incredulous...

"This is technology from another world, if you want to live, I'll take you with me. But we don't have a minute to lose, it's for reinforcements.

The concrete man hesitated between denouncing me to avoid capital punishment and a risky adventure, then he said to himself, I am concrete and these dirty sons of .... ... I haven't said my last word, Ralof's word !

The concrete man looked at Tania very hard : "I see that you want to live and you are able to fight. Well, well... I also have a plan...

You see, Tullius... The general, he does not always work for Vaillant. In fact, he's undermining his potential allies and is eliminating them one by one under false pretences such as treason, slave trade, alliances with dragon lords..."

With these words, Tania's face lit up...

"He has organised an army with technicians to force the hand of Vaillant and take power without dismissing him, in fact Vaillant will be nothing more than Tullius' puppet.

He is fearsome and a fine strategist. And he financed research on lost science and made discoveries in secret and they secretly built some kind of chariots like the Harkonnens', magic chariots... He wants to crush the Baltics and take their underground network, or at least bring it to heel and crush Altus, at least leave him only the spiritual power.

He has been careful not to lose his men in the battle against the orcs and the Dragon Lord George...

We arrived after a long journey in view of the sea, all the way to the west.