Kaida sat in the throne chamber with her face in her hand and looked with ice-cold eyes at the five warriors who were on their knees before her.
"So you are telling me that in a month time you still have not found one clue about the disappearance of the dragon egg?"
The cold tone in her voice caused the warriors to shiver. The front warrior looked up hesitantly and said
"If I may be so free your queen, we have searched everywhere from the west to the east, from the north to the south. But it looks like the dragon egg never existed. The mother of the dragon egg also could not be found "
Kaida looked at the warriors and sighed.
"I don't understand why you are on your knees before me, it's not your fault. The reason why I am angry is not your fault either. You have done your best, in a few hours the rest of our army will arrive. My king has given us a large hectares of land. Tell lord Kaën that I want all the houses to be built within six months. And tell lord Koto that he is responsible for the land and the crops. "
When Kaida stood up, the warriors rose and bowed. Just right before Kaida wanted to walk out the door of the throne chamber, she had a bursting headache and her whole body became hot. She grabbed her head and collapsed. She tried to keep her eyes open, but before she knew it she lost consciousness.
The warriors quickly came running towards her. The warrior who had just spoken , gave ordes to the other ones. One warrior had to quickly get Jaya and the rest had to absorb as much heat as possible before the entire palace and perhaps the entire tribe went up in smoke.
......
When Kaida opened her eyes she saw that she was no longer in the throne Chamber. She looked around but only saw a large lawn that she did not know. She continued on the lawn, but there was no end to it and there was nothing to see but grass.
Just when she wanted to continue walking, she saw a little boy of about five or six years. His face was blurry and the only thing she could see well was his red curly hair. He was holding a dragon egg in his hands.
He said something to the dragon egg that Kaida could not understand. She walked towards him, but no matter how far she walked, she couldn't get any closer to him.
Suddenly she saw a shadow standing next to the boy. She could not see if it was a man or a woman, but she did see the hostile attitude of the shadow toward the boy.
The shadow pointed to the dragon egg and hit the boy hard in the face. The boy fell down on the lawn while protecting the dragon egg.
The shadow disappeared as quickly as it had come and the boy was left alone with the dragon egg. Kaida looked at the dragon egg and she noticed that it was the missing dragon egg. She tried to get closer to the boy again, but no matter how she tried it didn't work.
Suddenly the boy looked in her direction and gave off an incredible heat and walked towards kaida. The dragon egg started to crack and gradually pieces of shell fell off the dragon egg. When the boy was right in front of Kaida, he had a little dragon in his hand.
The dragon looked at Kaida and spewed fire. The moment the dragon did that, the whole lawn caught fire and it seemed that Kaida was trapped in the fire.
Kaida woke up covered in sweat and looked pale. She looked arround and saw that she was back in the palace. She was panting and feeling stuffy.
Rei came with a cloth to wipe her forehead.
"Kaida what's the matter?"
Kaida looked at Rei absently and needed time to process everything. As the mother of all dragons, she had a connection with all dragons, and immediately knew when a dragon egg had hatched.
A week after the fox festival she also felt that the dragon eggs had hatched, but it had not been such an experience.
It was clear that the dragon egg had been forced to hatch. And who was the boy? the Red hair is undoubtedly a royal feature.
"Rei was there a boy with red hair born before or during the war in the dragon tribe?"
Rei looked up surprised and thought about it
"no my darling, Father Kai and Mother Rana have had a baby girl but she only has a red glow over her hair. In the royal family you are the only one with the red hair of your ancestors. Only the last child born of the former queen and the king has, besides black hair, locks of red hair "
Kaida got up and went to the table by the window and took two sheets of paper and then the pencil from the inkwell. She wrote something on both and when she was done she rolled up the sheets and put her stamp on it.
Rei noticed that this time she used her stamp of the dragon tribe and not the one she had received from Huli after their marriage.
Kaida walked towards Rei with a dubious look and said,
"Rei do you remember the event of my Uncle Kaidon's downfall? I don't know why but I think this situation has something to do with it. I should bother you with this task, would you secretly give these roles to Salmus and Chao? "
Rei looked up in surprise and wondered why Kaida sent a message to both the king of the snake tribe and the Wolves tribe. Without asking, she nodded and said,
"I will return at the earliest at the next sunrise, do you also expect a message back"
Kaida shoke her head
"that is not necessary, in six months time the wedding of Kyona and Cuan wille be held, a few days before there is a meeting for only the rulers of the four tribes. We will talk there. "
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Huli walked through the streets of the tribe with Ronin and Kyro. They had guided the army of Kaida to the land that Huli had given her as a dowry. Because Kaida was not yet awake, he had taken on the task of receiving the warriors.
Her army was large and Huli had struggled to speak as much warriors as possible. From the conversations it became clear to him how loved Kaida was among her people.
He was glad that the warriors already gave Kaida's orders to Kaën and Koto. As soon as he had the opportunity, he had left for the palace together with Ronin and Kyro.
Just when Huli wanted to enter the palace, he saw a familiar figure that made his heart beat faster and he quickly looked again at the place where he saw the person.
But he only saw Tama walking with a basket full of healing herbs. Her brother was walking behind her and he was also carrying a basket with a few flowers. Behind them were 2 little dragons and 2 little foxes.
Huli looked at them and wondered why both a fox and a dragon were following the two. He wanted to walk on until he heard a soft voice calling him
"Uncle Huli, you are already back with Uncle Ronin and Uncle Kyro. Don't worry about Aunt Red, our father is helping mum to make her better again "