Kaida's ice-cold voice shook Long, but instead of answering, she only looked at Kaida. They kept looking at each other without saying anything until Jaya wanted to go past Long. Long got up quickly and tried to hide something behind her body.
"Long stand still now"
Long could not go against Kaida's orders and stopped immediately. Kaida walked past her to Jaya. When she stood near Jaya, she saw that she was grinning stupidly.
"Why are you grinning like that?"
Jaya quickly grabbed her by the hand and guided her to a nest
"congratulations your queen, as soon as we are back I will examine you. Do you remember when you had your last monthly bleeding? "
Kaida was surprised and looked surprised in the nest. There she saw two eggs. Is this real? Am I really blessed with not just one but two children in the first year?
She looked at the dragon eggs but she felt that something was wrong. Why would Long behave like this when it was only a pregnancy?
She looked at the nest again, and then it was noticeable that it was a big nest for two eggs. Is it not common for a dragon to make the nest larger than needed for the number of eggs? She glanced at Long, who was still acting weird.
She looked at Long and said
"Long is this why you behaved like that? Isn't it a bit extreme? You have chased the villagers away "
Long just looked at her and again didn't answer. Kaida raised her eyebrow and turned back to the nest. She walked closer and touched the eggs. Suddenly an emotion of lose and sorrow overwhelmed her.
In the meantime, Long had stood up and tried to get away. When she realized that Kaida had touched the dragon eggs, she opened her mouth and tried to bite into something that was in her mouth.
Before she had the chance to close her mouth, she was chained with a chain of fire and she fell to the floor and could not move.
When Long fell down, another dragon egg rolled out of her mouth. The three looked surprised at Long, who was lying on the floor with a guilty look, and then they looked at the dragon egg. The dragon egg was visibly smaller than the other two dragon eggs and differed a lot in it temperature.
Jaya screamed and coverd her mouth with hands. Rei dropped to her knees and put her hands in her hair.
Kaida was startled but kept her posture. She walked over to the dragon egg and touched it. It was weak, but she felt that there was still life in the dragon egg.
Long moaned and said,
"my mistress throughout the tribe's history, three dragon eggs have never been laid at the same time. Every day I feel less life coming from the dragon egg. In addition, it is impossible that your body can give birth to three children. If I had not been so weak and had broken the dragon egg before, nobody would have suffered "
Kaida rubbed Long's nose
"don't worry the dragon egg is still alive."
When Jaya and Rei heard that, they were surprised because they were convinced that the dragon egg no longer contained any life due to the low temperature it gave off.
They quickly recovered them self and hurried to Kaida. Jaya looked at her hesitantly and did not know if she should say what was in her head.
"Talk Jaya"
When she heard Kaida's voice she spoke in a soft tone
"your queen despite the fact that the dragon egg still contains life I would advise you to release it from his suffering. This also increases the chance of a safe pregnancy and giving birth for you "
Kaida looked at Jaya and said in a Cold tone
"as long as the dragon egg contains life, it life remains. I willl send a message to my aunt Rana, until she has a solution it is forbidden to talk about what happened here. "
Jaya and Rei nodded. Kaida turned to Long and took off the chain of fire.
"Long in a few days I will go to the other three tribe. I've seen the dragon eggs, you don't have to hide them anymore. It's time to leave them in the nest. If they dont survive, they simply weren't strong enough "
Kaida picked up the dragon egg and felt a warm feeling. When they placed the dragon egg by the other two dragon eggs, the earlier feeling of loss and sorrow disappeared and it was moved by a happy and joyfull feeling. Kaida smiled at the dragon eggs
"So it was because you two were not complete"
She went to Long and climbed on her back and went outside. Outside, Jaya and Rei were ready to leave. Rei looked at Kaida and asked
"what are we going to tell to the king?"
Kaida thought about it and said
"nothing yet, only when we have received notice from my aunt and beside it is my sister's wedding. All revolves around her "
She looked back again and then rose with Long followed by Jaya and Rei.
.....
Kaida walked with Jaya on the streets of the tribe, they were on their way to the gates of the tribe. She was deep in thought, the annual fox festival was six months ago.
Until now they had not found out who stole the dragon egg and where the dragon was now. And the news that she was pregnant with not one but three children was still too unreal for her.
Since she knew she was pregnant, she suddenly suffered from all kinds of ailments, which made it difficult to conceal it.
In the morning she was sick and she could sleep all day. She suddenly had a desire for Huli and regularly visited him in his office.
When she got to his study he was mainly working and she slept more on the sofa than they actually had a conversation.
Several times she almost told hem, and she found it hard not to tell Him. Therefor she was happy that the day had come to visit the other three tribes.
They would first travel to the East to visit the snake tribe, from there they would travel further south with a envoy of the snake tribe to visit the familiar dragon tribe. Then she would travel to the West with Kenta and the envoy of the snake tribe to reach the wolf tribe.
When they arrived at the gates, they saw that Nana had already arrived. Next to her was a large light brown fox with seven tails. Nana saw that they were coming and stood up. When Jaya and Kaida stopped in front of her, Nana bowed.
"Your highness it is an honor to be able to accompany you on this journey"
Kaida looked at Nana and saw the obvious difference in her attitude. Where she had previously taken an arrogant and mean attitude, she now had a more open and respectful attitude towards Kaida.
Kaida nodded to Nana and said
"it takes three hours to fly to the east on a dragon, how long is it on a fox? "
Nana noted that Kaida still had a reserved attitude towards her and could understand that. But the more she looked at Kaida, the more she thought she looked different. She seemed a bit fuller and she had a glow over her.
"Your highness Jia is one of the fastest foxes of our tribe alongside Fu. I will do my best to keep up with you. But by air is faster than by land and at normal pace it takes 5 hours to drive to the East "
Kaida thought for a moment and then said
"Jaya will fly forward to keep an eye on the surroundings, if there is anything she will come and tell us. Kayra has mapped out the fastest routes we can take. I propose that we leave now so that we will be at the snake tribe before sunset "
Nana nodded and climbed up on Jia. Kaida put her fingers in her mouth and whistled loudly. Within a few seconds, Long came and landing for Kaida.
Long laid down so that Kaida could climb on her back more easily.
"Long how are the dragon eggs"
Long stood up and spread her wings
"well your queen, amazingly the temperature of the smallest dragon egg has risen a few degrees"
Kaida smiled and rubbed Long's back
"that's good, it takes a while until we reach the dragon tribe and can talk to my aunt. Don't worry, we will find a suitable solution. Let's go "
Nana and Jaya had already left when Kaida and Long took off and flew towards them. When Kaida joined them, Jaya flew higher and she started flying faster until she disappeared into the distance.
Kaida flew alongside Nana and noticed that Nana and Jia could keep up with her and Long. All the way it was quiet between Nana and Kaida until nana spoke.
"Your highness I think it is better to fly higher now, within a few minutes we will approaching the forest. I don't know what it's like to fly and avoid the trees. "
Kaida laughed
"don't worry, we have bigger forests in the dragon tribe and we fly through that. I think it will be okay "