'Grawnpa'
'Grawnpa'
"Hahahaha"
'Sleep?'
'Grawnpa'
Lian, who was sleeping wonderfully, slowly opened his eyes. Irritated he looked around.
'What is that I hear? Whose voice is that?'
Lian looked ahead and saw something slowly approaching. The closer it got, the more clearly he could see what or who it was.
He saw Hiroki crawling towards him while laughing. His red eyes glistened with joy, and his red curly hair moved back and forth in the wind.
' Mm so nostalgic, looking just as naughty as his mother. Kaida always came crawling like that when she was exploring Katsumi's place of thought'
Lian yawned and laid down again. He was already used to it because he had regularly seen the ten royal children in Katsumi's place of thought.
Just when he wanted to go back to sleep he heard a voice in his mind again.
'Grawnpa'
Lian opened his eyes and looked at Hiroki in surprise.
'No this can never be his voice.'
Meanwhile, Hiroki was now sitting on the side of Lian's head, slapping Lian's nose wildly with his little hands as he laughed.
'Grawnpa'
'Up'
Hiroki stood up and rubbed Lian's nose with his cheek, trying to hug his head with his short arms.
"Move, I'm not fond of children, your mother, uncles and aunts have never treated me like this!"
Lian felt embarrassed because Hiroki approached him without inhibitions and was not afraid at all. When Lian got up and wanted to leave, Hiroki grabbed his paw and laughed.
' stay'
Obviously, Hiroki had no intention of listening to Lian, nor was he planing to leave, so Lian laid down again.
He roared at Hiroki to scare him, when he did this to the royal children, most of them left. Only Kaida and Kenta were not afraid when he roared when they were a child.
Hiroki was also not afraid and just started laughing harder and tried to climb on Lian. Lian pretended not to realize Hiroki's intentions and watched the boy slip from him over and over.
Hiroki crawled to Lian's wing and tried to climb up on Lian his back through the wing. When that failed, he crawled to Lian's tail and tried to climb up through his tail. But this also failed because Hiroki was much too small.
Hiroki liked sliding Lian's tail so he kept doing that several times. Lian, on the other hand, began to get irritated immensely and moved his tail back and forth. hoping Hiroki would leave his tail alone.
However, this gave the opposite result, because Hiroki liked it and started giggling loudly. Lian sighed and then lowered his tail back onto the grass.
' why didn't I go to sleep in my own place of thought again?'
Hirkoi suddenly climbed off Lian's tail and sat on his bottom. he looked around, until suddenly he frowned looking in one direction. he crawled back to Lian's head and stood beside him.
'Au'
' there'
Lian continued to hear the voice in his mind. But when he looked at Hiroki, he just laughed or gestured. Lian looked at Hiroki who pointed in the distance as his cheerful face turned into a sad face.
'Au'
'Drajon'
'Au'
Lian narrowed his eyes and looked at Hiroki. From the little vocabulary He heard, he now knew for sure that he heard Hiroki's voice in his mind. He still wondered how it was possible but would talk about that with Kaida or his master Zuko.
"You want me to take you somewhere?"
Hiroki looked at Lian and nodded sadly.
'Au'
' fast'
Lian got up and took Hiroki in his paw. He was unsure whether to put him on his back, but since Hiroki was so small he thought it was best to keep him in his paw.
"Show the way young prince"
Hiroki nodded and pointed ahead. Lian decided to fly straight ahead as there was not much coming from Hiroki besides Au and dragon.
As Lian flew into the air, Hiroki giggled loudly, pointing his finger straight ahead. After flying a few minutes Hiroki pointed to the left so Lian went that way. After a while they came to a remote cave.
Lian landed in front of the entrance of a cave and gently places Hiroki on the grass. Hiroki quickly crawled to the cave, but before he could enter the cave he was stopped by Lian.
"Too much curiosity does no one good young prince"
Hiroki sat down and looked at Lian with a confused look. Clearly, he didn't understand what Lian was saying.
Before Lian could answer, a dragon head appeared at the entrance of the cave.
"It's been a while, my old friend. Why does the mighty dragon of the king pays such an unworthy dragon a visit"
Lian looked up to see a brown dragon with pitch-black eyes. It was clear that the dragon was in bad shape. Her eyes were sad and looked lifeless. The dragon was thin and weak.
"It is indeed a long time old friend. Obviously you have seen better days, but you are not and will never be unworthy"
The dragon laughed and then coughed
"What brings you here, and who is that child? If I didn't know better I would think it was the firstborn princess"
They both looked at Hiroki who looked from Lian to the other dragon and then back again. Before Lian could answer, they both heard Hiroki's voice
'Au'
Hiroki crawled to the dragon and sat down on the side of the dragon and pointed to the heart of the dragon
'Au'
The dragon smiled bitterly
"Yes my heart does indeed hurt. My master traveled to the afterlife a month ago and despite I tried to not disregard her death my mind is weak and I want nothing more than to follow her "
It was not uncommon that when a dragon master died, the dragons followed their masters. After all, dragon and master were closely connected.
It was a big blow to both when one died. When the dragon or master was mentally weak, they followed each other in quick succession.
"The queen did her best, every day she visited me and tried to feed or comfort me. But I have grown tired. "
Lian laid down in front of her and looked sad.
"We of the old generation consider it an honor to follow our master to the afterlife, rather than to remain aimless. Although this is also a place of thought, it is not ours. Not the one we formed with our masters. Not the one we grew up in "
Hiroki, who didn't understand what was going on, tried to cheer up the dragon by rubbing her scales with his cheek and caressing the dragon with his little hands.
"Mmm that's right, the only reason I am reluctant to go is that I don't want go without a change to see my daughter. Just like my mistress wasn't able to see hers"