Kara and Sigurd had followed the trail of a deer, the girl was in the top of a tree while Sigurd was preparing to drive it away towards her, however at the moment of approaching a small dragon flew away its prey.
"We must warn Praxis," Sigurd said.
"We could, or maybe ..."
"You suggest we go kill him on our own."
"No, no, I would never think of something like that, but it seems that you really want to do it."
"No way, I just do what the boss tells me to."
"What a pity, and I thought you were a real man."
"I'm a real man!" Said the boy angrily.
"A real man would do what he wants because he wants it, not because others order it."
"But if I did it without Praxis knowing then he would be mad at me."
"Is that the reaction of a real man? It's a bit pathetic, you should do things without thinking about what others will say."
"You're right," the boy said before pouncing on her and kissing her.
"What the hell are you doing!?" Kara shouted altered.
"What you have told me, to do things without thinking about what they will say, the truth is that I like you, but if I had told the others they would have laughed at me," he confessed blushing.
"Okay, but I meant to go for the damn dragon," she said wiping her lips with her sleeve.
"Oh! This ... Yes, let's go for him, forget what just happened," the boy said, heading where the dragon went.
"I wish I could," thought the girl following him.
Furleigh and Farah were walking towards the government leader's vacation home, a place he used as a refuge in times of war.
"Furleigh Can I ask you a question?"
"In your case, you should ask me more than one," said the boy, underestimating Farah's intelligence.
"Why are you so affectionate with Kara? Do you like her?"
"No! Don't talk nonsense," he answered surprised. "It's not that I'm affectionate with her, it's just that, she's a nice person."
"I am too, and this is the first time we talked. Don't you like me?"
"It's different, it's not that I like you or not, it's that Kara has something that you don't have," he answered without giving many explanations.
"What is it? Her spirit and determination to slay dragons?"
"No, I would be kinder if she didn't engage in ... Slaying dragons."
"You also dedicate yourself to that, don't you like that she does that because she is a woman?"
"No, I'll give you a hint, it's something that all girls have at first, but as they get older they tend to lose."
Farah thought for a while what it was supposed to be.
"Beauty," replied the girl, "Wait. Don't you think I am pretty?"
"It's not the beauty, well, it doesn't matter."
"Come on, tell me why you like Kara so much."
"Okay, but I warn you, you will not like the answer."
"I'm ready."
"Everything happened four years ago, I was twelve years old and had been training with the Knights of the sun for nine years, despite dedicating myself to hunting dragons, I had a very happy life, since when I returned home my little sister always came running to hug me, She was four years old," explained beginnig to cry. "Four years old, one day the hunters of the sun sent me to hunt a dragon of calm in the forest near our house, it was night ... and I ... did not see her ... I thought she was the dragon" Concluded breaking to cry.
"What happened?" She asked worried.
"My little sister had followed me from home ... I shot her with the bow and hit her in the heart ... She didn't ... She didn't survive, she couldn't even have been a dragon ... Before I shot her, she said "What are you doing big brother?" And I ... I killed her; Kara reminds me of her."
"It's terrible, I'm sorry I asked."
"It's not your fault," said wiping the tears. "It's mine."
For the rest of the way both groups were silent.