Flaris stared at General Jin Teng across the table. Last night after repeatedly questioning this man, she had finally realized that he was a thick-headed baboon who did not know how to answer straight. She was sure that if he was a student in Miss Myrtle's class, she would have given him a grade even worse than F minus.
The only thing the guy talked about was history of Adrian and his Prince Ivruss who was apparently a gem of a man.
She imagined him to be a pot bellied uncle with balding head who loved to hear praises from others. And Genral Jin Teng must be the head of such boot lickers. Too bad his good looks were wasted over his personality.
Finally, she had banished him from her room and lay thinking over the information and summarizing the finer points that she had understood. First, Adrian was very much like Earth but with magical powers and Dragon people. Second, it had all the facilities available on Earth. Third, the variety of food available here was of much higher quality than Earth. This she had learnt from how General Jin Teng had described their rotative farming.
All this meant that even if she could not go back to Earth where she had to hide her own power, she could enroll into some Academy here and start her own Cafe. Her ultimate goal was to feed people after all. And so she had waited until morning to prepare a feast for the General once he procured the incidents and wow him with her cooking skills as she tried to find out the secrets of this place that could help her.
But after slogging away in the state of art kitchen, he had dropped this bomb on her when she invited him to eat.
Holding the folk and the spoon in her hand as if they were her weapons she asked him again,"What do you mean that people here rarely eat?"
Why do I have to answer these dangerous questions, Jin Teng wondered.. Prince? Where are you?
"Uhh. Miss Flaris the thing is, as children we eat a lot of food and are even encouraged to try out different foods. But as we age, our taste buds slowly get muted and the emotions are also suppressed naturally.. somewhat like Earth children hitting puberty and their body changing? Us dragons don't need much food for survival but when our puberty hits, eating food is like chewing sawdust to us.. ."
"Really? Then why did you drone on about your agriculture and what not? If you guys are not eating what are you growing crops for?"
"For mated couples and children."
Jin Teng answered automatically but the he realized that he had backed himself into a corner as she pounced on that piece of information,"Mated couples?"
"So you guys like mate couples before puberty? and that is why they eat?" Flaris asked in horror, imagining little dragon kids getting married.
Jin Teng shook his head before opening his mouth and then closing it again,"Miss Flaris!/Human children hit puberty around 10 to 11 years of age while Dragon kind kids hit puberty about 700 to 1000 years of age.."
Flaris: "..."
700 to 1000 years was puberty? But this guy looked in his early twenties..And had golden hair.. while Wu Long even had white hair and looked in his late twenties. She was stuck with old men! And deceptive old men at that!
Flaris pointed to the table of food and then to General,"You are not eating! Thateans you have already hit.. hit puberty. How old are you General?"
"I am seven thousand three hundred and eight days old."
"Seven..." Flaris could not even imagine this.. She shook her head and tried to think if Earth even existed at that time...or the human race? If only she had paid attention on history class.
But soon she brought herself back to the present. So all the food that she had prepared was going to go waste?
Just then, the door opened and she had another glimpse of the man who had brought her here last night. Her heart beat fastened a little at his sight but then she remembered that he could be an old man.
She wanted to run to him and ask him about the investigation. After all, if she wanted to go back and she would have to if people here did not eat, she needed to know how she landed here.
But before she could say anything, Wu Long smiled at her and spotted the table that was laid out in front of her. Walking forward, he handed his coat to Jin Teng naturally and picked up a tiny looking thing from the table. It had a brown base and there was a colourful deciration on it.. Curious he popped it into his mouth and said,"This is really sweet. I like it. What is this dish called?"
Flaris:".."
General Jin Teng: "o"