The journey took me two days and was pretty uneventful just
water and surf till the third day I came across a rock cave on
the shore where the rumors told of the person I needed to find
was. A flashy sign hung above the rock saying potions that will
change your life for a reasonable price. I entered seeing rock
shelves with potions and papers and ingredients of all kinds
from as big as eternal life to as small as a days love potion and
in between the rows of shelves a desk of rock sat. I walked up
and rung the metal bell on the desk a few stray papers on the
desk told me that whoever was here wanted to study dragon
language but also be an elf of some kind which confused me.
But I couldn't help read the dragon's language so close to ours
but yet not so much in spelling we had to study any language to
woo our pray human and dragon was the easiest for us because
of the similarities in speech but in writing nothing alike.
Having the time to learn even written language I could speak
to anyone without words, smiling as I had that bragging right
as I hit the bell again and a voice behind me said in impatience
and annoyance "I'm coming, I'm coming." As I peer behind me
waiting to see the person a voice said in front of me, "So you
think you can woo without words eh?" I jumped and blushed
and spoke nervously to an old man in front of me. "If I wanted
yes but I want to find love not woo a person for a short time,
and I don't want a human mate only to have them die before
me and to be lonely again, I want someone I can love forever and will love me the same." He laughed and smiled. "Such a tall
order little one but then again you are a special girl aren't you,
a lamia who genuinely craves love instead of lust I'll see what I
can do to give you your wish, although you may not like it in
the end, or maybe it'll be perfect and work perfectly" He began
to read various papers around the room discarding each he
picked up and finally finding one to his satisfaction brought it
to the desk. "I somehow knew today required this paper and should have kept it in front." The papers appeared to be very
old not only slowly being age eaten but the language was so old
it took me a bit to recognize the original dragon dragon
symbols, not words but symbols. Something I've only heard of
dragon of high standing knowing anymore, well then again they
were old and as pure as a dragon could get and there children
usually are like them. Pure and high standing, but primarily
female, the only time a male was aloud seemed to be when one
of the dragons wanted to call it's life and end and needed a
male lineage to win and keep his land so he can rest in peace,
or when he needed extra females so needed a younger flashier
male to draw a younger more able to produce airs further from
his line for further mating, and as soon as he had enough to
insure his wants he'd kill or drive off the male or so that's what
the paper said. I wasn't sure of that the dragons rarely likes
any competition that's why the lamias who only had female
children was chosen to make future mates for the dragons they
like as little male competition as possible if none at all. So why
pick that paper was this man thinking of turning her into one of
them beasts where they the only ones able to give her what she
wanted. I shudder as i remember the fights my people had with
the dragons, considering Lamias where one of the few
creatures able to harm a dragon in the same way they could a
lamia it's good they rarely shared the same space or neither
would survive the other but this man's suggesting I find one as
a life partner was so far out there but as I thought about it.
Lamias, dragons, succubuses, and incubuses where the only
fully eternal creatures that were hard to kill if not impossible,
and incubuses and Lamias had no effect on each other and
succubuses where just female incubuses, so dragons was as
close as I was getting. I sigh at the realisation but was happy a
creature was out there that could perhaps love me even if it
wasn't going to be easy.