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The Taliban had invaded the cave and regrouped using the cave network.

There were about thirty of them and armed with weapons of war.

Mom waved at me not to move. She knew they were going to run into us. It was for sure.

"Look at Mom and her mystical powers. They have a white bearded chief.

Don't touch me, okay?

Just look around me. I'll show you how, even if you're not here, I know everything!"

Mom closed her eyes and I felt like a veil stroking it and then passing through me and then I saw a ghostly form of Mom heading through rocks and earth towards the old man.

He collapsed for a moment and then stood up looking in my direction, winked at me and then said: "I feel like there are mines here. The Americans must have trapped the tunnels.

Let's go that way."

Then

Brattata, ratata, several machine gun shots and there was total silence.

My mother opened her eyes again. There, they're all dead... I scanned their minds and they were full of hatred in the name of God...

What a terrifying power...

"Rudia, tells me, come on, it's interesting and don't touch anything, especially if it's harmless."

Me: "Why did you kill them?"

-"Rudia, you're Belgian, right? They are your enemies. With weapons like that, they wouldn't go looking for food...

Have a good look

Here it's called an Ak47, a Kalashnikov, an assault rifle that can also shoot down planes and you!

If your scales resist, the space between them is not protected and worse, at a short distance, the ammunition can lift the scales and slip under the skin and seriously injure you.

Here, a sword. Nothing dangerous, except the eyes or your cloaca. And the holes in your ears, I forgot.

Here, be careful, it's a fragmentation grenade.

It's full of little knives that explode and make holes everywhere. They remove the pin and when they release the spoon, it explodes immediately afterwards.

Some people put wires in and make mines of them. They also add explosives that can tear you apart. Here, beware, it's the most dangerous weapon for us. An anti-tank piercing ammunition.

The Point creates an arrow of fire that melts the scale and injects the explosive into the wound.

It can tear off our heads, tails and dismember us. The injuries are always critical and often lead to death by bleeding.

The average threshold for protection is a magic shield. I have to teach you again this spell and the basis of magic..."

"Mom!!, you know a lot of things..."

-"Yes, but if you can go to school, go for it! But don't forget, you're no longer human. You are my child and you are a dragon.

There are advantages, but we are in a world of men that is our worst enemy in all our lives.

Keep grenades to protect you, you never know. Rifles, I doubt you know how to use them."

"Can I try it, Mom?"

"You should never point the gun at yourself or someone you love or the eggs.

This is the safety catch and the trigger. You aim by aligning the pointed end with the viewfinder. You must correct the height because the balls fall back with the distance and the knob the set to adjust the height.

Now you're not shooting at me. And it's gusty."

Rudia : "Here it's interesting, he has mounted a scope of approaches and we can see further. It's a sniper rifle. More interesting than bursts, it allows you to aim accurately and shoot 10 times further.

Try it because when your fingers are too big, you won't be able to hold this toy.

In your defense, although now, if a bear attacked you, you could kill it..."

- Rudia : "But I have some bad news for you. When we get there, the beak is not finished. I must give you the inner fire. Basically I have to inject you with dragon oil so that your organ synthesizes the right molecule You can fly, we'll say. but you still have to learn flying techniques, aerial combat, fighting a helicopter and an aircraft. you still have to learn the acceleration spell and feather fall to avoid crashing in a collision."

Me: "I'm sorry, Mom, I thought I knew everything... I actually don't know, nothing..."

"Look, honey, I'm not asking you to love me, I screwed up and I did the irreparable, but as a mother, I have to pass on my knowledge to you from mother to daughter.

You're going to join the humans and I'll have to take care of your brothers."

"I'll stay in the barn with you."

Rudia stroked me,

"my little Ruby...Think...How will I deal with Celine? I killed her sister.... That's impossible....

She'll want revenge and I'll protect my family..."

"Oh," I said, a little disappointed.

Rudia : " But I won't be far....We'll hunt together with your brothers and go swimming and fishing."

I took the dragunov and found it perfect and at my size, I took the cartridge belts and a garland of grenades.

I felt stronger, invincible now.

We rested a little and went to drink from a nearby spring and picked some fruit.

Mother had an irresistible desire for human flesh and the smell of blood made me react in the same way as Mom did...

Quickly, I ate fruit to make the desire go away. We searched their bags and they had rations that were enough for me... but not Mom...

"Mom, I know what you want to do...... Not in my presence anymore, okay? Relax at the source, I don't want to feel human blood and then don't get up again, okay?"

On these comments she left a small III of sadness. Having to leave such beautiful pieces to rot in the sun...

Me: "Shit, Mom, are you going to teach my brothers to love human blood or what? Do you want them to kill us or lock us up for life?"??

She really wanted a little something...

Me: "MOTHER! Let their families bury them! Widows and children will weep for them like me.

I want sheep or a tagine... what, you don't want a good piece of goat,?

Or boar, there's plenty of them here!. They don't eat them, so they swarm!

mmm, a nice juicy boar with cheese on top cooked rare....

Rudia: "ARRGH!!! you won!"

We flew off in search of a plump boar!

Then mother sat down and closed her eyes. After a few minutes, she reopened them: "No problem, you can hunt in the valley.

You come with me, I'll teach you how to hunt! But you're the one who'll finish the boar. It's a deal!

I said, "What kind of deal?"

"You hunt and kill your prey and I stop eating human..."

Grrr. You're a tough businessman.

Top there, I gave her a check! Then a Dab.

We flew away and flew over the valley.

Then I saw honey cakes hanging from the rocks

Mom, can I? I want to...

I flew over the combs of the giant hive and my flapping wings made the bees flee

I detached the combs and the bees didn't do anything to me...

But on the other hand, the nectar was divine.

Rudia: "Leave some if you want there to be more honey when we come back here."

I said, "Do you want to come back here?"

Rudia: "I'm older than you think! I've lived for centuries.!

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Meanwhile, as the visa ended and to avoid suspicion, Luc and Celine, delighted, were about to return and were welcomed by the Doctor, a local celebrity.

He said he was kidnapped by mountain bandits for ransom and managed to escape...

he told of the horror he experienced and the horrors inflicted on Emily. He also decided to return to France because of the border commander. If he came back empty-handed, he would make accusations against the couple or the doctor for serious interference with their work.