Sad, very sad.
That was his impression when he looked at the people
on the Central Planet of the @lliance.
It was his first visit tot he Capital since the war ended, due to political
reasons his regular visits to the @ Capital had been cancelled for some time.
In respect to the mourners he did not enter the grand square where the Guildhalls were, that was for the @ people only.
The ßrotherhood, his own alliance, had decided to
stay neutral in this conflict, for traders it was never good to take sides in
a war, whatever you choose, you get hit by the others,
His ßrothers had their own wars to be busy with.
He preferred to keep his own opinion to himself.
He looked down on the square and saw a fragile looking
white-winged figure leave the Great Hall, did he imagine it or did she look
even smaller as before?
No, Jana was just not walking so upright as she used to in the old times.
When he met her the first time, together with his wife Aeon, she was such a
proud and strong woman, now she looked like a heavy load was on her shoulders.
The load of millions, floating in space, frying in the ovens or working in the
dark mines of Mordor.
Or, if they were lucky, dead.
Shivered when he imagined that these scary creatures were now guarding those
undead souls, somewhere on a dark planet, similar to the one he came from
himself, but then owned by Morgoth instead of Mongo, God of the Horde.
Next to him he heard a scream and a sound of a big
animal ripping its claws through cloth and flesh, accompanied with terrified
screams..
“Aeon! Stop that!” “We don’t have the time to play around with the
locals” he whispered angrily to the good looking Tiger Striped Dragon next
to him, the Reptile looked irritated at him, opened the mouth and dropped the
pickpocket on the ground.
While the little thief picked up his arm and ran away,
the Dragon changed back to a pretty woman with, for the spectators with
familiarity to old Earth races, South East Asian looks, “but he tried to
steal my wallet” was her answer.
-“Can be, but you have to control yourself a bit more, you know how people
react when you start eating them for every little thing”,
“Next time just call a policeman and he will deal with him”.
-“He will eat him? That is not fair!”
-“NO! DEAL with him, not
EAT him! You can’t just eat people you don’t like, well, at least not as
long as we are here”.
-“So when we are back home I can?”
-“Only bad people, and you have to leave the servants alone, they are hard
to get since you ate the housekeeper”.
-“She should not have dropped my coffee on the floor”
-“Even clones can make mistakes you know”
-“Yeah, Yeah, boring, they also scream very loud”.
-“Next time, start with the head, if you take off the head first they wont
scream”
-“Oh, so that was it! I knew there was something to make them stop”
It took him sometimes 10 minutes to maneuver himself with the pilots seat into
the hall, and another 30 to fix the chair back on its place.
Unlike his wife, nature did not provide him with a
smooth brown/black striped body but with a green, almost dull pattern and some
red accents on the spikes along his back, especially those spikes were bad for
the furniture in a spaceship.
This was the main reason why he almost never lost control over his emotions.
-“Zoo, reptile house, my mother-in-law is here, Maniac wanted to feed her
chicken”
-“Get your butt and Maniac over here, plenty of time for that later, she has
been there since you got married, and she can’t leave until we convinced the
guards she is family.”
“Besides, I think she attracts too many tourists to let her go, not every
Zoo in the universe has a 30 foot fire-spitting dragon”, “First we have to
go to Jana to make her talk to us again, and please try to look as human as
possible, especially those red flaming eyes you got, cover them a bit will
you?
-“What happened to the times that we could freely
walk on the street while people were throwing firecrackers to celebrate our
festivals?”
-“I think we were pushed on the street then, sometimes they just carried our
heads and skin around on sticks in old Earth China towns, and they were
throwing firecrackers to scare us away, but if you want to see it another way,
that is up to you”
-“This saint George guy made us look bad to the community, after he killed
uncle Joe nobody ever dared to show his real face on Earth again”.
-*Grins*“ Yeah, they still think he killed the last of us!” “Lets keep
it that way, we got trouble enough without those wannabe dragon slayers
hunting us”.
“Heh, good they do not know how many of us still are between them…”
“But we are not here to talk about the good old times”
-“Did you really have to take Aeon along? She likes
to play with fire a bit too much in my opinion”, “Her short fused temper
is also not very helpful, don’t want her to fry Jana”.
-“Well, She and Jana were friends, she is my wife, and we went here on our
honeymoon, could not leave her at home, besides, she might eat the servants
again if I am not there to keep her under control”.
-“hmm, right, How did you solve the problem with the servants when she ate
the Housekeeper?”
-“Not, we sent them on a holiday to Moria, the last thing I heard from them
was that they were going to the local Orc restaurant for dinner.”
-“Have been there once, they don’t serve Orc anymore there, pity, they
taste ok, after you burn off the skin they are quite digestible, I heard they
use them to clean up the mines now”
-“Yuk, you never know what they have to eat there, I do not think I will
ever go and have one anymore.”
-“What did your servants eat there then?”
-*Laughing* “Who said they were going to eat there?”