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It was such a ridiculous thing. Great big wings tucked at his side as they always were. Just as they always would be. A grounded dragon. There had never been anyone to teach him how to fly when he was living in Cairo. And no where for a dragon, as big as he was, to hide. So it had just been that tiny, helpless, human form he had for most of 28 years. No real opportunities to stretch his wings. No where he could go to be himself.

He was a legend who had never fulfilled his destiny. He had never even made his grand entrance. Wadjet's Dragon. The great dragon of Egypt.

Nothing but a giant lizard with useless wings and no fire.

How was he supposed to darken the sands with his shadow, if he could never get up to the sun? And how would he turn the desert to glass with no heat in his lungs?

Here in this tiny box, things were different. There were great, tall forests of trees he could hide in. Mountain caves for him to explore. And the harsh, beating sun of the desert never burned his fleshy skin. He changed in a clearing in the forest, and hesitantly, bracing his legs on the soft, leaf-covered ground, he stretched his large, powerful, useless wings.

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Magic is a tricky thing. Trusting humans with it, however? That was a far more dangerous monster to toy with. Zaid's magic was limited by his age. But the ability to change from one form to another was a simple one. When he changed, it was not a flash of smoke or a computer generated shrinking of limbs until he resembled a human once more. It was a harsh gust of hot wind that stung the eyes and forced them to close.

And where Zaid had been standing, between the impressions the large, taloned feet had left, was a rather unthreatening man.

"Don't think just because I am smaller, I'm any weaker."

He was, but that was besides the point. The point was he could talk to Amery now, without craning his neck. Or worrying he might knock the man down with his wings or a heavy breath.

Well, that was certainly something, and Amery raised a hand to shield his face from the wind. All that had to have been said was magic and he would have understood why trust had been brought up, he really would have. There was so much magic at home, not just in Volstov, but everywhere, and it was what powered the girls. What had killed him.

This though, was a different kind of thing. Different in that it was completely unexpected. Just like Amery had never seen a real dragon before, he had never seen one turn into a man. At least this time he managed not to stare. Not for very long, anyway.

"I never would have thought that. I had no idea dragons were capable of such a thing."

"They aren't... Weren't."

It was just him. Well. And the other surviving dragons. But he had no idea they existed, and so, assumed it was only himself.

"This was a gift that was given to me." He hesitated a moment, rubbing the back of his neck.

"To protect me."

"Ah. I see." Then that explained how he had managed to be the last remaining dragon, didn't it.

"It's quite an impressive gift." He knew there were magicians capable of a lot of things in Volstov, but he didn't think any of them would be capable of something such as this. It made him curious who was capable of it then, where Zaid was from, but he didn't want to pry.

"Yes. It is. I would have been killed long before now without it."

He rubbed at his hand with the other, watching Amery warily. Like one might watch a tiger in a cage with them. He was only a couple feet away now that he had shifted, but he made no move closer or farther.

"I thought it would, likely, be easier for me to teach you with this form, than my own That and people have a tendency to feel more at ease when I am not towering over them.

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What Amery had said was true; he didn't have any plans to hurt Zaid, or anything of the sort. Unless it was self defense, he would never be able to bring himself to harm a dragon of all things.

"Yes, quite. Dragons can be quite intimidating. It also makes more sense now, how you'd be able to teach me."