"Mikayla?" the young man asked, looking confused, at least at first. But then a look of recognition started to cross his face.? "I... I know that name," he said, absently brushing his brown locks to the side.? "The girl.? The girl from the village.? The new one.? That's what she called herself.? Mikayla.? You... you're her?"?
Taking a step closer, he reached up to touch her shoulder, to get her to turn to face him once again.? But as he did so, his hand began to change before his eyes, the skin growing rough and scaly, the fingers becoming talons.? He felt his whole body begin to change, growing larger, deforming into something distinctly not human.
"No!" he cried out, his voice a rapidly deepening cry of fear and anguish.? "I was human again!? Human!? Nooooo..."? He faded. He could feel himself fading as the reversion to dragon completed.? He looked to the girl in desperation, and then...
He was back in his chamber, stretched out on his marble dais, waking as if from a dream, once again the monster he'd become.? He roared in frustration, shaking the keep's massive stone walls as he stormed about the room on all fours, smashing any furniture that he came across. "Why?? I was human!? Why? Why? Why?"
?- Mikayla -
When he spoke as though he knew her, she suddenly became thoughtful. ¡°They told you about me? How odd. Angus didn¡¯t mention you. Did you only just arrive?¡± She asked. Then suddenly he gripped her shoulder so painfully. ¡°Sir...you are hurting me.¡±
It was the Painful wail of his ¡°no¡± that made her turn to him.?Mikayla gasped. ¡°You are...¡± she watched confused as he faded. His body twisting shifting.?
She woke up sitting straight up in her bed. Blinking back her confusion. Why would she dream that? It felt so real...
The roar shocked her...worried her.?before Mikayla could stop herself, she was up and running toward his chamber, rushing up the tower stairs the hurting inside ¡°are you okay?¡±
