‘Tell me more of your story?’ he asked.
‘I was created by K’wala the Chaos bear for a job. I was theproduct of one of her avatars raping my Newman mother. I was notgiven any chance to experience life. I had no training, no help. Iwas offered the world if I succeeded. I was given a job to explorethe Netherworld. I explored a portion of it and reported my finds.They were pleased and gave me a short break before I was to resumemy exploration. During the break I was captured by Lord Borse andmy death was faked. He bound my spirit into my Radiant body. I wasto replicate and be the mother of a huge army of Radiants thatwould conquer the Nether world. You have seen the army.’
‘Unfortunately for Lord Borse, he was trapped somehow by theforces of the Lady and he never returned to lead his crusade in thenetherworld. I have a strong feeling that you are destined torelease him and then you will be sent into the netherworld tocontinue my job.’ she replied.
‘Lord Borse must have had some way to control you. What wasit?’
‘I don’t know but I felt obliged to help Granite when hemoulded me into my previous form until he was trapped. Now sinceyou remade me again I feel free to choose who I wish to help and itis you.’
‘Aquitain I am not good at fancy conversation or exploiting myfeminine features or giving you rapturous feelings. There has neverbeen a male and a female of our kind until now. I don’t know how toattract you. I don’t even know if we could have children if wetried. We are the first and possibly the last of our kind.’ repliedGlammer.
For onceAquitain didn’t know what to say.
‘Aquitain you are thinking like you were taught to think inyour Newman body in a Newman culture. If we are to survive you mustlearn to think outside of your cultural upbringing. K’wala brokethe maker’s rules when she created me. Since she believed I hadbeen destroyed she was prepared to break the rules again creatingyou. We were both created for the same purpose after we succeededor failed it didn’t matter anymore. They could eliminate us. But inreality there are two of us. We would be crazy not to takeadvantage of this accident of fate.’ she replied.
‘You have a point there!’ he replied thinking that she wasstarting to make some sense in a crazy sort of way. But I don’tthink it’s an accident.’
‘If we’re both half dragons and both Agents of Chaos and thereare no rules for us, then we could indeed really ruin a lot of theplans of the gods. Or perhaps we are a plan of a god. It is noaccident.’
A dozen newideas fought for attention in his mind as he took her hand.
‘Glammer I have been arrogant and foolish. I have grosslyunderestimated and undervalued you. Please accept my sincerestapologies. I need to think much more on what you have told me. Infact, you have just given me the first ray of hope that there mightbe a way for us to survive the mess they have dumped us into. Thankyou.
Glammer smiledand said. “Thank you for believing in me.
Aquitain noddedand smiled back
‘I was looking for pledging gifts. I was hoping that I couldget some things from Llanlorian’s treasury which is now my treasurybut the Mentarin have taken it and it locked in the Warden’s keeptreasury vault.’ he replied.
‘Oh that’s easy.’ she replied and took his hand and momentslater he was inside the Wardens treasure vault back in his smallcrystal body form and she in her large mothra form.
‘Has anyone got any secrets from you?’ he asked quite amazedbut she didn’t reply.
He createdlight in the room and the treasure there would have taken hisbreath away if he could breathe. There were casks of gold andprecious gems; jewellery and magic items of all types; beautifularmour and weapons. He chose a gem studded necklace for Miranda andgem studded tiara for Gizel as there was already a crown for theQueen of Moonmist. He also took a ring of teleport and a ring ofinvisibility for Gizel considering that as she couldn’t fight herbest chance to survive was hide.
Then he spiedwhat appeared to be a small golden cottage complete with a row offlowers around the edge. ‘I haven’t seen one of these foryears’.
‘It’s a pocket dimension hide away. It’s like Llalorax’sdimension bottle. It’s for hiding in when you don’t want anyone tofind you.’ He picked it up and gave it to Glammer.
‘If you were involved in trapping Granite and I suspect youwere. Then sooner or later he will be looking for you. In anemergency you could hide in here and I doubt even he could findyou.’
‘Use the activation word on the bottom to get in andout.’
‘Now I have to return to Darkmantle’s hideaway’ and heteleported away.
Chapter 21 The BackDoor
‘I want you to cast apermanent glamour on Tigerlilly like those the women wear, one thatshe can use to change her appearance.’ said Aquitain.
‘Rat Catcher will guard her when she sleeps. I have alsoinstructed it to teach her hide and seek so that she will be alittle less vulnerable when we are not around.’
‘What a good idea.’ replied Miranda. ‘It’s time I had a littletime with our daughter. I will teach her the principles of hidingin the jungle.
Darkmantle hadPrendergrass cast the glamour on Tigerlilly then Miranda,Tigerlilly and the cat left the stronghold for a walk.
Miranda feltguilty as she had not spent much time with Tigerlilly. She washaving difficulty mentally adjusting to the fact that she had adaughter.
She talkednon-stop with the little girl explaining that mummy and daddy werevery busy at the moment as there were bad people that wanted tohurt everybody. Mummy and daddy were going to try and stop them.They might also try to hurt Tigerlilly so she needed to play a gamecalled hiding.
Granddad Wyvernhad the wizard put a magical effect on Tigerlilly called a glamourthat would allow her to disguise herself so the bad people wouldn’tfind her. What Tigerlilly
