Every few decades, a dragon would lay an egg. The hatchling that emerged from the egg would be raised by the mother dragon until it was capable of flight.
It was shortly after learning to fly that she met Bone. After leaving the nest and separating from her mother, she didnāt know what was right and what was wrong.
She had nowhere to go, but as a dragon, she flew eagerly through the sky. Dragons flew like that, and when they grew tired or found a comfortable spot, they would build a nest there. They did it instinctively, even if no one told them to. Eye was no exception. She found a comfortable spot and decided to make it her nest. But what was comfortable for a dragon was also comfortable for another. The place where Eye wanted to nest was Boneās territory.
Dragons were territorial creatures. Normally, before entering another dragonās territory, they would detect their scent and avoid it. Eye was still young and didnāt realize this. Thatās why a certain incident occurred. Accidents happened quite frequently to dragons, especially to young ones.
When a dragon entered another dragonās territory, there were two possible outcomes. One was that it would lead to a territorial dispute. They would fight, and the winner would take control of the territory.
The other outcome was that they would become mates. If the dragons were of opposite sexes, they would live together for a while and have offspring. Once they finished breeding, the male would leave the territory.
Only these two things could happen.
However, when Eye entered Boneās territory, neither of these situations occurred.
To her surprise, Bone came to greet the foolish young dragon that had entered her territory. It wasnāt a violent encounter but a gentle conversation. āI have been living here for a long time. Letās get along.ā Ignorant Eye listened to this and responded with a greeting, saying, āYes, I look forward to living with you.ā She didnāt have any other thoughts than that. Or perhaps Bone did nothing upon realizing that Eye wasnāt hostile.
In any case, they lived together for a while. Bone would often come to visit Eye. Sometimes with food, sometimes empty-handed. She would often arrive by flying, but sometimes she came from the ground. The only thing they had in common was that every time Eye came to see Bone, she would tell some kind of story.
It could be a story about a human that Bone liked or the wisdom of dragon lifeā¦ It was what human society would call trivial chatter, but for Eye, it was a treasure trove of knowledge for survival. Eye learned from Bone the common knowledge of dragons that would have taken her several hundred years of self-education to acquire.
Bone not only taught her common sense but many other things as well. She taught her about other creatures, about humans, about mysterious objects scattered throughout the worldā¦ She must have known many things that other dragons didnāt. Bone was a curious dragon.
But Eye only half-listened. Mostly because she wasnāt interested. However, she liked Bone. Whenever she felt like it, she would go play with her or leave space in the nest for her to come whenever she wanted. Although different from her mother and father, it was undoubtedly a feeling one would have for family in the human sense. It would have been like an older sister, a cousin, or an aunt.
One day, Bone died. Easily. Murdered. By a small human.
Her eyes filled with sadness and anger. She wanted to kill as many humans as she could. Especially when she found the person who had killed Bone, she wanted to enjoy torturing them. She had a strong desire to kill that she had never felt since she was born. Thatās how sad Eye was when Bone died. She even reached the point of attacking humans wherever she found them. It may have seemed like revengeā¦ but in the end, it was probably just a distraction.
Soon, she grew tired of it. Itās not like Bone would come back when she killed humans. First of all, most humans seemed to know nothing about Bone, and it was also annoying that they persistently retaliated against her.
However, her interest hadnāt died.
Yes, she was interested. Not in humans as a whole, but in the human who had killed Bone. She wasnāt actively searching for them, nor did she believe she would find them.
But today, she had found him. And when she did, he proudly told her the story of how he had killed Bone.
Eye couldnāt imagine how she would feel upon hearing that story.