Chapter 1.2

Rubbing his arms and shivering, Vyrie walked past the stewardess.

"You already know I prefer the heat though, Shana."

Chuckling, she turned her bespectacled eyes back to the opening in the wall, to look out into the distance.

Her dark brown, braided hair followed with.

"Haha… yeah, I remember when we first found you, all those years ago, too."

Tapping her fingers on the stone, she continued.

"I don't know how your village survived alone, all that time, I mean it was practically sand for a hundred thousand paces in every direction!"

Watching the Stewardess, Shana, reminisce about memories of long ago, with her eyes closed, he quietly moved past her, into the common room of the house.

Coming into it from the wide, stone doorway, he looked to the upper floor.

The doors to four rooms could be seen above the railing on the second floor.

Slowly scanning around, Vyrie opened his mouth, calling out:

"Oh, Caaaantiiiii!"

As he stood there, waiting for a second, with his hands on his hips, Vyrie was expecting the emergence of his pet.

"Chiiirp… scriiiiit…"

He could hear the fluttering of wings on the second floor.

Vyrie called out a second time for the winged creature.

"Ohhhh Cantiiiiiii!"

Seeing a pair of bright blue wings and the long neck of a scaled reptile fly down from over the second floors railing, Vyrie held out his hand.

Canti made many small screeching noises, as he closed in to perch on Vyrie's forearm.

Struggling to hold him up, Vyrie studied his pet's features.

He had him as long as he could remember, but even now, he was still fascinated with its species.

Glossy, multicolored scales that shifted in color, from blue to green.

A slender and long neck, with soft features like a rounded jaw and short beak.

The short claws on its feet dug into Vyrie, but he paid no attention to it.

"Want to visit the capital, Canti?"