And you shall know why they love..

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 5370

The dragonesses, still in human form, heave and cry, hearts aching. Gentle hands of lovers touch them, and soulmates reach out and enwrap souls. Words, soft and gentle, whisper into ears, and are only intelligible to the intended targets...women who have seen years, experienced much.

Soulmates reach out, and work their gentle magic upon breaking hearts.

Malachi Dronocis, Regent of Ethiopia, feels the love of her beloved and feels like the world perhaps isn't ending. She also feels the care and...as cliched as it sounds...love of her subjects, and nods. She will grieve later, when there is time enough. Her duty to her people, human and dragon, is calling.

Can she do anything but accept? In the face of those who care for her so?!

Of course she can't.

Malachi D'Honaire recovers a tad slower, but still amazingly quickly.

She also feels the magic of her one true love. The former human...the former Dragon Slayer...the one who had seen her soul and found her lovely. Dragon Fred loved her, and wanted her to know that he was there for her to support and love her.

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Slowly, she turned and through her mystical connections to her Circle (not a Dragon Circle, true, for many of the people who made it up weren't dragons)..felt the care and concern washing out from them. Care and concern for a friend and the leader of the Circle.

No, this new Circle was not like her old one, but it was just as good all the same!

She saw her duty. She saw what honor demanded, and rose to the task.

She saw the love and care from her love and her friends (who were nearly like brothers and sisters to her).

Could she turn away from them in this time of need? Of course not!

Dragon Fred and Sigin Dronocis beam in pride in the treasure they have found in their woman in their strength. And another period! They smile, seeing into the inner recesses of their soulmate's spirit, and hear them both say in unconscious duet.

"Sato...has made it possible to correct the last of the wrongs," they say. "Grief must wait. There are some lost relatives to rescue..and a monster called Zerm to slay!"

"Are you going to be...alright?" Duke Dredrick asks, wishing that there was a better way to express his worry than those lame words. He'd witnessed the dragoness change swiftly from grief, to calm determination, and was...stunned.

He was worried that, perhaps like a human woman (heck like ANY human) she might break down again, emotionally.

"For now, until the crisis is passed, yes." Malachi D'Honaire says, steel in her voice.

"I will grieve later, when it's safe," the Regent proclaims, tough as Alliance nails. "As of right now, my people...the entire world needs the aid I can provide.

  1. "But what has been done in the past means I must stay behind with one Crystallic," the Regent says.

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