Communication At Last

Meanwhile Hilda does her best to answer Nightfall's question (though not yet knowing that Nightfall is now the wood elf's name). "Not surprisingly, the dragoness did not feel too kindly towards you, you having been a dragonslayer I understand. She told us that if we did not take you off her hands then she would reduce you to an empty-headed nymph and send you off to some distant forest glade. We didn't think that you deserved that fate. So Gilda and I have become your guardians, if you like. But you don't have to stay with us if you'd rather not. As to why we're at this spot rather than elsewhere, it happens to be where we were when the dragoness brought us to her. I suppose she thought that it was as good a spot as any to return us to."

Hilda pauses a moment, then goes on: "I was wondering how much you can remember of your former life? You know that you used to be human?"

1. "The main things I remember are my mate and cubs..."

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