Chapter 77: Uh Oh x2 - Parenting Failure
In the clear field that used to house a garden, Demond groaned as she sat on the dried ground, her back leaning into the soft ’pillows’ as she groaned out another puff of smoke, the witch’s tipping up just enough for her to gaze at the foggy sky, that was now covered by a scaled barrier with the honoured <Dragon Language>. "Say, Adrei?"
"Hm?"
"Now that I think about it," Demond frowned as she glanced over her shoulder, her husband’s eyes darting away as if expecting what her wife’s question. "You never, ever told me how Alice did in the war. I only read from the letter that she one-shot the demon king, but...don’t tell me there’s something you’re hiding there?"
Adrei’s tail twitched, the tail that used to be raised high to tease her wife’s waist or cheek now hung low like a puppy unable to lie, her eyes still away. "She did well."
"...she did well?"
"She did well." Adrei’s claws dug into the earth, the same way they had when Alice ’accidentally’ erased a mountain range, then proceeded to casually drop some roughly made glaciers as an apology.
"Then why Adil run to evacuate the town like a walking embodiment of a nuke coming to Rouen?" The witch’s frown curled into a scowl.
Adrei chuckled, the slightly uneven rhythm...nervousness? Adrei, the Dragon Queen who slaughtered her kins in a beat, the Honourless Peacekeeper who willed her pride out for a handshake with humanity, now nervous? How ridiculous is Alice’s exploit that had her scared like that?
"Alice is...well, a resonable person, most of the time." Adrei sighed, her pupils dilating like the first time Alice had frostbited her throat at the negotiation table. "Distrustful of us at first, eventually our cooperation to annihilate the demons together brought humanity and Dragons together."