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try and do something, maybe help her escape.  Something warm
touched his hand; Alekra had placed her hand over his.  He looked up at her,
returning her smile, then he pointed at the blanket and told her the human word
for it.  She laughed and started to point at other objects, testing him though
he never made a mistake.  As they played Ramaeka vowed to himself that he would
figure something out.
     
    Five days
later and his lucky break came.  He was relaying a message from one of the
watch points to his father’s personal cave.  However his father was already
with another dragon, the door had also been kindly left slightly open so that
he could hear everything said.
    “We need to
keep this completely secret, do you understand that?”  Came his father’s harsh
growl.
    It’s not
really easy to keep something secret when you’re having a secret meeting with
the door slightly open, Ramaeka thought to himself.
    “Yes I
understand that sir, but we needed the spell if we want to overcome the
language barrier.”
    “But from
Isahn of all dragons, he’ll definitely become suspicious,” his father growled
in frustration.
    His unseen
companion sighed.
    “Unfortunately
he is the only one with the book containing the spell.  He has the largest
library in Amaria.  It was a chance we needed to take.”
    Ramaeka
listened even more intently, a spell to help them talk to humans! From Isahn’s
personal library too, he needed to get his claws on that spell.
    “Alright,” his
father replied.  “There are courses we can take if he wishes to investigate the
matter further.”
    “Absolutely,”
was his companions calm reply.  “My source will deliver the spell to us in two
days.  Once we talk to the human we can figure out the best way to set up the
breeding process.”
    Ramaeka
wrinkled his nose in disgust.  Ew, breeding he thought.
    “Aye, and once
we have everything we can begin capturing more, no dragon will ever be able to
put my mountain under siege,” his father growled.  “Not when we have a reliable
source of meat safe inside the fortress.  And humans are so much easier to keep
than other animals.” 
    He laughed
sinisterly.  Ramaeka backed away in horror.  He vaguely heard his father and
his companion continue talking but his mind was working in horror.  That was
why they wanted Alekra alive; they were going to farm humans.  The sound of the
two dragons saying their goodbyes brought his attention back to the moment.  He
quickly knocked on the door.
    “Enter.”
    Walking in he
tried desperately not to let any of his thoughts show on his face.
    “Message from
watch point five, Sir,” he intoned.
    “What is it?”
his father asked impatiently, waving the other dragon, a tall lean male, out of
the room.
    “A campfire
was spotted several leagues away, Sir.  A patrol has been sent to investigate
then report back to you, Sir.”
    “Alright,” his
father nodded to the door.
    Relieved
Ramaeka rushed out, heading to Alekra’s cave.
    He flopped
against the wall in front of the cell, half heartedly returning Alekra’s
smile.  His mind and stomach churned, he couldn’t eat another human again, not
after meeting Alekra.  They won’t be killing her for a long time though, he
pointed out to himself reasonably, not if they want to breed them.
    “Ramaeka
okay?” came her soft voice.  He looked up at her worried face and smiled, she
was safe for now at least.
    “Okay, Alekra.”
    As she grinned
at him, he remembered the other important part of the conversation he had
heard.  The spell.  With that, he and Alekra could have proper conversations
and figure out what to do.  He would find a way to get it, no matter what.
     
    Ramaeka kept
an eye and an ear out the next day for any information on when the dragon would
be arriving.  However no one seemed aware of what was happening.  When he tried
to follow his father, Ramanae had immediately spotted him and given him a
severe clip around the head that