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I took up cooking with great enthusiasm! Just getting rid of this very «excitement» in the presence of the dragon was absolutely necessary! Where is it seen that Alixia… Wilt fell into a stupor in front of a handsome dragon?

I do remember seeing them once though. Memories were vague, from childhood. My father and I were visiting the royal palace at the time, and a delegation of dragons passed by. As I remember now: tall, stately, in expensive clothes of a bizarre cut. One was dark-haired, the second was red, and the third… I think with gray strands. But not old. Or is it still old? Who will disassemble these dragons! Yes, that was fifteen years ago.

So, then my father picked me up in his arms so that I would not get under my feet, and I take and drop the doll – beautiful, porcelain. It crashed, and the ringing was all over the corridor. The dragons stopped. One of them glanced at me. He approached and ran his hands over the doll – the fragments gathered together.

The dragon rose to its feet and returned the doll to me. Silently. Not saying a word. Father tried to thank him, but he promptly left with the delegation…