After hearing the details, at least as well as Estua was able to explain them, of how she had been able to mend some of the dragon's wounds, Ernst had an idea. He didn't know if it would work or not, but he had an idea anyway. They built a makeshift litter and Corny pulled the dragon back to the site of the battle with the brumble beasts. George and Ernst drove away the scavengers and went to work on the most intact brumble beast. Estua watched in fascinated horror as Ernst and George sawed away at it with their combat knives. The dragon remained unconscious and she wanted to work on his wounds some more, but Ernst had insisted that she reserve her power for what he had in mind. She was skeptical, but Ernst thought it would work, so when the …show more content…
That's not the word I would have chosen, let's just hope it works.” Longflame woke up famished a couple of hours later and when he saw what they had done he said, “You people are sick, what have you done to me?” George said, “We did the best we could with what we had to work with, you're lucky you're even still alive. Let me introduce you to Estua, the woman..., I mean the female that saved your life.” Longflame looked back at the wing that the brumble beast had nearly destroyed. It was whole again, but it was ugly, somehow the wing of a brumble beast had been fused with his own. “I assume this is your handiwork as well.” Longflame said to Estua. “Yes, but it was Ernst's idea, not mine.” Longflame said, “Well I'm starving, feed me some of that brumble beast and we'll give it a …show more content…
As they walked, Neph made sure to keep himself between the sword maidens and Red, every time Red looked their way Neph snarled at him. Once when Red took too long to avert his eyes Neph charged at him. Gertrude yelled, “NEPH!” Neph stopped his charge, ordinarily he would have tried to look contrite when reprimanded, but he just snarled at Red again. Brock moved up beside Gertrude, “Neph doesn't like Red too much and frankly neither do I. Normally, I'm not one to judge by appearances and gut feelings of dubious worth, but in his case I'll make an exception. I think it best that you and the other sword maidens give him a wide berth.” Akemi's heart sank when Corny intercepted them, she thought something must have happened to Longflame. When the unicorn saw Red, her eyes rolled and she reared back in fear. She turned and ran a short distance before she got control of herself and turned around, but she maintained the distance between her and the snorpian, not allowing him one inch closer. “Wait here while I go to her,” Akemi said. When Akemi reached her she tried to comfort the frightened creature. “It's alright Corny, there's nothing to be frightened