Sweet Dreams…

The other day my friend Iop and our company decided to visit the only one dragon lair left in the World of Twelve. The entrance to the lair can be found in one of the first rooms of the Dragons Sanctuary and is protected by relatives of dragons – dragosses. The lair itself is a chain of caves filled with various dragons-like species. The last room and the current “dragon” were our goal.

Crocabulia, that’s the name of the chief there, technically isn’t a dragon, but, probably, one of the closest relatives. And he guards one of the draggon eggs – the red one. Well, there is a rumour it’s not a real dragon egg, but still it’s a powerful and extremely rare artifact. Some people even suggested it didn’t exist in our realm.
We didn’t expect to find a dragon egg, we just wanted to see Crocabulia and, probably, ask it to give us some broken horns of his ancestors. However, I don’t understand why enu would want it, it’s cheap and not needed for any of her planned equips. She told us it would be a good memory about the visit… Old people are full of whims.
As usual the first caves-rooms were passed fast and easily. Their inhabitants have no chance against our company and they prefer to surrender without unnecessary troubles. And when we were half-way to our goal it happened.
Our old lady decided she wanted to sleep. Cra and I tried to talk some common sense into her, but we failed as she fall asleep the next second we started to talk. We had nothing else to do but to set up a camp. We were lucky our friend was a nice and understandable person. He didn’t argue and agreed to wait.
The night was passing very slow. I couldn’t sleep, I was afraid of the cave monsters attacking us absolutely helpless. And even if I wasn’t afraid I hardly could close my eyes. Enu was snoring, if the thunder-like excessively loud sound produced by her throat could be qualified as a snore.
I wasn’t the only one who was impressed with the sound. Dragosses, living there, sat straight on the other side of the room and didn’t move. Even their eyes stopped to blink. There was something in that sound that prevented them from any action whatsoever. No surprise enu was so confident and fall asleep without taking any precautions…