"I mean, love is love, right?" Roya smiled at him, "The Dragons from that kingdom, have semi-humanoid forms as well. Yes, there is a..." Roya blushed, "A size difference. And, some people seem to completely into that you know? And, I think. The Dragon always gave The Princess what she wanted. I was hesitant to acknowledge. She had all these astronomy equipment in her room, math-books, telescopes and lenses, a solarium, lunarium, equipment to read atlases and star constellations."
Roya was thinking, rubbing her chin, "I am sure, that she was told she could not spend her efforts in astronomy. So, when she got kidnapped, she may have asked The Dragon Duke to give her a chance to read and do these things. Saying, she would behave and not cause him trouble. Her intelligence and cooperation, added with her beauty, may have really made him fall for her and his own beauty, uniqueness and the ability to respect her passions. You know how that can be. We fall in love entirely with people who see our flaws and passions, find the beloved and endurable in them. So, I would say, lucky princess and duke found their soul mates."
As she walked though, in the covers of the night, the wind softly chilled her uncovered skin. There was nary a noise, aside some distant calls of wolves, far away and the temperamental hooting of an owl, somewhere near. The ambience, due to her nature of a lygophile, was seriously peaceful. Deep into the belly and bosom of this forest, sheathed and unfurled by night, she found a peaceful state of meditation. Roya breathed in the air, feeling this tranquillity in her she had missed a lot in other places.
There was soft stirring, in the woods, almost like the soft hooves of a fawn. Though, at this time of night, it could be misleading to the untrained ear and eye. Though something shadowy moved slowly with a slickness and precision of a predator than some lost herbivore in the woods. Roya signalled a sign to Izaak; something did not feel right. She kne
