Looking around at the flowers, she began to relax a little. "They never had a chance," she said as she slowly began to digg out more room in the grave with her free arm, "I should have been more careful."

Goldenscale went over to help the dragoness with digging the grave. "There is no such thing as being more careful. Life is as unexpected as nature itself. But nature and life work together because they care for one another. Those who die get a second chance sometime, may it be directly after death or years after. Life is like a flower, it dies in the winter but returns in the spring." she said quietly. She smiled at her own words, wishing to believe it was true.

"They would still be alive if I hadn't brought them so close to that human village. I was just trying to teach them how to hunt when the humans took them. I fought them as best I could, but their machines out lasted me," she said, tkaing the mangled bodies from the bag and softly laying them in the grave before starting to fill it back in, "All they wanted was to learn, and now everything has been taken from them. All I have now is this bag and their yells."

"Yes, the humans broke their mind before their bodies. Their spirits passed the moment they died," she said, curling up over the grave and sobbing, "They were made mindless. I can only find peace in knowing they weren't bound to this world, their spirits are free to live again when their time comes."

"Maybe you can come by later, I just want to be alone for a while," she said, laying her head down and laying a wing over herself.

As the sun began to rise, Mayumi woke. Moving so she would not wake Frost as she left the bed, she walked over to her alchemy set and started working on a simple mixture. As she worked, she began humming a soft tune from her chioldhood.

Near the willow, Talia was drawing several landscapes into the dirt with her claws. Each one had detailed aspects of large dragon villages.

Looking up from her drawings, Talia turned to see Goldenscale. "Good morning Goldenscale," she said, her voice sounding a little hallow, "I'm sorry if I seem a little off today. I just have a lot on my mind."

Frost rolls over sleeping soundly.