Episode 2

I'm in the water trying to survive, because I don't know how to swim, the current was taking me with force while I struggled to breathe, I mentally determined that this was not how I was going to die. __ Current, don't be mean, take me to a safe place, I thought, wishing for some kind of miracle to happen, suddenly I feel the water pulling me down, I was almost losing consciousness at that moment, I thought I was going to die, my life was fading when unexpectedly I feel as if the river had expelled me, I fall on the sand on the river bank, I'm on my knees coughing fiercely, throwing up water that I swallowed from the river.

I get up with difficulty looking at the river "What happened here?" I think, I look around and have no idea where I am, I start to climb a higher area, moving away from the river before continuing I stop, I turn once more to face the river.

"Even without understanding what happened, thank you river, for letting me live!""I sigh and distance myself from the river."

I haven't even been in this place an hour and I already consider myself crazy, me, talking to the water, if that wasn't impossible I could swear I was spat out by that river, am I going crazy!?

When Alina has her back to the river, the water rises and forms a large hand that waves 'goodbye' and soon returns to its original shape.

Alina starts walking, she looks in all directions to see if she has any idea where she is, but she has no idea of the place she is now, she decides to look for a safe place to sleep since it is getting dark, from a distance she sees something that it looked like a cave, she went with determination in that direction, but unexpectedly she hears footsteps behind her.

"Oh no! the henchmen again, I have to run!""When she was getting ready to run, something fell in front of her."

"Ah! But what? Who are you?""Alina questioned the creature that plummeted in front of her."

"That way, I suppose he flew in that direction! Let's go! Let's go!""Alina hears some voices pronouncing those sentences getting closer and closer, she looks in the direction of the voices and then observes the beast in front of her, her gaze meets the animal's gaze and she feels as if the beast is reading her soul, she comes out of her trance when she realizes that the voices are closer to where they were, she looks again at the animal that has a totally different look from a few seconds ago, now he is looking at her as if asking for help, Alina doesn't think twice and approaches the creature, carries it in her arms and starts running towards the cave."

"Calm down little one, I won't hurt you and please don't hurt me, come on, I'll carry you, okay? Wow! but how heavy you are, I will do my best to protect you. We've arrived! I think we'll be safe here! Stay here.""Alina places the animal on the floor inside the cave, she goes out, picks up some leaves and places them in front of the entrance to the place to make it difficult to be discovered, goes back to the cave and observes the creature carefully with an expression of doubt ."

"One, but what are you? These look like scales and very thick scales by the way""The dragon looks at her with boredom and snorts with smoke coming out of his nose, Alina starts waving her hands frantically to disperse the smoke."

"Don't do that, they might discover us!""As soon as Alina finishes speaking, footsteps and voices are heard in front of the cave, she instinctively hugs the dragon thinking of protecting it, a few minutes later she realizes that the noise outside is getting further and further away, so she slowly releases the air that she didn't even notice she was holding."

"That was close, little friend!""she sighs in relief, looking to sit on the floor, but instead she sits on the dragon's spiky tail, which pricks her buttocks, causing her to cry out in pain."

"Ouch! What is that? She realized that what had pricked her was the beast's tail, she looked more closely and a snap went off in her mind." You! you are a dragon! "" Alina stated as if she were in a guessing game she had just won, the dragon again looks at her with an expression of pure boredom, as if to say: wow, how slow you are, human, he snorted wearily, closing his eyes.

Alina analyzes the dragon's expression and as if she understands what the dragon is thinking, she begins to speak.

"Ah! Take it easy on me, buddy, it's not every day that we see a dragon, oh! Wait! But that's impossible! Dragons don't exist! Do they exist?""Alina looks carefully at the dragon, who ignores her completely, Alina sighs and begins to recap everything that happened to her and goes to the entrance of the cave to make sure they are safe, when she realizes that the place is calm, she looks at the sky and is surprised by the image, she had never seen the sky with as many stars as she sees now," It's splendid! "" Alina murmurs, kneels down and says a prayer, ending her prayer, she is grateful to have found the dragon, because for the first time she feels that she is not alone, she is grateful for having been spat out by the river, because she is alive and away from the trafficker.

"I just have to be grateful, thank you creator! She gets up, goes to the cave and lies down next to the dragon, when she falls asleep, the dragon opens its eyes, pulls Alina with its tail wrapped around her waist, covers her with its body, warming the human who is now sleeping peacefully."