At the Sky Level

Chapter 1.

Dragons... majestic and powerful creatures, extremely wise, as calm as the mountains they live in and full of delightful mysterious power, cunning and a little bit greedy, of course... At least, they will never share anything belonging to them... burning with their hot breath... reptiles? No doubt, they are reptiles, but isn't it true that the heart of every man is a dragon’s heart?

Living for about a thousand years, the inhabitants of the remote caves carefully hide their dwellings in inaccessible mountain ranges that nearly touch the sky. And don't look down, no way, or bottomless valleys will definitely make you feel dizzy...

After all, the goal of each dragon is to find his True Love and bring Her to his safe and comfortable dwelling, inaccessible to the enemies, blocked by magic and an extremely secret place. The cave is, of course, necessarily rich in its decoration – lots of chests with gold, silver, diamonds, sometimes the bodies of enemies…. After all, it is here that the dragon will bring Her to Himself, to her husband. Here will be his secret nest filled with family happiness ... A beautiful and barefoot long-haired pregnant woman - dragoness in the kitchen, standing on a thick and warm animal skin - this is the dream of every dragon... He will present Her a lot of gold, because she is his most valuable treasure...

In the dragon's imagination, for some reason, a picture of a beautiful pregnant woman appeared and the powerful reptile lying on top of distant mountains, at the edge of the world, felt unbelievably satisfied…

- She definitely exists in our worlds, this or parallel..., - he was thinking, looking at the sky and lying on the top of the touching the clouds mountain." But what is she like?

A dragoness is one hundred percent introvert, so her zodiac sign is Scorpio. And that means...she loves mysteries, she is looking for herself in life, sporty, strong, educated, emotional... Mmmm, yes, my love, I will find you, dear! And he hit the rock with his paw.

There were almost no golden dragons left in their dying world, dried up by the cruel Sun, only his brothers, about twenty or thirty lords of the sky, came to the annual meeting with their Oracle, and among them there were only five dragons of different age. Here, in the bowels of the earth, the snow-white sand smoothly passed under the water and continued with an underground lake, in which the Oracle lived. It was an incorporeal spirit, to whom all the secrets of the world were known. It was here that the dragons found hope for their family happiness and received clues about where to look for their True Love. It was considered a great happiness if she was born in the same time continuum as the dragon, and he did not have to wait for the next rebirth to create a family with him ...

The golden dragon, lying on the light brown rock and almost merging with its surface, blinked. He was so lucky, she was already born and lives ... in a parallel world ... The Oracle told him this good news yesterday and, since then, Sky Thunder has been thinking about ways to bring his True Love here, in his cave. The replenishment of magical resources and the transition to his own human form, which he locked in his body, was a necessary condition for this task. You will have to put up with this wayward, rebellious and cunning person. Only is he able to read the magical books in his huge cave with polished floors and walls, animal skins on the floor and chests of treasures collected during distant travels, and only is he able to bring the dragoness, who is now in a human form, into his lair. Sky Thunder sighed and mentally called his inner man:" Ascalante... We need to talk...

- Pauline, are you going to meet the deadline this time, heh? – heard a girl sitting in front of the computer next to the window.

Pauline was a newhire at a huge company, Meditec Corporation, and often had to go the extra mile at work just to stay on track. She did her best to be proactive and show good results, but in the company business sharks, as she often called her colleagues, she felt shy. She really adored people watching. There were so many different individuals in the world, each one looking different, with a different set of values and beliefs…

I think I’m attracted to so-called eccentric people. Most of the people I know avoid them, but I always find these individuals interesting. I believe they are weird for a reason. They often develop unusual interests and tend to be artistic, imaginative and very sensitive.

Pauline was a typical introvert and she liked her own special parties. Don’t expect to meet lots of people there, it was just listening to rock ballads and watching the sky at night. Strange as it seems, Pauline had the time of her life at her parties. It was just terrific.

In a nutshell, being an introvert, she needed to pluck up some courage to strike up a conversation with people. During the three weeks that she had been working at the company, Pauline saw lots of personalities: beauty kings and queens, drama queens, health nuts, computer wizards… All of them were very confident professionals in marketing, management, finance… Now she was looking at a young man telling her something. It was unexpected to hear a sudden voice next to her working place. At first, she felt absolutely petrified and pretty thrilled at the same time, but then her curiosity took over, and she looked at a strange person, Derek by name.

He was skinny and lanky. He wore the most ridiculous clothes in very bright colors and shoes which never matched. Pauline also knew that he had a rat as a pet and once, he brought that disgusting white creature to work. When the girl saw a rat, her hair stood on end and she froze. He asked how she liked his pet and she, unexpectedly for herself, told him to go to hell. Derek just laughed and left the office.

And now he is asking how she is going to meet the deadline!