La Mia

Chapter 3. The shop

Having the time to learn even written language I could speak to anyone without words, smiling as I had that bragging right as I hit the bell again and a voice behind me said in impatience and annoyance "I'm coming, I'm coming." As I peer behind me waiting to see the person a voice said in front of me, "So you think you can woo without words eh?" I jumped and blushed and spoke nervously to an old man in front of me. "If I wanted yes but I want to find love not woo a person for a short time, and I don't want a human mate only to have them die before me and to be lonely again, I want someone I can love forever and will love me the same." He laughed and smiled. "Such a tall order little one but then again you are a special girl aren't you, a lamia who genuinely craves love instead of lust I'll see what I can do to give you your wish, although you may not like it in the end, or maybe it'll be perfect and work perfectly" He began to read various papers around the room discarding each he picked up and finally finding one to his satisfaction brought it to the desk. "I somehow knew today required this paper and should have kept it in front." The papers appeared to be very old not only slowly being age eaten but the language was so old it took me a bit to recognize the original dragon dragon symbols, not words but symbols. Something I've only heard of dragon of high standing knowing anymore, well then again they were old and as pure as a dragon could get and there children usually are like them. Pure and high standing, but primarily female, the only time a male was aloud seemed to be when one of the dragons wanted to call it's life and end and needed a male lineage to win and keep his land so he can rest in peace, or when he needed extra females so needed a younger flashier male to draw a younger more able to produce airs further from his line for further mating, and as soon as he had enough to insure his wants he'd kill or drive off the male or so that's what the paper said. I wasn't sure of that the dragons rarely likes any competition that's why the lamias who only had female children was chosen to make future mates for the dragons they like as little male competition as possible if none at all. So why pick that paper was this man thinking of turning her into one of them beasts where they the only ones able to give her what she wanted. I shudder as i remember the fights my people had with the dragons, considering Lamias where one of the few creatures able to harm a dragon in the same way they could a lamia it's good they rarely shared the same space or neither would survive the other but this man's suggesting I find one as a life partner was so far out there but as I thought about it. Lamias, dragons, succubuses, and incubuses where the only fully eternal creatures that were hard to kill if not impossible, and incubuses and Lamias had no effect on each other and succubuses where just female incubuses, so dragons was as close as I was getting. I sigh at the realisation but was happy a creature was out there that could perhaps love me even if it wasn't going to be easy.