‘Your mother?’ I prompted, when he hesitated.
‘My mother was a draykon.’
‘That’s not possible.’ I said it instantly, and instinctively, before I even paused to think about it. But on reflection, I wouldn’t take it back. My people had been extinct for centuries. How could he possibly have been born of a draykon mother?
He smiled faintly. ‘I assure you, it is.’
I stated my objections to the plausibility of his assertion, all of which he listened to with polite attention. He then merely said: ‘Just because they were extinct here, does not mean there cannot have been some stray one or two still living somewhere else.’
Such as, inside one of the several Lokant Libraries. That is possible, I suppose, but I have to wonder: Why had Limbane never mentioned it?
That’s not such an obvious quest
