"But he gets to go down to the planet! Tresis! I cannot believe you won't let me go!"
"Because you're acting like a child! Until you learn to behave yourself you just will have to content your--"
A blast of black, hot flames came from Neres Storm's mouth. She had long since mastered her powers of fire, practicing against Tresis' natural ability to cause storms and weather changes. Everything she put to flame, he managed to put out. Well, there were disasters like in the aurora-leaf garden, which apparently damaged all the perfectly pretty little flowers beyond repair. That put a dent in Tresis' ability to have the dragon move freely about the main portion of the ship. A section was left for them of course, but as the black dragon grew larger into adulthood, he discovered that more and more people were less and less happy with the dragon.
Good. Fine. But if she kept up this whining attitude of hers, they'd just have to settle with her on the ship forever! Not a chance were they going down to the planet! The Glenn was right there. Beckoning. He could feel Neres' mental connection to the planet itself, she knew where she was from and she needed to go back there.
Quite like he felt about his home on Neres when Zekira still existed. But that was more than a star's age ago... And he did not have the option to return to anything.
He looked at the dragoness, who brooded. Suddenly Tresis realized that the ceiling was on fire again, and put it out by removing the air from the flames. He walked toward the great annoying black beast.
Softly, he put his long, pale fingers against her narrow nose. "I am sorry, Neres Storm. I underestimated your need to go home. Let us see how you can fly in real gravity. With real skies and clouds. Not these things..." he waved his hand at the entrance to the park center of the ship. It suited most of them. But ... He was a master of the environment. And this was a starship. Not a planet. He never felt at home here because, well, it wasn't a spinning, weather-covered ball circling a star!
He realized that Neres understood that too. Only in her way, she couldn't quite express it.
They got a ride in the large shuttlecraft down to the Glenn.
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