(Lakeside Park---Present day:)

‘“Nothing like a leisurely stroll in the park to clear your head and think’, Talon thought to himself  as he walked through the park he visited as often as possible. Especially on an early summer day like this when the trees were full of leaves. He found their rustling very calming, it reminded him of the sound of waves lapping against a ships hull.  

Those who didn’t know him would never know it by his seemingly apathetic expression. The people that knew him knew better, he was far from uncaring or as much of a closed book as he may appear to a stranger, quite the opposite infact. Talon just wasn’t the type of fur that ‘wore his feelings or his heart on his sleeve’ as they say. But being a sailor in the Navy his was a more solitary lifestyle and whenever he was home on leave from his tours of duty he spent time at this park. After months at a time cooped up in the confined quarters aboard a ship he prefered to be out in the open air and sunshine. This park with the large lake at it’s center, several walking trails partially shaded by the numerous trees along the winding pathways, two large playgrounds, one at each end of the park was a local gathering place for furs of all ages. Here there was always a greater diversity of people then what he would see onboard the ship.  Families came here as long as the weather would allow, couples found it to be a romantic spot for a picnic or a long stroll around the lake. Single mothers, and even some of the single fathers brought their cubs here to run and romp, letting them burn off the nervous, jittery energy of youth. Several older furs could be found just sitting on the benches lost in their own thoughts, or feeding the many lower species of birds that nested and raised young in the trees of the park.

Walking along lost in thought his eyes rambled over the landscape around him when something drew his attention to the cubs in the playground ahead of him, or the decided lack of the mass of cubs that would normally be playing there. Pulling his paw from the pocket of the hoodie the Elkhound wore almost continually he glanced at his watch noticing it was nearly noon. ‘Ah” Talon thought to himself “most of them would have been rustled up for lunch time by now,” as he sat down on the bench beside him. He watched the few cubs as they played on the playground equipment, climbing or swinging when one in particular caught his eye. The cub seemed strangely out of place to him. He’s never seen this particular cub here before, in fact as he considered the youngster he’d never seen one like this before at all. The childs color drew him to look closer, it was a brilliant hue of purple that he’d never seen before on a .person as far as he could remember. He watched the cub intently as it pumped it’s small legs swinging higher and higher. 

This child intrigued him, but as he started to rise from the bench he felt a little creepy to be staring at someone elses cub as he was. Turning to continue his walk a flash of color at the edge of his vision caught his attention and his head snapped back towards the playground. Just in time to see the small oddly colored cub fly out of the swing and land face down in the sand. 

Without a moments hesitation Talon rushed over to the child and extending a paw to help the child he said, “are you ok?  Are you hurt?” 

Raising her head slowly, nearly in tears she looked the stranger in the eyes and said, “y  yea I think so mister,” she said as she slowly tried to push herself off the ground and get to her feet.
“Ouch,” she said lifting her right leg gingerly touching her knee. “Ok maybe not,  my knee hurts. C could you help me to that bench over there please mister.”

Talon tried to walk the child over to the bench but it was difficult with their height difference and her limping. “This would work better if I just carry you over there if that’s alright with you.”
 
“Oh, umm, ok I guess.,’ she said shyly a slight blush coming to her cheeks.

Placing one forearm behind her knees, his other arm behind her shoulders he lifted her off the ground and carried her to the bench across the walkway where he had been sitting moments ago. 

He knelt down in front of the child after sitting her upon the bench and examined her knee, gently pressing against her leg with his paw as he asked\, “does that hurt?”

“Yea, just a little,” she said gingerly flexing her leg wincing with each flex of the joint.

“That was was a pretty silly thing to do, jumping out of a swing like that little one,” the Elkhound said looking down at her with a scowl on his face.

“It wasn’t on purpose, I... I slipped out because I wasn’t paying attention,” she admitted sheepishly.

“Still, you should be more careful, you could get hurt a lot worse than a bruised knee.  Where are your parents, I didn’t see anyone running to check on you when you fell?” he asked raising an eyebrow.

“I don’t have any, well at least that I know of,” she told him her eyes misting up.

“How can that be? Everyone has parents or are you an orphan or something?” Talons curiosity was peaked now, what would an orphan be doing alone in a park? And how would she have gotten here in the first place?

“Well I did have parents once I guess, but my kind tend to be more solitary,” she explained
“dragons are solitary types,” she said proudly as she smiled at him.

“Dragons?  Y  you’re a dragon?  WOW  I’ve never met a dragon before.” Talon was stunned, of all the types of furs and other creatures a dragon was one that he had always thought to be more myth than reality. He’d heard others talk about meeting dragons but had never seen one himself, ever. 

“So why wouldn’t your parents be with you? My parents hardly ever let me out of their sight when I was your age,” he crooked an eyebrow at the child.

“Well, like I said dragons are solitary, we like to be alone more than most people. We usually don’t even know our parents since they’re long gone before we even hatch. Our brothers and sisters, or clutch mates as most people call them, are the only family we normally know,” she told him.

“Oh then you have brothers and sisters?” he asked.

“No, when I hatched I was all alone. I don’t know what happened to the rest of the eggs, or even if there were any others. My kind is pretty rare, there aren’t many Amethyst dragons around, even fewer females,” she said proudly announcing her heritage to him.

“Oh you’re a girl dragon? Sorry I hadn’t really noticed that, what with meeting the first dragon I’ve ever seen and all. Guess in the excitement I didn’t think to ask either,” he admitted chiding himself for not even realising she was a girl.

“It’s ok mister, not everyone can tell the difference especially when I’m not wearing a dress or girly clothes. But I just felt like wearing this stuff today since I was coming to the park. But sometimes it does kind of annoy me when people think I’m a boy. Female dragons are pretty rare, and a female Amethyst like me is even rarer,” she explained to him, somewhat amazed that even wearing shorts instead of a skirt or a dress that he hadn’t figured out she was a girl.

“So, ummm can you fly, or breathe fire, or anything cool like that? That would be so cool to light candles and stuff like that,” he asked her excitedly. 

“Yea, I can fly pretty good, but I can’t breathe fire yet. I’m still too young for that,” she said pouting a little at the admission she couldn’t breathe fire.

“Oh, that’s ok, it’s cool that you can fly though. If you don’t mind me asking how old are you anyway?” he said wondering at her intelligence at such a young age as she appeared to be.

“Well that’s kind of hard to answer really, dragons age differently than all the other people I know of. We mark the years the same as you do but how fast we grow in size in what we can do is way different then it is for others because we live for such a long time compared to everyone else,” the little dragoness said a hint of sadness in her voice.

“Wow, I never thought when I left my place this morning I would meet a girl dragon today. So tell me little girl dragon...” he started to say.

“Estrid, my name is Estrid,” she said holding out her claw to him in a friendly gesture.

“Talon,  and it’s a pleasure to meet you Estrid,” he said taking her claw in his paw and shaking it gently.

“I think we should get you somewhere and get that knee looked at, make sure you’re alright Miss Estrid,” he said, concern in his eyes.

“N  no that’s alright we don’t need  to do that Mr. Talon,” she said, a frown creeping across her face.

“What’s wrong, why the sad face all of a sudden?” he asked her surprised at the sudden change in her demeanor.

“I   I didn’t really hurt myself Mr. Talon, it’s...just a way I get guys to feel sorry for me,” she admitted dropping her head unable to look him in the eyes any longer.

“Huh? Now why would such a pretty little dragon girl do something like that?” the Elkhound asked looking at her a bit confused. 

“It’s...it’s how I get them to give me pretty shiney things that I add to my hoard,” Estrid said not meeting his eyes as he glared at her.

“You, you were planning on hustling me?” he said incredulously, his eyes going wide as saucers at her revelation. “I can’t believe this, I finally meet a dragon, a real live GIRL dragon on top of it. And she turns out to be nothing more than a common con artist!” Rising to his paws quickly Talon stormed off down the path towards the lake, he couldn’t believe he’d let himself be taken in so easily.

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Estrid sat and watched the Elkhound as he stalked off down the footpath towards the parks lake. She’d known he would be upset by her admission but she didn’t expect him to be so upset at her.

Talon had in her mind started out as just another mark, just another sucker for her to ‘find’ his forgotten baubles after having her fun with him. But he had quickly proven to be very different than almost every male she had ever dealt with. He had shown an interest in her kind, and in her especially. He was thrilled to meet a dragon for the first time, not even realising that she was a female right away. The Elkhounds interest in her was real, not just a way to get into her panties like all the others. In fact the whole time they talked she hadn’t once caught even a whiff of that scent that meant a male wanted to mate with her. He hadn’t tried to trick her so he could have sex with her at all, that confused her and as far as she could remember had never happened before. When she had admitted that she was trying to deceive him he had even gotten mad, no she suddenly realised, not mad upset that she did that to him, even...

The sudden realisation that she had somehow hurt him hit the little dragoness like a stone confusing her even more.  She had to make this right, she had to find him so she ran down the path to find Mr. Talon and talk to him, if he would listen...

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Talon had walked over half way around the lake before his temper had cooled enough to actually think straight again. Why had it been so easy for the little dragon girl to fool him? Was he THAT gullible? Was he THAT naive? No he wasn’t either of those he had misjudged her, in his excitement at meeting an actual dragon he’d let his guard down and took her for what she seemed to be. As he stood beside the big boulder, one foot paw propped on it looking out across the calm still water of the lake he heard a small voice speaking to him.

“Mr. Talon? Mr. Talon can...can I talk to you,” Estrid called from a few feet away. She fidgeted slightly wringing the end of her tail in her claws. “I...I’m sorry I tried to trick you Mr. Talon.”

Glancing up at the little dragon girl he sighed heavily and started to turn and walk away when she ran up to him and tugged at the back of his hoodie. He looked over his shoulder opening his maw to say something when she spoke again.

“Please Mr. Talon, I’m so sorry for what I was gonna do, and for tricking you and for everything.
It’s just that to a dragon our hoard is really important. It’s a big part of our lives and what makes us what we are in life. Different dragons hoard different things, and get them in different ways, and what I do is way nicer than what some of my ancestors did to build their hoards. I   I’m sorry I made you mad, and hurt you Mr. Talon,” she said her sorrow clearly evident in her voice and her eyes.

Talon turned and seeing the dragoness appeared to be sincere slumped down seating himself on the large flat topped rock patting a spot next to him.

“Estrid, I guess I can understand that, but it’s really not a nice thing to do to people deceiving them like that. It’s wrong and kind of mean to be honest about it. I know that there are a lot of dishonest people in this world but you shouldn’t be one of them, partially because you should want to be honest with others, and because you represent your own kind. The impression people get from you is how they see all dragons, so if you’re always tricking people to get something out of them that’s what they will think all dragons are like.;” He paused a few moments letting her think that over before he continued in a teasing manner as he said, “you wouldn’t want to be the one little dragon girl to give dragons a bad name now would you?”

“N  no, I guess you’re right Mr. Talon,” she said looking at him sadly.

“Growing up I heard lots of different stories about dragons, but the ones I liked the best and that kind of helped me to be a good person are the ones about the good dragons. Those stories told that some kinds of dragons were really nice and helped others, even people like me, when they needed help the most. Those stories taught me that when you see someone that needs help you should help them if you can, because even just a little bit of help from someone can mean a lot to them. It could even make their lives just a little bit better and then they would be able and willing to help someone else when they needed it the most. In time that little bit of kindness will find it’s way back to you, like Karma kind of,” he said as he gazed out across the lake, a calm expression on his face.

What’s that, that Karma stuff?” Estrid asked cocking her head slightly at the strange word she’d never heard before.

“Well think of it this way, Karma is the things that you do coming back to you. If you do good things then good things will come to you. If you do bad things then bad things will happen to you. Does that make sense to you?” he asked raising an eyebrow at her expression as she thought it over a moment.

“So it’s like if I’m nice to someone then someone will be nice to me later and the other way around?”, she said a quizzical expression on her face.

“Yes, pretty much like that. You should also just be yourself and not try to be what others think you should be. Trying to be what others think you should be won’t ever make you really happy.
But when you just be who you really are you can be happy “

“Wow, I never thought about it like that, it makes a lot of sense though,” her eyes went wide in apparent understanding.

“If you can try to do those things people will have more respect for you, and maybe even for dragons in general. Do you think you can do that Estrid?” the Elkhound asked her.

“I   I can try to Mr Talon,” she said seeing a tiny glimmer in his eyes at her words.

“If you can try to do that then I can forgive you for tricking me,” he said a thoughtful expression on his face as he seemed to be thinking something over carefully.

“I want to give you something as a reminder of me, and of the things I want you to try to do to be a better person and a better dragon,” Talon said as he pulled his arms from the sleeves of his hoodie and slipped it over his head.

“I can’t accept that Mr. Talon, not after the way I tricked you and all,” she said dropping her head to not have to look into his eyes.

“I want you to have it Estrid, as a reminder of me and of what we have talked about,” he said reaching out a paw and tilting her head up to look into her eyes, “just don’t use it to steal anything, and please be a good girl from now on, ok?” he said a tiny grin on his maw. as he slipped the garment over her head and helped her get her arms into the sleeves.

Estrid stood there several long moments looking at the ground before raising her head and looking Talon straight in the eyes.  “Mr. Talon, you... you’ve been so nice about all this, and treated me so nice even though I tricked you into thinking I was hurt. Even gave me all that good advice about being myself and helping other people and all. I’d really like to thank you for that and to show you how sorry I am about what I did. And to thank you for the hoodie and for caring about me, but I don’t really have much to give to you to remember me by,” she said fidgeting with the tail of the hoodie as she looked up into this face and grinned sheepishly.

Talon had been staring out across the lake again as she had been speaking, when she paused he turned his head to look at her and gasped, his eyes going wide as saucers.
There she stood in front of him the hoddie hiked up and her shorts and panties pulled down to her knees.

“Please let me pleasure you Mr. Talon and give you something that few people ever get,” she said, her yellow eyes shining brightly as she gazed into his.

Talon was stunned beyond speech as he looked at the young dragoness before him, his eyes inexplicably drawn to her nethers no matter how he tried to resist. Several long moments passed, seeming like years to Talon before he could force the words out of his mind and his muzzle.

“Estrid!,” he squeaked, “wh...what are you doing? We can’t... we can’t do something like that out in the open like this. I cou..could never take advantage of...”

“You’re not taking advantage of me Mr. Talon, I’m offering myself to you. There’s a big difference, besides what happened to being yourself and not caring what other people think?” she asked grinning broadly at him as he blushed a bright crimson.

“Yea, well, but...but Estrid this is different. We can’t just...not right here in front of everyone,” he stammered as he quickly pulled the hoodie down to cover her nude nethers.

“Well I didn’t mean right here on this rock, that would be silly, and uncomfortable too,” she said as she glanced around, looking for a more suitable place. “How about over there Mr. Talon,” she suggested.

Looking in the direction she indicated with her claw Talon quickly spied the nearly hidden little building farther along past the looping end of the walking path. Surrounded on three sides by trees and high bushes it was very secluded and was a good one hundred feet or so from the least used portion of this particular pathway, he seldom saw anyone walk past the last bench which he had passed on his way to the rock he now sat upon.

Grabbing him by the paw Estrid tugged at him until he relented and rose from the stone and reluctantly followed the dragoness as she pulled him along behind her. Glancing around Estrid saw there was no one close enough to see them as she pulled Talon along behind her. She quickly walked along the side of the small storage building the parks grounds keeper used to store the mowers and other small tools he used to keep the park clean and orderly. Since she came to this park fairly often she knew the mowers and trimmers that usually occupied most of the space in the shed would be out because the grounds keeper would be at the far end of the park with them today. She knew his schedule well and used this building several times. Pulling Talon into the shed she quickly closed the doors behind him and pulled off her shorts and panties in a single fluid motion of rustling fabric.

“Estrid I don’t think we should...” he started to protest.

“Mr. Talon, you’ve done so much for me and I want to thank you properly. But being a dragon I don’t give away the treasures from my hoard. Besides those are just shiny baubles anyway. I want to give you something as special as what you have given me. The men that I trick give me those shiny things, but they don’t just hand them over like a coin. They usually do it after they have tricked me into letting them have sex with me”. But you’re different Mr. Talon, you really are a nice guy. You wanted to know about dragons and about me too. You just wanted to talk and to make sure I was ok, no one has even been that nice to me before. That was why I couldn’t keep tricking you to get what I wanted. But I want to give you the one thing I have that no other can give you , and that’s me. I’m an Amethyst female dragon. The rarest of my kind, and maybe even the only one of my kind.  So in a way I’m the greatest treasure that I or any dragon could ever have, but even my own kind see me as little more than a means to breed more of our kind and take any opportunity they get to mate with me even though I’m  not old enough yet.”

Talon struggled to fully comprehend all that this young dragoness was telling him all the while fighting his own slowly growing desire, it had crept up on him before he realised it was even there.

“I just...but I... “, Talon looked at her wide eyed as he tried to protest, even as he slowly gave in to the lust and desire this little purple dragon brought out in him.

Estrid slipped off the hoodie he gave to her, folded it carefully and lay it on the low counter the groundskeeper used as a work bench. 

Looking deeply into his eyes she strode over and stood in front of him. “Please Mr. Talon, please can we have sex so I can make you feel as good as you’ve made me feel today?”

For a few moments he could only stare at the nude purple form if front of him and blink, “O  Ok, if
that’s what you want but I...,” she cut him off mid thought.

“No buts Mr. Talon, just relax and let me do this,” she said reaching down slightly as her claws unfastened his belt, a quiet whipping sound from it rapidly sliding around his trim athletic waist as she pulled it free of his jeans dropping it to the ground. Both claws went to his waist as she unbuttoned the waist of his jeans sliding down the tang of the zipper as she unfastened his jeans. A claw on each hip she slowly slid the denim down his thighs as she leaned forward and gently pressed her muzzle against his groin. Breathing deeply she took in his scent as she nuzzled against his sheath. “Mmmmm you smell good Talon,” she cooed at him as she knelt down dragging his pants down his calves slipping them completely off as he lifted each foot paw. She folded his jeans neatly as she stood and turning to her side lay them on the bench with the hoodie. Her claws darted back to his waist hooking her claw tips in the waistband of his light blue boxer-briefs pulling them down over his hips. He yipped softly as she pulled them down his legs quickly, “sorry, forgot about your tail” she apologised as Talon blinked several times fighting back a tear. Tossing his underwear on top of his clothes she turned placing a claw on each of his hips, “step back,’ she said as she guided him backwards to the old but intact reclining chair the groundskeeper kept here for the rainy days when he had to be on duty but had little to do. 

As his calves bumped the front of the chair, his eyes locked with hers she said, “sit please”.
Talon dropped down into the chair as it quickly slid to the fully reclined position startling him. Climbing onto the chair Estrid straddled his thighs settling herself in quickly as she brought a claw to his groin slowly caressing the length of his sheath. Talon marveled at how her scaled claws felt so soft and gentle on his fur as she stroked him, his cock sliding out of his sheath and stiffening rapidly. Scooting herself backwards as she bent down into his lap she took his rapidly stiffening cock into her maw slowly sliding it into her mouth, her tongue stroking against the underside of his shaft. squeezing it tenderly against the roof of her mouth.

The sudden intense feelings of pleasure Talon felt from her tender ministrations upon his cock were incredible. He’d never felt anything like this before, not that he had what he would call a vast wealth of sexual experiences to draw on. He’d had several lovers but none of them had ever made him feel like this. The warmth he felt in his groin spread throughout his entire body slowly engulfing him in a bliss that was beyond words. Several long minutes passed as she stroked his manhood with her maw sliding her tongue, loosely pressed against his shaft, at an even slower pace magnifying the intensity of his arousal and pleasure by the minute. Talon’s body stiffened as he felt his orgasm nearing it’s peak, a reaction that did not go unnoticed by the little dragoness. Sliding her softly scaled claw to his base she constricted it lightly squeezing him firmly in the tender grasp, he moaned softly as his arousal slowly subsided. Maintaining her grasp on his base she pulled his cock from her maw with a wet sucking sound and looked him in the eyes, “did you like that Mr. Talon?” she asked playfully.

“God, yes! That was fantastic,” he moaned shivering briefly. “C   can you turn around so I can do you too Estrid?” he asked her, his breath still raspy.

“Oh yes I can, that would be very nice Mr. Talon,” she replied as she winked at him giggling softly. Estrid quickly twisted her lithe nimble body around, planting her feet beside his head lowering her nethers slowly towards his waiting muzzle. Bringing his paws to her hips as she resumed the oral assault on his rock hard cock he guided her to him, his tongue darted out licking her crotch from fleshy nub to her tight little tailstar as she hilted his cock in her mouth again. Both holding the position as they shuddered briefly, rocked gently by the sensations they were giving each other.

Talon moved first tracing his warm wet tongue along the cleft of her tender lips flicking the tip across her clit with each stroke. 

Estrid resumed the slow gentle assault on Talons steel hard shaft sucking gently as she stroked him with her tongue and her maw. Her own desire growing from his tender ministrations on her cunny as he began probing her depths with his nimble tongue. Talon lost all track of time as they teased each others most sensitive parts. Estrid brought him to the brink of orgasm only to tenderly squeeze his shaft holding back his release until it subsided as she came from his tongue flicking across the sensitive spots of her inner walls as he continually fucked her with his tongue to her great delight. 

Pulling away from his maw she quickly twisted her small body around planting her knees beside his hip as she gazed deeply into his eyes, “N  now f  for your  re  reward M  Mr. Talon,” she stammered, her breathing quick and stuttering. 

Rising up she gripped his turgid shaft firmly in her claw rubbing the tip along her lips coating him in her honey as she lined him up to her entrance. Talon threw back his head moaning deeply as she lowered herself taking him into warm velvety embrace of her folds achingly slowly as she watched his body shiver from the bliss she was giving him, a cool tingle running up her own spine as she felt his canine cock slowly filling her. As she hilted him inside her his head jerked forward a wide eyed expression on his face as he gasped loudly at the tightness of her cunny.
Rising slowly until only the tip of his cock was inside her she dropped her weight into his lap impaling his length inside her again and again as she rode him slowly, dragging out their arousal as long as she could stand to. Long minutes passed as she rode him, their breaths becoming short and fast as they both neared their peaks until she felt his knot begin to swell as it popped in and out of her young lips. 

 “E  Estrid I  I’m gon  gonna cum s s  soon,” he rasped, barely able to draw breath enough to speak.

“Pl  please M  M  Mr. TA  Talon,  d  don’t  s  s   stop. Cu  cum insi  inside me  p  please...”

Several times his knot popped in and out of her young tight cunny before it stuck, tightly wedged into her entrance locking him deeply inside her body as her inner walls spasmed and rippled on his throbbing cock to bring them to climax together.

Those words were the last thing he heard as his orgasm peaked, the only sound he could hear was their combined moan of ecstasy as their release flooded their senses, overwhelming them both as they floated on a sea of pleasure. Talons vision blurred and burst with colors and patterns from the sheer intensity of  his powerful release as thick ropes of hot creamy cum shot from his cock filling the young dragoness with his seed. His arms wrapped around her small smoothly scaled body holding her tightly against his chest as if the force of his ejaculations would rip her from his grasp.

Several long minutes passed before Talon had emptied his balls into the dragoness and their breathing calmed enough for either of them to speak. 

“Estrid, have you  ever had sex with a dog before?” he asked his breathing still heavy and a bit raspy.

“Y  yes Mr. Talon, I  I know about your knot and not to try to get off until it comes out on it’s own.”

“Oh ok then we’ll just stay like this I guess for now,” he whispered.

“That’d be nice Mr. Talon,” she whispered back to him as she snuggled against his chest gently running her talon tipped claw through the short fur on his chest.

A few minutes passed before she felt his knot slip from her nethers with a soft pop. She clenched the muscels of her cunny as she slow rose from his lap his slowly deflating cock slipping from her depths as she stroked his sensitive member with her nethers. 
She quickly stood beside the chair as he watched and cupped one claw between her legs catching his spent seed as it slipped from her body. 

Talon watched wide eyed as she brought her cum sodden claw to her mouth and drank his seed licking every drop from it’s smooth scaled surface.

“Thank you very much Mr. Talon, I hope you enjoyed your reward for being nice to me,” she said with an impish look on her face and a wink.

“Very much Estrid, it’s something I will remember always,” the Elkhound replied an enormous smile on his muzzle.

Estrid quickly slipped her clothes back on and handed Talon each piece of his as he redressed himself. Once they were sure no one was near enough to see them they walked back to the looping end of the walking path and walked along side by side towards the lake.

Stopping beside the stone Talon had been seated on when she had caught up to him earlier she tugged on his wrist and Talon leaned down towards her. 

Kissing him gently on the cheek she said, “thank you for everything Mr. Talon this has been a very nice day at the park.”

“Thank you as well Estrid, it has been a very memorable day for me as well.

Talon watched, smiling to himself as the little dragon girl walked away. He started suddenly when she turned her head towards him and waved at him, something black and roughly square in her claw. Patting his back pockets he suddenly realised she had his wallet and ran after her. As he drew near two small wings unfurled from her back and with a few quick flaps she took to the air a few feet above the pathway. Talon took off in a dead run after her as she kept just a few feet ahead of him teasing him by not letting him get quite within reach of her. After a few minutes she flapped her wings harder and rose quickly into the air and flew off the the side of the path and out of his sight.

Talon came to a stumbling stop on the path unable to believe that she would steal from him after all they had talked about and the promise she had made to him. He turned towards the lake and walked dazedly to the waters edge staring out over it’s surface for several long minutes.

A soft fluttering sound came suddenly to his ears, or it seemed to be sudden as he hadn’t paid much attention to anything around him for several long minutes. Turning suddenly towards the sound he saw Estrid hovering some ten feet above the ground in front of him a big silly grin on her face and his wallet still in her claw.

“Sorry Mr. Talon for playing a trick on you but I am a dragon after all. I thank you for all your kindness and good advice though,” she said as she dropped the wallet to the ground in front of him.

“But a little dragon has some advice for you too Mr. Talon. Don’t ever stop being a nice guy, but be careful who you trust sometimes too. And watch out for dragons, they’re sneaky creatures,” she said grinning at him mischievously winking at him impishly before flying off towards the setting sun.

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Estrid strolled around the park reminiscing about the many times she'd been here. It had been years since she used this park to find her 'gentlemen friends' that unwittingly helped her to grow her hoard. The same men she seduced to give the other things she wanted and desired, adoration, clothes, a warm place to sleep occasionally, and the pleasure she sought and desired. Her first lover, Seijuro a golden dragon, had been rough and crass with her, but had opened her eyes to that world of pleasure. Once she knew of it she wanted more, her own kind were all to happy to oblige her, some even sought her out to mate with her, but they thought of her as little more then breeding stock, rare indeed being an Amethyst female, but a breeder none the less. People however gave her more, men in particular were more then willing to give her praise, adoration and the pleasure she sought.

Estrid walked slowly around the lake lost in her thoughts when her eyes caught sight of the little grounds keepers shed. Smiling softly as a long forgotten memory came to her again unbidden. The first male she had ever encountered that didn't almost immediately want to breed her. Talon, the Elkhound sailor she had attempted to trick and seduce in this very park years ago. He had been the first to ever show a genuine interest in her as more then an innocent little girl to breed with. Her smile widened as she glanced down to her chest seeing the orange hoodie he had given her so long ago. She seldom wore the garment, keeping it instead stored away in a box of darkly colored wood bound in Mithril. Other dragons would consider the simple piece of cloth as useless, but to her it held immense sentimental value. To her, memories of the handsome young Elkhound that had been the first male to ever treat her with the kind of honor and respect she deserved were woven within the threads of the simple orange hoodie, given freely by the male that had shown her that respect. She'd worn it to this park today intentionally, hoping to perhaps run into that very male again. It fit her better now then it had on the day he had given it to her, but was still a little big on her. The slower growth and aging of dragons confused others, but to Estrid is was as natural as breathing.

Lost in her memories she suddenly found herself very near the very playground she had been swinging in the day she'd met the Elkhound male. As she watched the anthro children playing on the swings and slides of the playground one in particular caught her attention. A young Elkound mix of some sort, as she looked at the boy more intently she saw that he looked remarkably the same as she remembered Talon looking only younger. Glancing about quickly the only adult she saw close by was an older man, nearly 70 by his appearance, sitting on a bench nearby dozing quietly. A soft warmth came to her, something about the male seemed vaguely familiar though she couldn't place the face. She felt that she somehow knew him, but couldn't seem to actually remember ever seeing the older males face before. Shrugging softly she continued walking along the paved path lost in her memories once more.

As the strangest sight he'd ever seen in his young life passed farther down the walking path Conner shook his head trying to recover from disbelief. He'd heard stories of dragons from several people, but only one person had ever said anything about what he had just seen.

Conner ran up to the older Elkhound sitting on the bench "Grampa, Grampa, you won't believe what I just saw," he said as the older canine stirred but continued to doze quietly.Placing his paws on his grandfathers shoulders and nudging him lightly he tried to stir him again speaking a bit louder. "Grandpa Talon, wake up. I just saw a little purple dragon girl in an orange hoodie...