So, Frank's trust in me has been increasing, and now I know that he's keeping more secrets and has good reason for keeping them. I also know he has reasons for helping me learn things, though I'm surprised at how much he knows about how humans fight unarmed. I'm less surprised at his ability to explain scientific ideas I've never properly understood.

The other big thing? It's magic and all that comes with it. Apparently we're naturals at it, but we need to exercise caution around other supernatural beings. Especially faeries.

Frank knows some of those, and they deal back and forth for different things. It took him literal decades to get on such good terms with them, and telling me that gave away two of his secrets. One, he's older than me but not ancient, which also tells me the other secret. He's not the sleeping dragon.

I confronted him about that and he admitted that the big dragon is female, and manifested both of our eggs in ways he doesn't understand. What he does understand is that she does it every 63 years, and each of us has traits from an assortment of local mammals. We both have a little bit of bat and armadillo, I have some otter, he has some raccoon, and so on. I was given a lot of human while Frank only got the ability to think and talk like them. Apparently we have (had?) an older sibling that's part pronghorn, but Frank hasn't spotted them since before I was born.

Anyway, after spending so much time with Frank he decided it was time to give me a gift, something he asked for from his fae friends. It's a replacement for my swimsuit. I started wearing one to make space for my wings and tail, but it tears and I can't wash it as often as I want to. So, this new one is made of some kind of special silk, I think it's at least partially spider silk from magic spiders. It's really tough to tear and puncture, and easy to fix with just a little bit of thread. Normal thread turns into whatever the suit is made of when you're done sewing. Also it kinda self cleans by repelling anything that would stain it or make it dirty. Just shake it out really good, leave it out in moonlight, and it's fine!

He said it does more, but he wasn't told what. It was made for me so I need to figure that out myself.

So that sucked, but at least the one person who caught me doing anything let me off. I really was willing to help her take care of things, but in my condition I wouldn't have been much help. If any.

I hate having to spend as much money as I did, but I was right that it helped in the long run. Now to go through the obnoxious process of letting my body recover while I rest my brain. I don't have a lot of money left, and need to afford a way home, so I guess I have to do that on the streets. At least they're nice streets.

In the meantime, I plan to do a lot of swimming and keeping an eye out for other dragons.

I need to ask the right starting questions next time, I didn't have nearly the right preparations and not enough time to do anything if I'd known.

I also need to get better at talking to people, I have plenty of time to practice while I recover! What do normal people talk about anyway? Do I need a crash course in how to be normal? Except I'm not normal. At least I realize normal people don't want to kill me on sight, that'll help, but I don't know what to say if they prod me about my "GenWyld mods" that aren't mods. Do they even make actual moving wings?

Most of this would be easier if I could look human, but I'm not getting surgery to do it! I don't care if GenWyld can remove things too, I like who I am!