dragon may and another dragon
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"No, but there are cars - they can go real fast on their wheels and could hit you - and cliffs, and bears."

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Disbelieving look. "You're keeping me prisoner because of cliffs?!"

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"I don't want to keep you prisoner but this is not actually a planet that a human can live alone in the woods on, in spite of the low density of dragons. I would have just run after you but I can't run. Do you want me to get your cagemate or not."

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"Augh! Yes, fine, being your prisoner is better than being in a cage surrounded by dragons!"

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"I would have waited till I had some better plan for housing you guys but the dragon wasn't very reassuring about how likely it was you'd get eaten in the time that would take." Sigh. Trace the spell again.

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Nervous grumpy half-audible muttering.

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The second human, on arrival, looks around wildly and then huddles in terror against the first.

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"Hello. I'm sorry to alarm you. The dragon is not going to eat you; I can talk to her. This is another planet where humans are the dominant species but you two do not know how to live here yet and will need help and to learn a local language."

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"...gaaaaah?? What??"

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She repeats herself.

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"I tried to leave and she wouldn't let me," the other one says. "Said I might run off a cliff. Or into a bear."

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"Better than a dragon," the second one mutters.

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"Is it? What, do they play with their food?"

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"They kept us in a CAGE and STARED at us and sometimes one of them came over and SHOOK IT."

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"Yes, you didn't look like you were doing well at all but surely being mauled by a bear would also be extremely bad!"

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"Lot of fancy talk from somebody who just wants me to be stared at by hungry dragons some more!"

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"I am happy to show you to a safe place to wait where she won't be able to see you."

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"...fine." Suspicious glaring.

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She walks the class pets to her car. "I'm May. What are your names?"

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"...Fern," says the suspicious one, reluctantly.

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The quiet one doesn't say anything.

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The car is parked on a turnout by the side of the road. She didn't get very far into the woods, just enough that nobody would see her. "The dragon you saw is the only dragon who's gone from your planet to this one, and I can talk to her, and she helped me help you - she drew a picture of you two so I could target the spell. I don't think she will try to eat you, but if she does, I will stop her by force if necessary. I am going to go talk to her for a while longer and then come back and try to connect you with some kind of housing situation. If you're hungry, these bags tear open easily and have food in them but I can't promise it will be recognizable or appealing to you, I have no idea what the dragons were feeding you." It's Goldfish crackers and a trail mix. "If you have to pee, please don't do it in the car, it'd be a pain to clean. I'm going to leave it unlocked so you can get in and out, like so." Car door demonstration. "It'll keep bears out. Questions?"

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Fern shakes her head.

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"If you decide to run off into the woods together I c- well, I could stop you but I'm not going to keep doing it, but you have my very strong recommendation not to. This planet is not like what you are used to, and not just because it's not the inside of a terrarium, I predict that even apart from easily communicable issues like bears you will run into bizarre problems that would be very hard to explain in advance if you ran off into the woods unable to speak to anyone without magic that at the moment only I have. After I've finished talking to the dragon, we can talk about retrieving more people from your planet, okay? There's no reason I can't get everybody you know and everybody they know and so on but I will only do that if we have something that seems to me sane and appropriate to do with you all."

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Fern glares suspiciously some more.

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