[Aradaewen]

"Nothing, I'm fine, just a bit tired." She really looked it. "Um, I was wondering if... eh.. you could just watch the girls" (she meant Collette and Faye) "while I attend a little private business?" Shade looked mystified but agreed, so Radae again faded into the night. As soon as Shade left, he shook himself a little.

Why would an elf be at a loss for words? Or need a hobbit-sitter? Now things were getting wierd... He decided to follow her. He slunk off in the shadow of the wall at a crouch, melting into the shadows. Radae traveled hard and fast, but her pace was not enough to leave Shade behind. She stopped at a river, and Shade flattened himself against a tree.

Radae looked around to make sure that nobody was watching and then began to undress. Shade pulled his head back around the tree respectively during this process, and when he peered around the trunk again, she was in the water up to her shoulders. He watched as she washed her hair and splashed just for the fun of it. This was boring.

Shade was just about to turn back when Radae exploded. When that's what he thought at first. She grew to about fifty times her size. A long snout with hundreds of razor teeth, batlike wings, spiked tail... A dragon!! The dragon's main body color was reddy-gold, like Radae's hair, with black wings and pure gold spikes. That was enough to confirm Shade's suspicion's. Radae was a dragon!