Obsi took Zell to her old home, she remembered exactly where it was even though she had not laid her eyes upon it in hundreds of years. It sat on the edge of the isle atop a tall cliff that overlooked the ocean. She expected to find the home in disrepair, but it was clean and pristine. The landscaping was even maintained.
"Surely not after all this time." Obsi said aloud. "She couldn't still be here."
"Who?" Zell asked out of curiosity.
"Our maid." Obsi explained. "She served my father and my family for eons, I thought when I didn't come home, she would have found something else to do."
"Why would she?" Zell asked. "With a house this massive all to herself with no masters to serve or to order her around. Why would anyone move out?"
"I concede your point human." Obsi agreed. Obsi took a deep breath and shouted. "Lucille, are you in there?!"
An upstairs window opened swiftly and a woman with long blue hair popped her head out. "Young mistress?!" She replied. "Is that you?! After all these years you have finally come home?!"
"Or maybe she just really missed you and wanted everything to be perfect when you got home." Zell shrugged.
Seeing Lucille's excitement, Obsi could not help but agree. "Seems to be that way."
"Hold on!" Lucille yelled. "I will be right down mistress!"
She vanished from the window and within moments the main entrance to the estate opened. Lucille was pushing the doors open. She was a petite girl, and her blue hair reached down to her hips. She wore a traditional French maid's outfit, complete with the hair accessory. She had two small horns coming from either side of her head and a long blue tail coming from under her skirt.
"Welcome home my mistress!" Lucille said excitedly.
"It is good to be home." Obsi said. "Thank you for taking such diligent care of my home while I was away."
"It was my pleasure, mistress." Lucille said bowing. "I would never allow the house of the former master of black fall into disarray."
"Yes, I know you loved my father." Obsi said.
"Very much so mistress." Lucille smiled. "Is this human a meal for later? Should I prepare him to cook."
"Hahahaha!" Obsi laughed loudly. "No, this human is my friend, he is not food. Perhaps a sex toy, but not food."
"I see." Lucille said. "Should I prepare the old master's sex dungeon then?"
"No!" Zell protested. "I am just staying here while the elders teach me magic, I am not going to be anyone's toy or spend time in any sex dungeon!"
"You always spoil the fun." Obsi sighed. One day I know you will give in to my advances, after all once eternal life and youth is yours, you will want a companion that has the same. I have faith that one day you will come around."
Zell paused thinking. [Accepting eternal life will not only keep me from my past family, but I will have to watch everyone I know and love in this life slowly die as well.]
"Thinking about the consequences of eternal life?" Obsi teased. "The first few hundred years are the hardest, but eventually you become numb to the pain of loss." She focused back on her maid. "Please prepare a meal for us. It has been a long day and I wish to dine, bathe, and then go to sleep."
"As you wish, my mistress." Lucille said., leaving to go to the kitchen.
"So, I couldn't help but notice, Lucille is a blue dragon like your brother." Zell said.
"Yes, I guess I should explain more about dragons." Obsi said. "Let us retire to the living room and I will explain further in there."
Obsi went inside the house and Zell followed her. He was amazed by the sights inside. Black marble floors and walls, with a ceiling of glass and gold. Statues made of the same black marble lined either side of the hall and candles were placed every few feet for illumination of the corridors. A long crimson rug stretched down the center of the foyer and branched off to a winding grand staircase that led to the upper floor.
Obsi took a left at the staircase and entered a large room with a fireplace. The exterior wall was mostly glass with a view of the ocean. Several couches and chairs filled the room, and sat in a manner that was conducive to conversations.
"My family used to entertain the other elder dragons." Obsi explained. "This is the room that was used. Come sit." She sat down on a couch near the fireplace and patted the cushion next to her.
Zell took the chair across from her and sat down. "So, you were going to explain about dragons?" He said as he sat down, ignoring her request to sit next to her.
Obsi sighed and then began to speak. "There are different classifications of my kind. You have ones like myself, my brother, and the elders, and then you have the drakes. The ones like me we call dragons, and we are unmatched in strength and magical power. Our dragon forms are massive to match. The drakes are much weaker, still far superior to a human, but far weaker than a dragon. Their dragon form is much smaller as well. Now as to your question, no Lucille is not related to me. My father did his share of getting around, but he only ever produced two offspring. One with a great black dragon and another with a great blue dragon. When two dragons of different flights mate, the offspring can be of either flight. Dragons have far fewer offspring than drakes do, and no we do not know the cause. Also, to my knowledge a dragon and drake cannot produce a child, nor do two drakes make a dragon or two dragons make a drake."
"So different species entirely." Zell said. "So, what happened to your mother, and your brother's mother? Your father as well? I thought dragons lived forever."
"Remember how we told you that some of the dragons snuck back into the divine realm and stole a piece to make the magic pool necessary for our immortality?" Obsi explained. "There were many elder dragons among that party, not all of them returned home."
"I see." Zell said. "I am sorry for your loss."
"Thank you, but I have had eons to process it." Obsi replied. "We should talk about your chambers; I am fine with you sharing my bed with me."
"Other options?" Zell asked.
"You could share one with Lucille if you were so inclined." Obsi teased. "I do not mind sharing you, after all we have forever."
"Any options where I can sleep alone?" Zell asked again.
"Well, if you want to be all boring about it." Obsi replied.. "There may be a few dozen empty rooms for you to pick from."