Dragons and the Sky

Transform... let me see...

Maggie stared stiffly at Her Highness the Princess before her. Accustomed to conventional ways of thinking, she simply could not keep up with Rebecca's pace at that moment. Only after confirming that she had not misheard did she feel a flicker of irritation.

Transform and let her see!

Was she being treated like some rare animal, some amusing spectacle?!

Already somewhat resistant to her dragon form because of her physical deformity, Maggie now heard Rebecca make a request that sounded every bit like the thoughtless demand of a noble child. She felt every blood vessel in her body pulse, but reason forced her to suppress her anger. After all, the girl before her was the legal heir to this newborn empire. Even her Mistress had to remain polite when facing this princess. So Maggie restrained her emotions and asked as calmly as she could, "Why do you want to see my dragon form?"

Unfortunately, the thick-skinned Rebecca did not notice Maggie's emotional shift at all—if she could sense other people's moods, she would not get beaten up every few days for being so stubborn. The girl merely kept smiling happily, her face radiant. "I want to fly too!!"

Everything Maggie had meant to say condensed into six dots and a question mark: "...?"

Then, under the increasingly confused and astonished gaze of the black dragon girl, Rebecca suddenly pulled out a large scroll from somewhere. With a rustle, she shook it open before Maggie—it was a hand-drawn Mechanical Design Draft, covered in Rune Array diagrams.

The next second, Rebecca spread the draft on the ground and eagerly explained it to the bewildered Maggie. "Look at this! This isn't a cone; it's the aircraft I designed. The ring underneath is called an anti-gravity ring. It can provide