"Wifey! I missed you so much!" The Silver Dragon, Cha Er, had barely been healed by Ding Dang before springing back to life. With shameless enthusiasm, he sidled up to the Black Dragon who appeared to be the foremost dragon leader and rubbed his huge head hard against her neck twice. "Ah, home is still the best. The outside world is so exhausting—though it is pretty interesting too."
I couldn't read the expression on the Black Dragon's face, but her actions were more persuasive: she flicked her neck and shoved Cha Er's head aside, snorting through her nostrils as she bared her teeth. "Could you act a little more proper? Look at yourself! When we were choosing people to go out, you were the first one yelling about seeing the world. And now you're putting on this act for me? Who are you trying to fool!?"
Judging by her tone, I figured this dragon's hometown probably wasn't far from Tieling... though her accent didn't sound like it.
"Um, can I get a word in?" Watching these two dragons, reunited like newlyweds, chatter away so engrossedly, I hesitated for quite a while before finding an opening. "Cha Er, aren't you going to introduce us? Is this your wife? A dragon leader?" That Silver Dragon had never been reliable, but his wife was actually one of the dragon leaders? Why was such important information only coming out now!?
"Please call me Cha Er. I'm not Fork," Cha Er corrected righteously once again. Then he tilted his head and rubbed it against the Black Dragon's neck. "Also, this is my dearest wife, Tracy. As you can see, she is the chief of the Black Dragon Tribe." He sounded as proud as could be. That was probably exactly how I sounded whenever I introduced