For no apparent reason, Orendo's small fortress laboratory had gained a dragon maid—a powerful adult guardian dragon maid, at that!
The dragon maid was named Emeriss, a powerful adult green dragon. The Guardian Lady was preparing to put an arcane collar on her. Even with the Eye of Truth's assistance, Orendo could only identify three or four of the spells and arcane arrays used on the collar.
"You will be punished by nature!"
"Ysera's wrath will soon descend!"
"The Green Dragonflight will tear you apart!"
"..."
Amid her curses, the collar was fitted around her neck.
Only after confirming that the green dragon was completely under control did Aegwynn explain where the dragon maid had come from.
"This dragon came for the beasts above. She wanted to free them, and she wanted to punish you. She happened to run into me when she came down."
The beasts above?
Orendo thought of the rooftop on the fourth floor of his fortress laboratory. He had initially turned it into a botanical garden, but it now held many captured owls.
It seemed this green dragon had come for those owls. Orendo sincerely thanked her. "Thank you, Mentor. Without you, I would have had to face a dragon's wrath."
"Why did you capture those beasts? They're terribly noisy," Aegwynn asked indifferently.
Orendo had not yet told her about his plan to modify and train owls, creating an Azeroth-style courier company.
Without avoiding Emeriss, who sat despairingly on the ground, he openly explained his idea.
"Have owls deliver letters as messengers? Train them into mages' magical pets? Hmm... it sounds a little ridiculous, but it isn't impossible," Aegwynn commented.
"I looked through the library records, along with some books from Karazhan. I found that mages rarely keep pets, and even when they do, they are