Maria and the space-dragons investigation 1 – Everything Is Better With Dragons

Maria and the Space-Dragons Investigate #1 -November 2024 Instalment

In this month’s instalment, Sarah reveals her true identity, and Maria realises just how dangerous Aurox is.

Enjoy!

Chapter 11 – Sarah McLintock – Aurox

Maria was solidly asleep, and snoring loudly in the guest room, it was safe for Sahrai to be herself now. She stripped, stretched and shifted.

Her wing nubs strained to grow, pushing against the caps the Elder had insisted be installed while she was on this mission. Her snout lengthened, eye and nose ridges rising. Her human ears shrank into her skull, leaving her ear holes unprotected. Her tail unwrapped from its place along her spine, curling around her newly lengthened feet and claws. Her haunches thickened, while her arms became smaller.

It was a relief but hurt!

Maria and the Space Dragons Investigate #1 – October 2024 instalment

To catch everyone up:

Our protagonists, an autistic human named Maria and their supervisor, Lah-Shah, who is a member of an alien species known to humans as ‘star dragons’, have been sent to investigate possible illegal actions in a newly inhabited planetary system. The organisation they work for is an intergalactic association of species deemed sentient enough, and humans are the newest, most junior members, after several hundred years of contact.

Lah-Shah has deposited Maria on the plant, pretending to be a research student interested in xenobiology, while he searches the system for the signs of an earlier team sent to do a thorough review of the planets for sentient life, who haven’t been heard from in a month.

Maria and the space-dragons investigate #1 – September 2024 instalment

Chapter ten – Maria – On Aurox

The carriage shuddered to a holt. The aurochs screamed again. Maria felt the creature’s pain shudder through the vehicle.

“Come on Doc, this is our stop.”

“I’m not a doctor.”

“You will be soon.” McLintock grinned.

“Thanks.” Maria responded, doubt showing in the lines of their face.

The steps dropped down, orange light and damp air filtered in, lighting up the face of the major, Collins, and the other soldiers. They looked grey and exhausted to Maria.

Maria and the space-dragons investigate #1 – August 2024 instalment

Did you know you can generate AI art images on WordPress? I didn’t but I wanted an image for this post, because Maria takes their investigation down to the planet of Aurox.

Maria and the space-dragons investigate #1 – July 2024 instalment

Chapter 7 – Lah-Shah

Lah-Shah took the pilot’s seat, gazing through the currently unshielded screen out into the hanger. The ship was a standard shuttle, with all the usual screens and operation boards, but being an Academy ship probably had some hidden features. He’d need to play around at some point to work out what they all were, but now was not the time.

Maria and the space-dragons investigation#1 – June 2024 Instalment

And we’re back!

Chapter 5 – Maria

Maria had watched the space-dragon explain the mission, feeling confused and angry, but couldn’t work out why. When Pjang-Nich had insulted humans, she didn’t think her words were insulting, but Maria had felt insulted. It was that communication thing again. They were speaking the same words but meaning different things. Pjang-Nich’s tail had swung backwards and forwards like a metronome until the Elder had marched out, the door banging shut behind her.

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