Meanwhile elsewhere on the Cloud Plane
Nat had never met Issac,but
years earlier had met and been bitten
by a rather infectious and mutagenic
baby air dragon.
Over the years that baby air dragon had grown into a fullsized
leviathonus squamous aeyrie
a giant air dragon for short
and the human Nat was no longer human
but some kind of
fairly big
air dragon human anthro hybrid dragoness.
who was a few feet too tall to
where human cloud person clothing
anymore.
Lacking wings but cursed with a dragons instinct
and desire to fly
Nat did so by riding on the back of the huge
air dragon,whom she called Chirp.
So she was landing on the ground again near her unimportant
human village
when the men in robes
otherwise known as the
Forensics Team
came out to greet Nat and Chirp.
By now everyone was well aware of the assassination
of King Druul and the three accused
in his death.
What wasn't commonly known outside
of legal inside circles
was Issac's absorption of
Saggitarius the
Pegasus leader.
For the Forensic's Team that had raised
another possibility
That there was a fifth assassin.
This theory went that
one of the three accused had been riding
on a Pegasus horse flying hidden behind
the Book Depository Tower
carrying a short range weapon,rather then a still
missing Cloud Hammer
and had swooped in on a unsuspecting King Druul from in front
of the Sun and
shot him at closer range then
was thought.
In other words
the assassin hadn't needed a long range
Cloud Hammer shot from the Tower
but had done the deed with
a much smaller and easier
to conceal weapon.
The Lone Pegasus Theory.
And the Forensics Team wanted to hire
dragonish Nat and Chirp to carry
out some ballistics tests on corpses
to be supplied by
the Army.
Not surprisingly
after the brutal suppression
of the Peoples Rebels
there
were plenty of corpses
to test out on.