Now by the time Thalya woke up the next morning Lyra
had been a dragoness for several hours already.
Not that Thalya knew that at the moment.She'd got up ,found Lyra
wasn't with her and immediately suspected Lyra had backtracked back to the entrance of the dungeon
Lyra had actually,but not as a human woman anymore.
By the time Thalya had gotten up,the dragoness was already
making her first aerial attack on that nearby human village
which for some reason transformed Lyra had taken a flamebreathers disliking to.
So Thalya wisely backtracked.
She came to the Dragon Statue Cavern,which looked unchanged
from the last time she'd seen it,human sized feral male dragon with that member at the ready.
There were a few scorch marks here and there in the cavern
and bits of blackened cloth near the stue
but nothing the mage would have taken to be the ashed relics
of a woman turning into a big flamebreather.
And so since Thalya on her own in these dangerous dungeons
was not a good idea the mage swiftly made her way to the dungeon
entrance and made her way to the village,which lay about a
days walk over hills and mountains.
Of course with her new wings,Lyra the Furious had
gotten there considerably faster.
So as Thalya finally got to the crest of the hill on the other
side of which lay the village,the smoke alerted the maze
something was not well in the world.
By that point the attacking dragon was long gone,off to do dragon stuff but she had left witnesses behind.
And so Thalya put two and two together and realized that somehow her missing apprentice was the flamebreather that
had attacked this village.