The new dragon world wasn't that different in many respects
then Amanda's old human world.
The artificial mountains were laid out in linear fashion
much like Earth buildings were laid out along straight lined
streets.
The artificial mountain Amanda's cave was in had
300 caves,much like Amanda's old apartment building had held
302 apartments.
There were some major changing differences however.
In her old apartment building Amanda had know a shy
reclusive bachelornamed Bill two floors up who had to too timid to ask her out for a first date.In this artificial mountain
the counterpart to Bill,the dragon named Firmen had
not only entered her old apartment but had mated her and
( she'd find out later) get her three dragon eggs fertilized.
Unlike Bill,Firmen was not shy,reluctant and timid.
Not surprisingly,just like Earth had about 7 billion humans
Thera had about 6.75 billion dragons.
So Thera was the Spiral Serpents answer to the
Milky Ways Earth.
A reptilian parallel universe Earth.
Just like 10 million years earlier humanitys ancestor
had been furred lemurs with opposable thumbs clinging to
the tree branches Thera had hosted a population of furred
lemurs with opposable thumbs clinging to the tree branches
10.25 million years earlier.The mammalian ancestor of
Theras current dragon species.
It was a Earth class planet,third planet from its star
also a Sol like star.
Then Reptillia-G had gone and done something the
Milky Ways Sol hadn't done,the star had gone supernova and
turned into a reptilian mutator star,a supernova whose
mutagenic rays reshaped the life forms on Thera into
a reptilian evolutionary tree.
And back 10.25 million years earlier that mutating rays the
lemurs were being soaked up in were doing more more
then merely rewriting a lemurs DNA into the DNA
of a small winged firebreathing lizard with horns and a lot of
other proto dragon ancestor features,but actually causing a physical
rapid change of the mutating lemurs .
In a matter of perhaps 2 weeks all of Thera's lemurs
had been replaced with the small winged egg laying
lizards.
The new beasties had lost their opposable thumbs
and ability to have mammalian live births with a placenta
but had now three taloned paws that featured the
serrated barbed gripping talon
a talon that too some extent could accomplish the same
things as a opposable thumb.
And since the mutated proto dragons now laid three lizard
eggs at a time,just like Amanda did now
the increased hatchings offset the immediate population crash to some extent.
And that's how it all began for the dragons.