We'll never know what happened next in the village,since by dawn the
village was a charred heap of smashed burnt buildings and no human who witnessed
the knucker dragoness's rebirth lived to tell the tale.
Dame Alessa herself had been poisoned and paralyzed by the monsters
venomous saliva,and remembered nothing of the previous nights events.
All she knew was she woke up nude in a clearing in the swamp,with Nicola
facing away from her ,her head in her hands,in mute shock.
Dame Alessa could feel something inside her brain,her bones,her muscles
her heart and lungs that writhed wriggled and squirmed yet could not be
felt when Dame Alessa put her hands to her belly,where she thought the feeling had been last.
Nicola said in a low voice " The human race is in deep trouble.Its a good thing
you and I aren't a part of it anymore"
Dame Alessa noticed that whenever a stray beam of Sunlight
fell on her ,Nicola shudder and her backbone seemed to bulge
under her skin.
Dame Alessa wanted to go to her lover,but some inner voice held
her back,away from the sunlight.
Alessa then realized both she and Nicola were resting of ground sheets of some
sort.As she examined the sheet she sat on more closely,she realized in horror
it was covered in scales,like the discarded skin a snake would cast off
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Nicola of course was way ahead of Dame Alessa on understanding what was going
on.
One doozy of a nasty knucker dragon spirit had entered her body last night,made use
of the Power within her to remake her into a knucker herself,and afterwards,when
it had forced her to mature into knucker adulthood,it knew she could be the Mother of a
reborn knucker dragon race.
Dame Alessa was her firstborn .
They'd destroyed the village,then flown for the swampy dark safety of
this place.The rays of the Sun had caused their knucker skins
to slip off and their knucker dragon bodies had dissipated like foul smelling
swamp gas.
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The two infected human lovers knew if they put their knucker skins back on
they'd turn back into the monstrous scaly knuckers that had destroyed the
village.
It seemed that their evil insides was deathly afraid of the Sunlight.
Which was why they were now resting in the darkened swamp.
It seemed obvious that come nightfall,the full power of the monstrousness
within them would emerge once again,and Nicola had a feeling there'd come
a time when the evil within them would completely consume them,and
they'd stay knucker dragon monsters permanently,sunlight or no.