Now young Danyfir wqw deathly scared of girldragons,and the other guys
knew that.
They'd also been attending one of Miss Charnipps
lectures a week or two back when Danyfir had been off playing hookey
The lecture had been about the possible origins of their race long long
ago,when their feral huge four footed ancestors had suddenly taking
to walking upright,becomming more slender and more like the ape-men .
Miss Charnipps had gone onto to describing some of the roles of the
"Change Caves" where their four footed feral ancestors had fed a host at times of
peril to be changed in gender or other features.
She'd gone on to describe how when adult females sometimes were wiped out
in harsh winters and meteor showers,some young infant/juvenile female feral
dragon would be sealed up in a Change Cave magicked for that purpose,and the stored magics
in the stones would cause a rapid change of the female into a fertile adult dragoness
ready to carry on the dutues of her departed sisterhood in egglaying,etc.
A lesson Danyfir had only recently learned about.
So the other boys decided to play a joke on Danyfir.They'd found a hidden cave,
and told him "maybe its a Girls Change Cave " and taunted and dared
him to enter it and see if he came out himself.
Danyfir wasn't too eager to take up the bet,so the boy who led the gang
said he'd go in first,if Danyfir was such as sissy.
So they all trooped off away from the teacher and her class and approached
the newly discovered cave.
Which looked pretty inactive and devoid of magick.
True to his word,the leader of the gang went in and the stone block was rolled in place
to seal him in.
He sounded nervous as he chatted back to the group outside,but nothing happened
and a half hour later the kids rolled back the stone and the leader
bolted out.
Reassured,Danyfir went in and the kids blocked up the cave entrance again.
What they didn't notice was that a piece of rock had broken loose somewhere
along the way and now lay as a hidden wedge holding the heavy rolling stone
blocking the cave entrance.
Naturally Danyfir was not as brave as the leader and only after 5 minutes in the
dimly illuminated cave though he felt his muscles twinge and his skin itch
and his teeth ache.
"Let me out" he screeched ,but the others said "yeah right"
and ignored his panicky voice.
Danyfir calmed down,and realized it had just been water dripping on him from
above.
However he had 2 more freak out panic attacks,false alarms,and the guys
decided nothing was going to happen,and they'd let him stay there for the next 3 hours
So they headed off to spear tadpoles in a nearby creek and left
Danyfir to whimper in the sealed cave...