Sariarda cocked her head astounded by the by the human in front of her. All of his companions were dead. His legs had most likely been broken by the first swipe of her tail. Yet he did not run. Did not beg for his miserable life. Instead he held his spear steadily, pointing it at her single good eye. If he hadn’t been a bandit, Sariarda would have thought him to be a slayer.<br/><br/>No.<br/><br/>A slayer would not stand still right in front of a red. Sariarda shrugged slightly before breathing a stream of fire that exploded into fiery cloud once it hit the bandit. The man screamed as he engulfed by the flames that quickly devoured his skin and his life. Smiling, Sariarda walked over to the man and started peeling of his armor. After a week of not eating she had scored a feast for herself.<br/><br/>Recently she had taken to hunting bandits for a living. She wouldn’t ask for a bounty promised for their lives, but she would eat them instead. She was quite proud of that idea. The bandits really were an ideal source of food: 1) No one would miss them. If she ate a shepherd or even cattle someone would sooner or later come after him, but bandits were care for less than pigs. 2) They were usually camped in the woods were no one would hear them scream or see her true form. Finding their camps from the air was no problem thanks to their campfires. 3) She preferred human meat to most animals, but as much as she would deny it, her conscience wouldn’t allow her to kill innocents. She had no problem devouring robbers who preyed upon helpless travelers.<br/><br/>She had only eaten two of the bandits when a roar echoed through the forest, and through her head. The roar sounded powerful, ancient, and primordial and imagining the beast that had made the sound caused the multi-ton beast that was Sariarda feel small. Insignificant.<br/><br/>I must find out more about this. Perhaps it was her stubborn pride and curiosity of a cat that was her inheritance as a red dragon, or perhaps it was something instinctive in the roar, but she decided to find its source.<br/><br/>After she had eaten.<br/>