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// Entry #28 
// Story: Diary of a Dragon 
// by truekry 
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Best train ride of my life! I met another dragon!

Yesterday, on our third day on the train, we suddenly had to make a full stop. The train driver and the guards were running around outside in the snow and were suddenly at high alert. Then this orange dude busted into the royal cart and was talking three hundred miles per hour about something bit laying on the rails and so on.

So Shining decided to take a look and I joined him of course. This was the most exciting thing to happen after three days of boredom and I had nothing better to do. Shining suited up in his snow gear, that was stored in the luggage cart behind ours. I didn't need something like that, my inner flame was no match for a little snow.

We exited the train and with some guards at our side we made for the front of the train. I think I was the first one to notice. Dragon smell, badly. Well, wild dragons do. Nut I think that has something to do with territory. How I know that? Now comes the best part. In front of our train laid a massive dragon. A female dragon. Don't ask me how I knew, but I could tell the moment I saw her. Her eyes were closed and her right wing didn't looked good at all. It was at least broken. An suddenly all eyes were on me. All the ponies just expected me to go up to her and ask what was wrong. Well, I did exactly that.

She was nice.

Her name is Esmeralda, and she lived in this mountains for a few thousand years now. She fought with a another dragon for this territory and won, but the battle left her badly wounded. She tried to reach her cave, but crashed down half way. She walked a few miles and found the rails. Esmeralda was a proud dragon, but she wasn't stupid. She would take help, even from ponies. Shining told her that the one in charge was in the train and he would get her. A minute later Cadance and Sweetie joined us. Esmeralda just looked at Sweetie and asked me if she was my mate. She could smell me on her. She asked more about me, my parents and my upbringing. I told her what I knew and from my journey to the dragon lands a few years back. But at some point it was time to move her of the rails.

She is now sleeping on the roof of our cart. Cadance decided to help her and take her with us to the empire. All the gems in the royal cart, mostly used for decoration, were dismounted to fed her.

I still can't believe it. I now have a dragon who I can ask all the things I always wanted to know about my kind. This is so exiting!