"It's all rather difficult to explain. But I've been practicing. I still have trouble with the changing back part." She kicked lightly at the dirt, ashamed to be indebted to a human like this. Era's appreciation was a mumbled, "Thank you." It was already starting to get to her that Penny now had this power over her. It made her long for the freedom of the skies above.
But she couldn't think the worst of Penny - not when the girl was wishing her well and hoping she got better. "I hope so too. I do not like being hurt." The dragon glared at her arm as though it offended her.
Now that she had someone to talk to, however, she was determined to ask all the questions that had been boiling up inside her since she first transformed. "Is it always so complicated to be a human? And walking on two legs, surely I'm not the only one who finds it unstable. And buildings - I never knew they were so big on the inside!"