"Who's there?" answered a melodic voice.

"I am Qualt Ironhorns and I am here to ask you some questions?"

"What kind? And why us?"

"Because you live is in front of a crime scene."

There was a long silence before someone unlocked the door and opened it. That someone was a fresh blood red dragon. He was, I think you got it, the owner of the beautiful voice.

"A crime scene?"

"Yes. The Gald's children has been murdered this night."

"Oh..."

"Hulrich? Who is it?" said suddenly a deeper voice.

"It's a... It's a detective, Sonia."

"Detective? For what?"

"Your neighbour's children have their throat out of their body by surely a dragon or a dragoness, ma'am", answered Qualt. "And I am here to ask you some question about that night. Can I enter?"

"Oh! Yes! Yes! Please get in! May I give you something to eat or to drink?" said Hulrich.

"No, that will be good. I want it to be as quick as possible... but your witness as complete as possible."

"Oh... Okay, then…"

They moved to a big room, fully decorated. It was stinking vanity. But the atmosphere's smell was alright and quite relaxing. Once Qualt arrived, he finally saw Sonia Fiz. She was a white dragoness, as white as one of the two moons when she is full.

"So..." began Ironhorns after sitting down and getting his note book out. "What were you doing last night?"

The two looked at each other and, if dragons could blush, I assure you they would have been as red as Hulrich at this moment. No need for words, for that question. So Qualt wrote their... physical activity during that night.

"Right... So, if you were up that night, have you seen something... strange in front of your house? Like a dragon entering without a sound into the Gald's house?"

"Hmmm... Yeah, I think I saw something", answered Sonia.

"Oh? What?"

"I saw... Let me remember... Ah, yes, I have it: it was a draconic form but he or she was wearing dark clothes... He or she even had a hood on the head. The clothes were completely all over his or her body."

"Okay..." said Qualt in a low voice while noting the informations. "Other question, who do you think would have killed those children? Who, do you think, has reasons to do that kind of thing?"

"What do you mean?" answered the two.

"By knowing the Gald Family, do you think that, at least, one of them have enemies for what happened? And, if yes, who?"

"The children, I don't think... But, the two heads of the family, I think that they have more than they think. Those two are so gullible..." spat Hulrich.

"Gullible?"

"Yeah! Why do you think that they are considered as good persons and friends with everybody in the zone. They are used by everybody!"

"Even you?"

"Yeah, and? I even don't need to ask him, sometimes!"

"Just like the thing that happened right after your wedding?"

"Yyyyyeeeeaaah... I see that he may have told you the story."

"Indeed."

"So, you see? He is naive and his wife is like him."

"I see... But, if they are used by everybody... why would their children be killed? It's not logical! Why would they kill children of dragons that help them?!"

"I don't know! I am only myself, not the others! If someone killed them, I don't know who and why!"

"I see... But, outside the zone, do you think that they have enemies?"

"Hmmm... I think I can see one or two."

"Ah? Tell me, then."

"First of all, you have this rival that Pold has in literature..."

"And what's his name?"

"I don't remember well... I think it is something like Ylt... Milt... Pilt... Dilt... Ah, yes, Dilt, I got it."

"Okay... And what's his full name?"

"I only remember Dilt."

"Oh..."

"But I don't think that it would be him: he is a pacifist and violence makes him sick, if I remember what they say."

"I see."

"Next, you have the lover of Frey."

"The... Oh, okay... So, what's..."

"He is even blind on what his wife does!"

"So... what's the name of this lover?"

"I don't remember..."

"Oh! You don't remember?" said Sonia. "But it's my brother Henry!"

"So... Henry Yalt... Okay. But do you think that he would have committed a crime like that? And why would he kill his mistress' children?"

"Because she broke up with him!"

"Broke up? She wasn't married at Pold?"

"Yeah, she was. But she broke up with him because she feared that he would discover their relation. So he went a bit mad that his mistress left him and might have killed the children."

"I see..."

"He is however the shame of my family so that won't be a surprise if he did it!"

"Anybody else?"

"Maybe the gang that he fought some years ago... after my wedding", he said.

"But why the children and not the parents? And why now?"

"Because, you know... sadism, psychological destruction... And why now? I don't know, they maybe had other things to do before! And maybe because it was kinda difficult to access here."

"But one of the two victims was the child of the Gang's Head Yalto and his wife Gloria Tremorth!"

"Yeah, and? His is not their Head anymore and her wife is still in a mad house!"

"Well... she was kinda out some days ago, so..."

"What?! They didn't lock her for life? I think that the mad house is definitely for the ones that let her out..."

"So you think she might have killed them?"

"Yeah, for revenge."

"But her child..."

"And what, her child? She is crazy and dangerous! She could have killed her son to finish what she began before getting interned!"

"Yeah... I see what kind of point of view you have..."

"It's not a point of view, it's only the truth!"

"Anyway... Others?"

"I don't think so..."

"Maybe one last..." she answered. "You know that mole with whom Frey's working? Merth Altherio?"

"Indeed, Miss Fiz. But Frey Gald assured me that he was too coward even to pay a mercenary to do the nasty job."

"That is what they say!" she exclaimed. "I knew him since a very long time! He is my godfather, after all!"

"I see..."

"And, trust me, he maybe seems coward on the outside but it's a real crooked person inside, capable of doing everything to obtain his goal."

"Okay... So, if he is as crooked as you say, why would he kill the children of someone that he needs for his job?"

"Because, after what she did to him, I think I would probably took my revenge on her like what happened this night."

"And she did…?"

"Public humiliation."

"What? Killing only for that?"

"Don't under estimate the power of honour, here. In the 1st Class, the way we are seen by the others is really important and doing something like this is really serious!"

"Yeah... no. It's more like a thing that crazy peoples do, for me..."

"But he is crazy! I told you that he was a crooked person inside!"

"Yeah, maybe... It's funny how easily you're denouncing the members of your family, telling there are capable of doing that kind of murder..."

"Yeah, because I know them and because, even if it's my family, they are not me and, if they murder someone, it's their problem, not mine! And, if they murder someone, they are not what I call my family!"

Yeah, but they probably didn't murder the children at all... he thought. He sighed and got up before saying:

"Well, thank you for answering my questions. I hope that you told me the truth about what you saw."

"I swear it!" swore Sonia.

"Okay... I trust you here, for the moment. Well. I say you goodbye."

"Farewell, sir!" answered Hulrich. "And good luck on this case."

And so, Qualt Ironhorns got out of the Fiz house to continue the job they gave him that day...