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The dragon that kidnapped children

Usually orphanages have to deal with problems like not having enough finances to keep their children, dealing with so many of them at all, and most of all making them feel loved despite everything. It is rare to find an orphanage that has to deal with children being kidnapped. None of them had ever dealt with a dragon kidnapping them. The first time happened during a sunny spring day. The children were all in the playground after lunch, for one hour before their afternoon lessons, under the supervision of the nuns who took care of their growth. They weren’t big children, for most of them, sooner or later, found a family who adopted them. There were some outliers, though: boys and girls who were ten, twelve, sometimes even fourteen, for whom nobody had ever come. Kids whose only fault was having some disability, or not having a skin light enough. Despite the nuns doing their best to convince someone to give them a lovely home, they had remained in that institute, and now they’d be too