The sounds that were coming out of Silver's mouth might have sounded scary to anyone who did not know a thing about dragons, but they were really childish shouts of joy as she played around with the water, chasing fish and, diving in and out of the deep ends. She was so into her fun that she did not hear the sound of someone else diving in. Her first reaction would have been to freeze in spot, or perhaps to take flight. As it were, she continued to play not even noticing someone staring right at her. It was several more minutes until her nostrils picked up the unusual smell of human. She knew the smell well because she often got as close to the village as she could and those humans had a large variety of scents.
She narrowed her eyes, and sniffed, spinning in the water and looking around her. It did not take long for her to notice the fully dressed human not but a wings length away from her. Fiery fear filled the bit of her stomach. She had been seen! Would the human try and hunt her as a lot of her fellow dragons had been? Humans assumed all dragons were evil, and had no idea that some of them held dearly to their human half. Silver did especially. She loved the freedom that came with being a dragon. She could do most anything, play and have fun, but there was always a fear of being caught and hunted down, so a large part of wanted to live as a human did.
She was too young to die.
Her birth had only been one hundred years ago, for crying out loud! She was still seen as a baby to most of her kind. Silver didn't think she was a baby in human terms though. When she changed into her other form, it was not that of a youngling child, but of a teenager, maybe even a young woman. Silver didn't really know. All she knew was that her human form was not short, but not tall either; she didn't have anything to compare it to. Her body was slender, but becoming mature, based on the humans she had spied on in the village.
'What should I do?' She wondered to herself. 'Maybe I should speak to him? But then that will give away my intelligence.'
Perhaps giving away her intelligence was a good thing?
'But if I speak to him, my way of speaking might scare him!'
Silver was at a loss, and she was scared, though in the end, she realized her only choice was to reach out to the human, so that he wouldn't do anything that would cause her harm.
//Human... boy?//
Silver still had trouble telling human male from females just based on their outward looks, especially when they had clothes on.
//Please, let me go. Don't hurt me.// She shivered, her scales making clinking sounds. Too scared to move, she just stayed in the water.