Today, I'd like to introduce you to Dr. Frederick Radcliffe, a dragon masquerading as a human. Dr. Radcliffe makes his first appearance in Dragons Walk Among Us as, to all appearances, a slightly avuncular professor specializing in medieval history. Eventually, Allison discovers Radcliffe's secret. This enigmatic character reappears in The Blood of Faeries and continues his fraught relationship with Allison in The Wrath of Monsters.
Where were you born?
I was born a long time ago, far away from here.
What is your dream job?
My current job as the Director of the U.N. Draconic Task Force is my dream job. I have found my passion in helping humanity establish mutually beneficial and sustainable relations with dragons and other alien species, as well as in advancing planetary defense through research in combining magic with technology.
I also take great pride in helping humanity deal with magic, especially humans who discover they are magicians. I want human magicians to be accepted in society, and I want those magicians to understand their responsibility to use their power for the betterment of everyone.
I love this work and hope to continue it for many years.
What is your favorite food?
As you can imagine, my dietary requirements differ vastly from those of humans. I do not eat often by human standards, only about once a month. But when I do, I eat meat raw or charred by dragon fire.
Oh? You have seen me eating on television? Drinking water? Well, yes, I do. What you see before you, my human form, is a construct sustained by my magic. It does not need food but it can consume food. I only do so to put you humans at ease on occasion. What this body consumes does not sustain my true form, my draconic form.
How do you spend a Saturday night?
When not occupied with official duties, I will contact my fellow dragons here on Earth, Tanis and Mauve. Our duties often mean we are not together, so we do a video chat. We reminisce about home. Of those we have lost. Poor Mauve was the equivalent of an infant when she fled our home with me. Her parents were my followers. I saved her to keep a promise to them.
It is sad, really. All Mauve knows of our kind and her parents are what Tanis, I, and those poor dragons we have lost here on Earth have taught her.
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