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07:08and Sienna walked out in a red dress
07:11red feathers lined the hem
07:13Finn's tail feathers
07:14the feathers a phoenix only plucks
07:17for someone they love
07:19so that was why he'd rushed me out of the house last week
07:22he didn't want me seeing him make her a dress
07:25he'd pulled his own feathers
07:27the most sacred part of a phoenix's body
07:30just to get the color right for her
07:32he didn't come to my ceremony because of Sienna
07:35all those years
07:37every glance Finn ever threw across a room
07:41always landed on her
07:42even agreeing to bond with me
07:44I finally understood that too
07:46it was just a reflex
07:48a moment of wounded pride
07:50after she chose the dragon instead of him
07:53Samara, they were right
07:54every bit of this was you lying to yourself
07:57I made up my mind
07:58I would dissolve the bond before it was complete
08:01I wasn't going to wait around to be discarded with an audience
08:05I started looking for an available beast man
08:07anyone willing to bond with me before my birthday
08:10I finally tracked down Riven
08:12a low rank lizard in the outer territory
08:14and he agreed
08:15I ran home
08:16told Finn
08:18he didn't look relieved
08:19he looked furious
08:22Samara
08:23Samara
08:24you're serious?
08:26you'd bond with that low rank lizard
08:28instead of me?
08:31I didn't show up that day
08:32but I had a reason
08:33you saw-
08:34I stopped listening
08:35I already knew the reason
08:37Sienna's ceremony was approaching
08:39he was busy
08:40too busy for me
08:41never too busy for her
08:43because of my face
08:44because I was the ugly one
08:46because apparently
08:47being born with a birthmark
08:49means I deserved
08:50to be stood up
08:51mocked in public
08:53and made to feel grateful for scraps
08:55I closed my eyes
08:56yes Finn
08:59I'm bonding with Riven
09:02fine Samara
09:03don't come crawling back
09:04he said it like
09:06I was the one abandoning him
09:07I genuinely
09:08could not locate his logic
09:10I had no time to figure it out
09:13my birthday was three days away
09:15the next morning
09:15I went to find Riven
09:17somehow he'd changed his mind overnight
09:19apparently someone had introduced him to a girl last night
09:23and they'd already scheduled their ceremony for that afternoon
09:26you think I would take someone else's reject?
09:30then closed his door in my face
09:33I stood there
09:34lifted my hand to knock again
09:35let it fall
09:36people like me aren't meant to survive in a world like this
09:39if I had maybe three days left alive
09:42fine
09:42I was going to spend them eating well
09:44I walked to Mayfair Garden Cafe
09:46the expensive coffee house
09:48I'd never dared enter before
09:50and ordered everything that looked good
09:52I was halfway through a plate of honey cake
09:54when I caught the conversation behind me
09:56heard the phoenix is giving Sienna
09:58the thousand year heartwood?
09:59the one with healing properties?
10:01healing?
10:02if it can heal
10:03why didn't Finn use it years ago
10:04on Samara's face?
10:06oh wait
10:07obviously because Sienna matters
10:09Samara never did
10:11he had a cure
10:12he had a cure for my birthmark
10:14he watched me get beaten
10:17ridiculed
10:17spat on my entire life
10:20and he had the antidote in his pocket
10:22he chose to give it to Sienna as a backup plan
10:25instead of giving it to me
10:27tears ran down my face
10:29and I bit my lip until it bled
10:31to keep from making a sound
10:32tomorrow was my birthday
10:34I was going to die
10:35they would laugh at the way my body destroyed itself
10:38so I would not cry
10:39not tonight
10:40not where anyone could see
10:42I went home
10:43nowhere else to go in this world
10:45the house was blazing with light
10:47the crowd had packed the main hall
10:49shouting over each other
10:50Alaric
10:51Sienna's dragon
10:52the feral curse had taken hold
10:56without a completed bond to tether him
10:58Alaric wouldn't just hurt Sienna
11:00he'd tear through the entire city
11:02dragons and rogue state always did
11:05everyone was screaming at Sienna
11:07to go through with the bond immediately
11:08only Finn was standing in her way
11:10locking her
11:11keeping her back
11:12but Finn couldn't hold the crowd forever
11:15I looked at him one last time
11:16but Sienna sheltered behind his back
11:19like she was made of glass
11:20and walked to my room
11:21his footsteps came fast
11:23he threw open my door
11:24why was he here?
11:25his priority was right down the hall
11:27Samara
11:28you're the only one who can save her
11:30me?
11:31the dragon bonded with Sienna
11:33not me
11:34you and Sienna are identical
11:35except for the mark
11:36no one will know the difference
11:37I opened my mouth to ask
11:39how I was supposed to remove a birthmark
11:41on three seconds notice
11:42and then I remembered the conversation
11:45at Mayfair Garden
11:46he already knew
11:47Finn raised his hand
11:48his expression showed something
11:50I might have called regret
11:52but his arm was completely steady
11:54as it swung toward my throat
11:56Samara, I'm sorry
11:59but Sienna once saved my life
12:02I can't let her
12:03those were the last words I heard
12:05before the darkness took me
12:07Finn
12:07even now
12:08not one word about me
12:10I came back to consciousness
12:12in a moving carriage
12:13dressed in red
12:14Finn's dress
12:15the one he made for Sienna
12:20I almost laughed
12:21he worked so hard on it
12:23and it ended up on the wrong twin
12:25after all
12:26outside
12:27drums and horns
12:29the city celebrating
12:30they weren't celebrating
12:32the bonds in the room
12:33they were celebrating
12:34trading my life
12:35for their safety
12:36the altar was already in sight
12:38I didn't struggle
12:39I walked up the steps
12:41heard the crowd's murmur shift
12:43a single
12:44sharp inhale
12:45of surprise
12:45the kind of sound
12:47people make
12:47when they see something unexpected
12:49how funny
12:50I had heard people gasp
12:52at my face
12:52my whole life
12:53always in revulsion
12:54the one time
12:56they gasped
12:56in something else
12:57I was walking
12:58toward my own death
13:00my gaze
13:00found Finn
13:01at the base of the steps
13:02he stood very still
13:03staring up at me
13:05with an expression
13:05I couldn't read
13:06this is what you wanted
13:08Finn
13:08isn't it
13:08I looked away
13:09Alaric stood
13:10at the center
13:11of the altar
13:11radiating red light
13:13barely controlled
13:14his muscles
13:15looked like
13:16they were about
13:16to rip his clothes off
13:18his eyes were burning
13:19all animal
13:20no human
13:21but as soon as
13:22our eyes locked
13:23a flicker of blue light
13:25flashed in his eyes
13:26he got closer to me
13:27and cupped my face
13:29you are different
13:31the ceremony
13:32will now begin
13:35we exchanged the bond tokens
13:37blood on both sides
13:39the bond snapped into place
13:41the nightmare dimension
13:42opened instantly
13:43it swallowed us both
13:45I closed my eyes
13:46and waited to die
13:47when I opened my eyes again
13:49I was overtaken
13:51by the beauty
13:53not darkness
13:54not pain
13:56trees
13:56dense
13:57ancient
13:58green
13:59a stream so clear
14:01I could count the stones
14:02at the bottom
14:03a spotted deer
14:05drinking at the bank
14:06this wasn't what
14:07the nightmare dimension
14:08was supposed to look like
14:09and Alaric was gone
14:11I turned in a slow circle
14:13no dragon
14:14no hulking rogue state predator
14:17something cool brushed my ankle
14:20I looked down
14:21a tiny white snake
14:23transparent scales
14:25two small delicate horns
14:28catching the light
14:29everyone who'd ever studied
14:31beast man biology
14:32could recognize those horns
14:34Alaric
14:35reduced to his infant form
14:37small enough to fit in my palm
14:39as long as there was breath
14:41there was a way out
14:42I carried baby Alaric
14:44through the valley
14:47trying every technique I knew
14:50healing herbs
14:51binding chance
14:53energy redirection
14:54nothing worked
14:55he stayed small
14:56his red light pulsed faintly
14:58but never faded
14:59I gave up for the night
15:01and went foraging instead
15:04in the morning
15:05I woke up with something heavy
15:07on my chest
15:07baby Alaric had coiled himself
15:10on top of me
15:10at some point in the night
15:12and was fast asleep
15:13rising and falling
15:14with my breathing
15:16I picked him up
15:18by the scruff
15:20I don't know what you
15:21heard about mate binding
15:23but sleeping on top of people
15:25is generally considered
15:26a personal boundary violation
15:28he stared at me
15:29completely unapologetic
15:31his tail however
15:33slowly turned red
15:41his tiny horns
15:42flushed darker
15:43as I kept holding them
15:44I raised an eyebrow
15:45I spent the next 10 minutes
15:47poking his horns
15:48until he'd turned
15:49fully pink
15:50only then
15:50did I put him down
15:51satisfied
15:54I went back
15:54to trying to fix him
15:55nothing worked
15:56I pulled some leaves
15:57off a low branch
15:58and shredded them
15:59while I thought
16:00one leaf
16:01caught my skin
16:01blood welled
16:02from a clean slice
16:03across my fingertip
16:04before I could move
16:06Alaric flicked his tongue
16:07and licked the wound
16:08the bleeding stopped
16:10the cut started closing
16:11then he convulsed
16:13I scrambled for medicine
16:16useless
16:17because he was already growing
16:21the feral curse
16:23gone
16:23he was healed
16:25we could go home
16:27but he was also
16:29the most famous
16:30coldest
16:31most untouchable
16:32alpha
16:32in the territory
16:34and I had spent
16:35the last two days
16:36poking him
16:37and calling him
16:38a personal
16:39boundary violator
16:41I didn't get to figure out
16:42he'd already shifted
16:43back to human form
16:44and landed in front of me
16:46he was exactly
16:48as described
16:48sharp jaw
16:49cold eyes
16:50the kind of face
16:51that made people
16:52get out of his way
16:53before they knew why
16:56Samara
16:57are you familiar
16:58with a prophecy
16:59passed down
16:59through dragon bloodlines
17:02can't say I am
17:03only the goddess
17:04can break the curse
17:07that he knew
17:08my real name
17:08or what he was calling me
17:10I've examined
17:10the surrounding space
17:11this isn't
17:13the nightmare dimension
17:13it's a separate realm
17:15one that appears
17:16to belong to you
17:18I had a private dimension
17:21I
17:21Samara
17:22the uglier twin
17:23the spare
17:24the girl who couldn't
17:25get a lizard beast man
17:26to bond with her
17:27had a private dimension
17:30we returned to the city
17:31the streets
17:32stopped
17:33when they saw us
17:35I went straight
17:36to Finn's estate
17:38Alaric walked in
17:39beside me
17:41I looked at my sister
17:44Finn and Sienna
17:45were in the morning hall
17:46performing grief
17:47in front of the
17:48assembled guests
17:49Sienna
17:50the name on that
17:51banner is wrong
17:52the one who bonded
17:53with the dragon
17:54was me
17:54Samara
17:55not you
17:56prove it
17:57how do we know
17:58you're even Samara
17:59I smiled
18:00I raised my hand
18:03Sienna's birthmark
18:04the one she'd painted
18:06on her face
18:07to impersonate me
18:09dissolved
18:09I already knew
18:11she wouldn't have
18:12actually damaged
18:13herself
18:13she sent her own
18:14sister to die
18:15in her place
18:16how is Samara's face
18:20the heartwood
18:21Finn had it the whole time
18:28the feral curse
18:29it's lifted
18:31you can't possibly
18:32be walking around
18:32if it's not
18:33you tear this city apart
18:36the curse is gone Finn
18:39Samara cured it
18:42the entire room
18:43pivoted to look at me
18:44like a single organism
18:45Finn looked like
18:46he'd been hit
18:48Alaric you don't have
18:49to protect her
18:50I know my sister
18:54I'm not protecting her
18:56Samara is the goddess
18:58our bloodlines prophecy
18:59describes
19:00her blood neutralizes
19:01the feral curse
19:03Finn's hand
19:04tightened on Sienna's arm
19:06did you forget Finn
19:08your feral curse
19:09broke the same way
19:11Sienna who saved you
19:12that winter
19:14it was me
19:22I left that sentence
19:23in the middle of the room
19:24like a lit match
19:26and walked out
19:26with Alaric
19:27the best revelations
19:28are the ones
19:29you don't finish
19:30life in Alaric's estate
19:32was the best
19:3217 days
19:33of my entire existence
19:35food brought to me
19:36warm rooms
19:37no one spitting
19:38on the ground
19:39where I walked
19:39then the requests
19:41started coming
19:42word had spread
19:43a rogue beast man
19:44a firefox
19:45had been brought
19:46to the gates
19:47people wanted proof
19:48Alaric and I
19:49looked at each other
19:50perfect timing
19:51the crowd outside
19:52was enormous
19:52I walked to the firefox
19:54without hurrying
19:55ignoring the way
19:56his curse form
19:57snarled at me
19:58and drew a clean line
20:00across my palm
20:00a few drops of blood
20:02his throat
20:02he screamed
20:04and convulsed
20:05the crowd turned
20:06on me instantly
20:07she's a monster
20:08that birthmark
20:09was a sign
20:10all along
20:11she's poisoning him
20:12I don't answer
20:13I don't negotiate
20:14with panic
20:15Alaric stepped
20:16in front of me
20:17one look
20:17that was all he did
20:18one look at the crowd
20:20and every voice stopped
20:21I watched his back
20:22the width of his shoulders
20:24the steadiness
20:25of his stance
20:25and something warm
20:27cracked open
20:28in my chest
20:2817 years
20:30first time
20:31someone stepped
20:31in front of me
20:32the firefox
20:33stopped convulsing
20:34the red light faded
20:35he blinked
20:36calm
20:36recognizably himself
20:38the person who'd been
20:39loudest about poisoning him
20:40now looked like
20:41they might faint
20:42started moving
20:43through the crowd
20:44like a wave
20:45within a week
20:46my name was on
20:47every street
20:48in the city
20:48Sienna
20:49I heard
20:50hadn't left
20:50Finn's estate
20:51in days
20:52the neighborhood
20:52children had discovered
20:53she made an
20:54excellent moving target
20:56I was not sorry
20:57a servant announced
20:58a visitor one evening
20:59I already knew
21:00who it was
21:01before I reached
21:02the hall
21:02Sienna
21:03on her knees
21:04Samara
21:04tell them you went
21:05willingly
21:06please
21:06just issue
21:07a statement
21:08she was pale
21:09shaking
21:10still managing
21:11to make it sound
21:12like a command
21:12my voice came out
21:13very quiet
21:14give me one reason
21:16you watched them
21:17torment me for
21:1818 years
21:19and said nothing
21:20you knew I was
21:21the one who healed
21:22Finn
21:22and you let him
21:23fawn over you
21:24anyway
21:24and then you sent me
21:26to die
21:26in your place
21:27her mouth moved
21:29no sound came out
21:30she grabbed the hem
21:31of my sleeve
21:31and pulled like a child
21:33Alaric had her
21:34escorted out
21:35the moment he appeared
21:36in the doorway
21:36something in me
21:37simply gave
21:38the tears came
21:40without warning
21:40I couldn't stop them
21:42didn't try
21:42Alaric pulled me in
21:44without a word
21:45I cried so hard
21:46I couldn't breathe
21:4718 years of it
21:48finally out
21:49I woke up in bed
21:51Alaric was beside me
21:52asleep
21:52I remembered
21:53distantly
21:54grabbing his sleeve
21:55and refusing to let go
21:57as I passed out
21:58my face was on fire
21:59I had approximately
22:015 seconds
22:02to be mortified
22:03before a servant
22:04announced another visitor
22:05Finn
22:05he stood in the
22:07receiving room
22:07looking wrecked
22:08like he hadn't slept
22:09his eyes found my face
22:11and stayed there
22:12unblinking
22:12full of something painful
22:14Samara
22:15I'm so glad you're alive
22:16you have interesting
22:17timing Finn
22:18I'm only alive
22:19because you swapped
22:20me for Sienna
22:21so technically
22:22I have you to thank
22:23Samara
22:24every word you say
22:25right now
22:25is a blade
22:26good
22:27I turned to leave
22:28he caught my wrist
22:29Samara
22:29my old name
22:30the short version
22:31the one he'd used
22:32before he stopped
22:33seeing me
22:34I hadn't heard it
22:35in years
22:35Finn
22:36you didn't lose me
22:37you put me down
22:38a long time ago
22:39I'm the one
22:39who finally stopped
22:40waiting for you
22:41to pick me back up
22:42Finn and Sienna
22:43stayed away after that
22:44what they didn't
22:45stay away from
22:46was a scheme
22:48rumors spread
22:49a second goddess
22:50a second goddess
22:50had appeared
22:51one more generous
22:53than me
22:53no conditions
22:54no questions
22:56about character
22:57and apparently effective
22:58I sat in Alaric's garden
23:01eating candied plums
23:02and genuinely
23:04could not find it in me
23:05to care
23:06but I noticed something
23:08dead animals
23:09kept appearing
23:10outside the city walls
23:12strange variety
23:13wrong season
23:15Sienna
23:16if you actually
23:17had this ability
23:18you would have
23:19used it before tonight
23:20Alaric's people
23:21quietly investigated
23:23the count of dead
23:24animals matched
23:25the count of beastmen
23:26Sienna claimed
23:27to have healed
23:28exactly
23:30she'd been extracting
23:31beastman essence
23:32killing animals
23:34to fake a cure
23:36she was arrested
23:37within the week
23:38I went to see her
23:40before sentencing
23:40she was barely
23:42recognizable
23:43dirty
23:44small
23:45the careful
23:47performance
23:48of herself
23:48completely gone
23:51this is your fault
23:52Samara
23:53you sent Alaric
23:55after me
23:55I didn't
23:56but go on
23:58you
23:59you
23:59and your goddess
24:00title
24:01you ruined
24:01everything
24:03and Finn
24:03is throwing
24:04me out
24:06dissolving
24:06the bond
24:08he's leaving
24:09me to die
24:10I went still
24:11Sienna
24:12what you did
24:13to me
24:13that only hurt
24:15me
24:15what you did
24:16to those beastmen
24:17to this city
24:18that was bigger
24:18than both of us
24:19the reason you're
24:20here isn't me
24:21it's every choice
24:22you made when you
24:23thought nobody
24:23was watching
24:25she was still
24:26screaming when I
24:26left
24:27she died three
24:28days later
24:29I had her
24:30remains collected
24:32whatever she was
24:33to me at the end
24:33she was still
24:35the person I
24:35grew up beside
24:36then Finn
24:37appeared at the
24:38gate
24:38and every inch
24:39of him was glowing
24:40the feral curse
24:42taking hold
24:43he didn't ask
24:45for my blood
24:53before I lose
24:54myself completely
24:55let this feather
24:56find the person
24:57it belongs to
24:57I recognized it
24:59immediately
25:00Finn
25:01do you know
25:02what the last thing
25:02Sienna ever said
25:03to me to me was
25:05the lizard
25:05who rejected me
25:06you arranged that
25:08you sent someone
25:09to him the night
25:10before
25:10you made sure
25:11I had no options
25:13left so I'd have
25:14to stay within reach
25:15that night
25:16Alaric came to my room
25:17and set a dragon scale
25:18on my desk
25:19without a word
25:20I pushed it back
25:22three times
25:23his face went darker
25:24with each refusal
25:27I took the scale
25:30Alaric's estate
25:31was enormous
25:32I spent two weeks
25:33learning the layout
25:34and still opened
25:35the wrong door
25:35half the time
25:36one wrong door
25:37led me to a room
25:38full of dried flowers
25:39thousands of them
25:40every variety
25:41pressed
25:42labeled
25:43arranged in careful rows
25:44after my mother died
25:46I go out before dawn
25:47and pick whatever
25:48was for me
25:49then spend the hot
25:49part of the day
25:50hawking them
25:51in the market
25:52until one morning
25:53a house steward
25:54appeared
25:54and said his employer
25:55was very pleased
25:56with my work
25:57and wanted ten full
25:58baskets delivered daily
25:59I had never seen
26:00the employer's face
26:01it was Alaric
26:03I summoned him
26:04to the main hall
26:05that evening
26:06he stood in the center
26:07of them
26:07unsure what to do
26:09with his hands
26:09I didn't realize
26:10dragons had so many
26:11quirks
26:13sleeping on people's
26:14chests
26:15collecting flowers
26:16truly a complex
26:18inner life
26:18Alaric
26:19when we were little
26:20you used to follow me
26:21around and call me
26:22big sis
26:23I know I told you
26:24to stop once we
26:25were grown
26:26I lied
26:27I liked it
26:30I looked at him
26:32waiting
26:33he didn't move
26:34for a long
26:35agonizing moment
26:39big sis
26:40we'd met before Finn
26:41before any of this
26:42him for being born
26:43without dragon horns
26:44me for the mark
26:45on my face
26:45left in the mountains
26:46to survive or die
26:47he arrived after me
26:48so obviously
26:49I adopted him
26:49immediately
26:51we lived like that
26:52for years
26:52looking out
26:53for each other
26:54then his horns
26:55grew in
26:56his family came
26:57to collect him
26:58he didn't want to go
26:59they tied him up
27:00they told him
27:01if he fought it
27:02they'd come back
27:02and kill me
27:04he left to protect him
27:05he found me again
27:07years later
27:08in the market
27:10he was too afraid
27:11to approach
27:12afraid his presence
27:14would put me in danger
27:16so he bought
27:17all my flowers
27:18instead
27:19every single day
27:20at triple the market rate
27:23he agreed to bond
27:24with Sienna
27:24because he knew
27:25what Finn was planning
27:26he'd seen Finn
27:27watching Sienna
27:28he knew the swap
27:29was coming
27:30he let himself
27:31be exposed
27:32to the feral curse
27:33of my family
27:33to give me a way out
27:34his own family found out
27:36and took it from him
27:36an investment in keeping
27:37the dragon estate's power
27:38centralized in the younger side
27:40and he nearly died
27:42so did I
27:43and we both came out
27:44the other side
27:46I turned the dragon scale
27:47over in my hands
27:48a reverse scale
27:49I'd found out
27:50the most sensitive point
27:52on a dragon's body
27:53the thing they guard
27:54most carefully
27:55he'd given it to me
27:56in a panic
27:57terrified
27:58I'd changed my mind
27:59I pressed up on my toes
28:01and kissed his horn
28:03you absolute idiot
28:05I said smiling
28:06why didn't you just tell me
28:08he picked me up
28:10without any further discussion
28:11and carried me inside
28:13I learned that night
28:15thoroughly
28:16and at length
28:17that dragon horns
28:18are not
28:19in fact
28:19for casual affectionate kissing
28:24life after that was sweet
28:26genuinely
28:26embarrassingly sweet
28:29except for the bird
28:31the phoenix had started
28:32appearing in the tree
28:33outside my window
28:34wherever I went
28:35it followed
28:36said nothing
28:37just watched
28:39Finn had disappeared
28:41some said dead
28:42some said he'd left
28:43the territory entirely
28:44today was my bond
28:46ceremony with Alaric
28:47some stories end
28:49with a bang
28:49mine ended
28:51with a bird
28:51being firmly escorted
28:53off the property
28:55works for me
28:56and I'll see you next time
28:59I'll see you next time
28:59I'll see you next time
28:59I'll see you next time
29:00I'll see you next time
29:00I'll see you next time
29:01I'll see you next time
29:01شكرا
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