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Rechazando al Fénix, Domando al Dragón Drama Completo MEGA
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00:03On the night before my mating ceremony, my twin sister climbed into the bed of my beastmate, Finn.
00:09Now she can marry that monster in my place.
00:14As long as you're safe, my queen.
00:16I didn't know their swapping plan.
00:18In a world where spiritual beasts are gods, I am the lowest thing breathing.
00:23It's simple, but then Finn, the phoenix, rarest creature alive, chose me.
00:30I actually believed I was special to him.
00:33I wasn't.
00:34I only knew that until my sister Sienna's bonded dragon went rogue and lost control.
00:40Finn shoved me into the mind with that monster without blinking.
00:45Here's the thing.
00:47Sienna and I are identical twins.
00:49Identical, except for the mark on my face.
00:52I wasn't chosen.
00:53I was kept as a spare.
00:55In the spiritual beast world, every human must complete a bond before their 18th birthday, or their body tears itself
01:02apart from the inside.
01:04Sienna and I came into this world together.
01:06I was born with the mark.
01:08She was born a masterpiece.
01:10Every beastman in the territory fought to bond with her.
01:13And she chose the most dangerous one alive.
01:16Alaric.
01:17The dragon.
01:17The most powerful being in our realm.
01:21Beastmen carry a sickness called the Feral Curse.
01:24When it takes hold, they hunt their bonded by memory alone.
01:28Drag them into a shared nightmare.
01:30And torture them.
01:31I always knew Sienna would pick Alaric.
01:34Power calls to power.
01:35What I never saw coming was Finn choosing me.
01:39The day he announced our bond in front of the whole territory, I felt like I was drowning in honey.
01:45The air tasted sweet.
01:47Even the people who had spent years spitting on me blurred into background noise.
01:52I stopped hearing the insults.
01:54I forgot every ruse they'd left.
01:56I thought everything I'd survived was just the universe clearing the path to him.
02:02Except, he never touched me.
02:05He never showed me his true form.
02:07When a beastman reveals their animal form to their bonded, it means love, trust, everything.
02:13Finn never once shifted in my presence.
02:16I couldn't find a single feather in the entire house.
02:20I told myself it was just his nature.
02:22That he was private.
02:23Then one night, I stayed up until 3 a.m. collecting Morning Dew, his favorite.
02:29And carried it to his room like an idiot with a smile on my face.
02:33And I saw the flash of Scarlet.
02:35His true form.
02:36He was showing someone his true form.
02:39I stumbled through the door.
02:41That someone was my sister.
02:45The moment he saw me, Finn pulled his form back in, like a fist, closing around a secret.
02:51Sienna smiled.
02:53Soft.
02:54Unbothered.
02:54Like a cat who knows she owns the room.
02:58Samara, you know Finn and I grew up together.
03:00Revealing his true form animal side to me, it's not a big deal.
03:03My chest felt like concrete poured inside it.
03:07I kept my face very, very still.
03:10Right, I just came to...
03:11The dew I'd carried all night had already tipped and soaked the floor.
03:16I stood there, hands empty, useless.
03:19Finn looked at me once, cold, brief.
03:21Nothing urgent?
03:23Then go.
03:24I walked out with my head down.
03:26Sienna's voice followed me down the hall like smoke.
03:30Finn and I grew up together.
03:31But I met him first.
03:33I met him first, and nobody cares.
03:37That winter, I found Finn half dead in the forest while I was out cutting wood.
03:42Red light pulsed off every inch of him.
03:45A feral curse.
03:47He was losing control.
03:49Every survival instinct I had screamed at me to run.
03:52His eyes stopped me.
03:54There was something in them I recognized.
03:56The dirt and his fever patterns held him down through the worst nights.
04:00His body healed.
04:01The curse didn't lift.
04:03Then one day, Sienna visited.
04:05She told me to leave him to die in wind.
04:07He came back to himself.
04:09Powerful, radiant, healed.
04:11After that, he started showing up.
04:13At my place, at Sienna's.
04:15I thought he was paying a debt.
04:17He was.
04:18Just not to me.
04:19Ugh.
04:20I was so absorbed in the past memory that I forgot to see the front.
04:24When I looked up, I met the deathly gaze of Alaric.
04:29You do look exactly the same as your sister.
04:32Except.
04:35His fingers slowly traced my-
04:37Finn got busier by the day.
04:39Busier arranging Sienna's bond ceremony with Alaric.
04:42I knew I should be grateful.
04:44I knew a bond at all was more than I deserved by this world's standards.
04:48But hearing about Sienna's ceremony, the flowers, the guests, the spectacle,
04:54something pathetic inside me started imagining my own.
04:57I thought, fine, I'll plan it myself.
05:00I spent everything I had.
05:02Literally everything.
05:03I bought a young firebird nest tree.
05:05The rarest thing Fing could want as a bond token.
05:09And gathered armfuls of his favorite blooms.
05:11I showed up on the appointed day.
05:13I stood at the bond altar from sunrise.
05:15He never came.
05:17The crowd that gathered grew larger the longer I waited.
05:20Not to support me, but to watch.
05:23The flowers in my arms had died.
05:25I kept my chin down and my eyes on the ground.
05:29How could the phoenix ever want someone that ugly?
05:32He was obviously playing her.
05:34She's the only one who didn't know.
05:35Any other day, I would have put my fist through the face of whoever said that.
05:40Today, I just pushed through the crowd.
05:42Silent.
05:43Trying not to drown.
05:44Someone shoved me from behind.
05:46I hit the ground hard.
05:47But I caught this.
05:48Shattered.
05:49I walked home.
05:50And heard Sienna's voice floating out of Finn's room.
05:54Bright.
05:54Delighted.
05:55Finn.
05:56This dress is beautiful.
05:58You actually made this with your own hands?
06:00Sienna.
06:01As long as you like it.
06:03Finn's voice was as flat as always.
06:05But the upward curl at the end?
06:07That's small.
06:08Little feathers.
06:09The feathers a phoenix only plucks for someone they love.
06:13Phoenix's body.
06:14Just to get the color right for her.
06:17He didn't come to my ceremony because of Sienna.
06:19All those years.
06:21Every glance Finn ever threw across a room always landed on her.
06:26Even agreeing to bond with me.
06:28I finally understood that too.
06:30It was just a reflex.
06:32A moment of wounded pride after she chose the dragon instead of him.
06:37Samara.
06:38They were right.
06:38Every bit of this was you lying to yourself.
06:41I made up my mind.
06:42I would dissolve the bond before it was complete.
06:45I wasn't going to wait around to be discarded with an audience.
06:49I started looking for an available beast man.
06:51Anyone willing to bond with me before my birthday.
06:54I finally tracked down Riven.
06:56A low rank lizard in the outer territory.
06:59And he agreed.
07:00I ran home.
07:01Told Finn.
07:02He didn't look relieved.
07:03He looked furious.
07:06Samara.
07:08You're serious?
07:10You'd bond with that low rank lizard instead of me?
07:15I didn't show up that day but I had a reason.
07:17You saw-
07:18I stopped listening.
07:19I already knew the reason.
07:21Sienna's ceremony was approaching.
07:23He was busy.
07:24Too busy for me.
07:25Never too busy for her.
07:27Because of my face.
07:28Because I was the ugly one.
07:30Because apparently being born with a birthmark
07:33means I deserve to be stood up,
07:35mocked in public,
07:36and made to feel grateful for scraps.
07:39I closed my eyes.
07:41Yes, Finn.
07:43I'm bonding with Riven.
07:46Fine, Samara.
07:47Don't come crawling back.
07:48He said it like I was the one abandoning him.
07:51I genuinely could not locate his logic.
07:54I had no time to figure it out.
07:57My birthday was three days away.
07:59The next morning, I went to find Riven.
08:01Somehow, he'd changed his mind overnight.
08:04Apparently, someone had introduced him to a girl last night,
08:07and they'd already scheduled their ceremony for that afternoon.
08:10You think I would take someone else's reject?
08:14Then closed his door in my face.
08:17I stood there, lifted my hand to knock again,
08:19let it fall.
08:20People like me aren't meant to survive in a world like this.
08:23If I had maybe three days left alive,
08:26fine, I was going to spend them eating well.
08:28I walked to Mayfair Garden Cafe,
08:31the expensive coffee house I'd never dared enter before,
08:34and ordered everything that looked good.
08:36I was halfway through a plate of honey cake
08:38when I caught the conversation behind me.
08:40I heard the phoenix is giving Sienna the thousand-year heartwood,
08:43the one with healing properties.
08:45Healing?
08:46If it can heal,
08:47why didn't Finn use it years ago on Samara's face?
08:50Oh, wait.
08:51Obviously, because Sienna matters.
08:54Samara never did.
08:55He had a cure.
08:56He had a cure for my birthmark.
08:58He watched me get beaten,
09:01ridiculed,
09:02spat on my entire life,
09:03and he had the antidote in his pocket.
09:06He chose to give it to Sienna as a backup plan,
09:09instead of giving it to me.
09:11Tears ran down my face,
09:13and I bit my lip until it bled,
09:15to keep from making a sound.
09:16Tomorrow was my birthday.
09:18I was going to die.
09:19They would laugh at the way my body destroyed itself,
09:22so I would not cry.
09:23Not tonight.
09:24Not where anyone could see.
09:26I went home,
09:27nowhere else to go in this world.
09:29The house was blazing with light.
09:31The crowd had packed the main hall,
09:33shouting over each other.
09:34Alaric,
09:35Sienna's dragon,
09:36they had a hole in him.
09:38The feral curse had taken home.
09:40Without a completed bond to tether him,
09:42Alaric wouldn't just hurt Sienna.
09:44He'd tear through the entire city.
09:46Dragons and rogues stayed always dead.
09:49Everyone was screaming at Sienna
09:50to go through with the bond immediately.
09:52Only Finn was standing in her way,
09:54blocking her,
09:55keeping her back.
09:56But Finn couldn't hold the crowd forever.
09:58I looked at him one last time,
10:00at Sienna sheltered behind his back
10:03like she was made of glass,
10:04and walked to my room.
10:05His footsteps came fast.
10:07He threw open my door.
10:08Why was he here?
10:09His priority was right down the hall.
10:11Samara,
10:12you're the only one who can save her.
10:14Me?
10:15The dragon bonded with Sienna,
10:17not me.
10:17You and Sienna are identical,
10:19except for the mark.
10:20No one will know the difference.
10:21I opened my mouth to ask
10:23how I was supposed to remove a birthmark
10:25on three seconds notice.
10:26And then I remembered the conversation
10:28at Mayfair Garden.
10:30He already knew.
10:31Finn raised his hand.
10:32His expression showed something
10:34I might have called regret,
10:36but his arm was completely steady
10:38as it swung toward my throat.
10:40Samara,
10:40I'm sorry,
10:43but Sienna once saved my life.
10:46I can't let her-
10:47Those were the last words I heard
10:49before the darkness took me.
10:51Finn,
10:51even now,
10:52not one word about me.
10:54I came back to consciousness
10:55in a moving carriage,
10:57dressed in red.
10:58Finn's dress.
10:59The one he made for Sienna.
11:03They weren't celebrating
11:05the lawn ceremony.
11:06They were celebrating
11:07trading my life
11:08for their safety.
11:09The altar was already in sight.
11:11I didn't struggle.
11:12I walked up the steps,
11:14heard the crowd's murmur shift.
11:16A single,
11:17sharp inhale of surprise.
11:19The kind of sound people make
11:20when they see something unexpected.
11:22How funny.
11:23I had heard people gasp
11:24at my face my whole life,
11:26always in revulsion.
11:28The one time they gasped
11:29in something else,
11:31I was walking toward my own death.
11:33My gaze found Finn
11:34at the base of the steps.
11:35He stood very still,
11:37staring up at me
11:38with an expression
11:39I couldn't read.
11:40This is what you wanted, Finn,
11:41isn't it?
11:42I looked away.
11:43Alaric stood at the center
11:44of the altar,
11:45radiating red light,
11:46barely controlled.
11:48His muscles looked like
11:49they were about to rip
11:50his clothes off.
11:51His eyes were burning.
11:53All animal,
11:54no human.
11:55But as soon as our eyes locked,
11:56a flicker of blue light
11:58flashed in his eyes.
11:59He got closer to me
12:01and cupped my face.
12:02You are different.
12:04The ceremony
12:06will now begin!
12:09We exchanged the bond tokens,
12:11blood on both sides.
12:12The bond snapped into place.
12:14The nightmare dimension
12:15opened instantly.
12:17It swallowed us.
12:17Not darkness.
12:19Not pain.
12:20Trees.
12:21Dense.
12:21Ancient.
12:22Green.
12:23A stream so clear
12:25I could count the stones
12:26at the bottom.
12:27A spotted deer
12:28drinking at the bank.
12:30This wasn't what
12:31the nightmare dimension
12:32was supposed to look like.
12:33And Alaric was gone.
12:35I turned in a slow circle.
12:37No dragon.
12:39No hulking rogue state predator.
12:42Something cool brushed my ankle.
12:43I looked down.
12:45A tiny white snake.
12:48Transparent scales.
12:50Two small delicate horns
12:52catching the light.
12:53Everyone who'd ever studied
12:55beast man biology
12:56could recognize those horns.
12:58Alaric.
12:59Reduced to his infant form.
13:01Small enough to fit in my palm.
13:04As long as there was breath,
13:05there was a way out.
13:06I carried baby Alaric
13:08through the valley.
13:11Trying every technique I knew.
13:14Healing herbs.
13:15Binding chance.
13:17Energy redirection.
13:18Nothing worked.
13:19He stayed small.
13:20His red light pulsed faintly
13:22but never faded.
13:23I gave up for the night
13:24and went foraging instead.
13:27In the morning,
13:29I woke up with something
13:30heavy on my chest.
13:32Baby Alaric had coiled himself
13:33on top of me
13:34at some point in the night
13:35and was fast asleep.
13:36Rising and falling
13:37with my breathing.
13:40I picked him up
13:41by the scruff.
13:44I don't know what you
13:45heard about mate binding
13:46but sleeping on top of people
13:49is generally considered
13:50a personal boundary violation.
13:52He stared at me
13:53completely unapologetic.
13:55His tail, however,
13:57slowly turned red.
14:04His tiny horns flushed darker
14:07as I kept holding them.
14:08I raised an eyebrow.
14:09I spent the next ten minutes
14:11poking his horns
14:12until he'd turned fully pink.
14:13Only then did I put him down.
14:15Satisfied.
14:17I went back to trying to fix him.
14:19I pulled some leaves off a low branch
14:22and shredded them while I thought.
14:23One leaf caught my skin.
14:25Blood welled from a clean slice
14:27across my fingertip.
14:28Before I could move,
14:29Alaric flicked his tongue
14:31and licked the wound.
14:32The bleeding stopped.
14:33The cut started closing.
14:35Then he convulsed.
14:36I scrambled for medicine.
14:39I scrambled for medicine.
14:39Useless.
14:40Because he was already growing.
14:44The feral curse.
14:46Gone.
14:47He was healed.
14:49We could go home.
14:51But he was also the most famous,
14:53coldest,
14:54most untouchable alpha
14:56in the territory.
14:57And I had spent the last two days
15:00poking him
15:01and calling him
15:02a personal boundary violator.
15:04I didn't get to figure out.
15:06He'd already shifted back
15:07to human form
15:08and landed in front of me.
15:10He was exactly as described.
15:12Sharp jaw.
15:13Cold eyes.
15:14The kind of face
15:15that made people get out of his way
15:16before they knew why.
15:19Samara.
15:21Are you familiar with a prophecy
15:22passed down through dragon bloodlines?
15:25Can't say I am.
15:26Only the goddess can break the curse.
15:30That he knew my real name
15:32or what he was calling me.
15:33I've examined the surrounding space.
15:35This isn't the nightmare dimension.
15:37It's a separate realm.
15:39One that appears to belong to you.
15:42I had a private dimension.
15:44I, Samara,
15:46the uglier twin,
15:47the spare,
15:48the girl who couldn't get
15:49a lizard beast man
15:50to bond with her,
15:51had a private dimension.
15:53We returned to the city.
15:55The streets stopped
15:56when they saw us.
15:58I went straight to Finn's estate.
16:01Alaric walked in beside me.
16:04I looked at my sister.
16:07Finn and Sienna were in the morning hall,
16:10performing grief
16:11in front of the assembled guests.
16:12Sienna,
16:13the name on that banner is wrong.
16:15The one who bonded with the dragon
16:17was me,
16:18Samara,
16:19not you.
16:20Prove it!
16:20How do we know
16:21you're even Samara?
16:22I smiled.
16:24I raised my hand.
16:26Sienna's birthmark,
16:28the one she'd painted
16:29on her face
16:30to impersonate me,
16:32dissolved.
16:32I already knew
16:34she wouldn't have
16:35actually damaged herself.
16:36She sent her own sister
16:38to die in her place.
16:39How is Samara's face?
16:43The heartwood.
16:45Finn had it the whole time.
16:51The feral curse.
16:52It's lifted?
16:53You can't possibly be walking around
16:55if it's not.
16:56You tear this city apart.
16:59The curse is gone, Finn.
17:02Samara cured it.
17:04The entire room
17:05pivoted to look at me
17:06like a single organism.
17:08Finn looked like he'd been hit.
17:11Alaric,
17:11you don't have to protect her.
17:13I know my sister.
17:17I'm not protecting her.
17:19Samara is the goddess
17:20our bloodline's prophecy describes.
17:22Her blood neutralizes
17:24the feral curse.
17:26Finn's hand tightened
17:27on Sienna's arm.
17:29Did you forget, Finn?
17:31Your feral curse
17:32broke the same way
17:33that Sienna who saved you
17:34that winter.
17:37It was me.
17:44I left that sentence
17:46in the middle of the room
17:47like a lit match
17:48and walked out with Alaric.
17:50The best revelations
17:51are the ones you don't finish.
17:53Life in Alaric's estate
17:54was the best
17:55seventeen days
17:56of my entire existence.
17:58Food brought to me.
17:59Warm rooms.
18:00No one spitting
18:01on the ground
18:01where I walked.
18:02Then the requests
18:03started coming.
18:04Word had spread.
18:05A rogue beast man,
18:07a fire fox,
18:08had been brought
18:09to the gates.
18:09People wanted proof.
18:11Alaric and I
18:11looked at each other.
18:12Perfect timing.
18:13The crowd outside
18:14was enormous.
18:15I walked to the list.
18:17The crowd turned
18:18on me instantly.
18:19She's a monster.
18:20That birthmark
18:21was a sign all along.
18:23She's poisoning him.
18:24I don't answer.
18:25I don't negotiate
18:26with panic.
18:27Alaric stepped
18:28in front of me.
18:29One look.
18:29That was all he did.
18:31One look at the crowd
18:32and every voice stopped.
18:33I watched his back,
18:35the width of his shoulders,
18:36the steadiness
18:37of his stance
18:37and something warm
18:39cracked open
18:40in my chest.
18:41Seventeen years.
18:42First time someone
18:43stepped in front of me.
18:44The fire fox
18:45stopped convulsing.
18:46The red light faded.
18:47He blinked,
18:48calm,
18:49recognizably himself.
18:50The person who'd been
18:51loudest about poisoning him
18:52now looked like
18:53they might faint.
18:54Goodness!
18:55Started moving
18:55through the crowd
18:56like a wave.
18:57Within a week,
18:58my name was on
18:59every street in the city.
19:00Sienna, I heard,
19:02hadn't left Finn's estate
19:03in days.
19:04The neighborhood children
19:05had discovered
19:05she made an excellent
19:07moving target.
19:08I was not sorry.
19:09A servant announced
19:10a visitor one evening.
19:11I already knew
19:12who it was
19:13before I reached the hall.
19:14Sienna,
19:15on her knees.
19:16Samara,
19:17tell them you went willingly.
19:18Please,
19:19just issue a statement.
19:20She was pale,
19:21shaking,
19:22still managing
19:22to make it sound
19:23like a command.
19:24My voice came out
19:25very quiet.
19:26Give me one reason.
19:27You watched them
19:29torment me
19:29for 18 years
19:30and said nothing.
19:32You knew I was
19:33the one who healed Finn
19:34and you let him
19:35fawn over you anyway.
19:36And then you sent me
19:37to die in your place.
19:39Her mouth moved.
19:40No sound came out.
19:42She grabbed the hem
19:43of my sleeve
19:43and pulled like a child.
19:45Alaric had her
19:46escorted out.
19:47The moment he appeared
19:48in the doorway,
19:49something in me
19:49simply gave.
19:50The tears came
19:51without warning.
19:52I couldn't stop them.
19:54Didn't try.
19:54Alaric pulled me in
19:55without a word.
19:56I cried so hard
19:57I couldn't breathe.
19:5818 years of it
20:00finally out.
20:01I woke up in bed.
20:02Alaric was beside me,
20:04asleep.
20:04I remembered,
20:05distantly,
20:06grabbing his sleeve
20:07and refusing to let go
20:08as I passed out.
20:09My face was on fire.
20:11I had approximately
20:125 seconds
20:13to be mortified
20:14before a servant
20:15announced another visitor.
20:17Finn!
20:17He stood in the receiving room,
20:19looking wrecked,
20:20like he hadn't slept.
20:21His eyes found my face
20:22and stayed there,
20:23unblinking,
20:24full of something painful.
20:26Samara,
20:26I'm so glad you're alive.
20:28You have interesting
20:29timing, Finn.
20:30I'm only alive
20:30because you swapped
20:31me for Sienna.
20:32So technically,
20:33I have you to thank?
20:34Samara,
20:35every word you say
20:36right now
20:37is a blade.
20:38Good.
20:38I turned to leave.
20:39He caught my wrist.
20:40Mara.
20:41My old name,
20:42the short version,
20:43the one he'd used
20:44before he stopped
20:44seeing me.
20:45I hadn't heard it
20:46in years.
20:47Finn,
20:47you didn't lose me.
20:48You put me down.
20:49Finn and Sienna
20:49stayed away after that.
20:51What they didn't
20:52stay away from
20:53was a scheme.
20:55Rumors spread.
20:56A second goddess
20:57had appeared.
20:58One more gen-
20:59and genuinely
21:00could not find it
21:01in me to care.
21:02But I noticed something.
21:05Dead animals
21:06kept appearing
21:07outside the city walls.
21:08Strange variety.
21:10Wrong season.
21:12Sienna,
21:13if you actually
21:13had this ability,
21:14you would have
21:15used it before tonight.
21:17Alaric's people
21:18quietly investigated.
21:19The count of dead animals
21:21matched the count
21:22of beast men
21:22Sienna claimed
21:23to have healed.
21:24Exactly.
21:26She'd been extracting
21:27beast man essence.
21:29Killing animals
21:30to fake a cure.
21:32She was arrested
21:33within the week.
21:34I went to see her
21:36before sentencing.
21:37She was barely recognizable.
21:40Dirty.
21:41Small.
21:42The careful performance
21:44of herself
21:44completely gone.
21:47This is your fault,
21:49Samara.
21:49You sent Alaric
21:51after me.
21:52I didn't.
21:53But go on.
21:54You,
21:55you and your goddess title,
21:57you ruined everything.
21:59And Finn
21:59is throwing me out.
22:01Screaming when I left.
22:02She died three days later.
22:04I had her remains collected.
22:06Whatever she was
22:08to me at the end,
22:09she was still
22:10the person
22:10I grew up beside.
22:12Then Finn
22:12appeared at the gate
22:13and every inch
22:14of him was glowing.
22:16The feral curse
22:17taking hold.
22:18He didn't ask
22:20for my blood.
22:28Before I lose
22:29myself completely,
22:30let this feather
22:31find the person
22:32it belongs to.
22:33I recognized it
22:34immediately.
22:35Finn,
22:36do you know
22:37what the last thing
22:37Sienna ever said
22:38to me to me was?
22:39The lizard
22:40who rejected me?
22:42You arranged that.
22:43You sent someone
22:44to him the night before.
22:45You made sure
22:46I had no options left
22:48so I'd have to stay
22:49within reach.
22:50That night,
22:51Alaric came to my room
22:52and set a dragon scale
22:53on my desk
22:54without a word.
22:55I pushed it back
22:56three times.
22:58His face went darker
22:59with each refusal.
23:01I took the scale.
23:05Alaric's estate
23:06was enormous.
23:07I spent two weeks
23:08learning the layout
23:09and still opened
23:09the wrong door
23:10half the time.
23:11One wrong door
23:12led me to a room
23:13full of dried flowers.
23:14Thousands of them
23:15f***ing them
23:16at the market.
23:17Until one morning,
23:18a house steward
23:18appeared and said
23:19his employer
23:20was very pleased
23:21with my work
23:22and wanted ten full
23:22baskets delivered daily.
23:24I had never seen
23:25the employer's
23:25f***ed face.
23:26It was Alaric.
23:28I summoned him
23:29to the main hall
23:30that evening.
23:30He stood in the
23:31center of them,
23:32unsure what to do
23:33with his hands.
23:34I didn't realize
23:35dragons had so many
23:36quirks.
23:37Sleeping on people's
23:38ch...
23:39Agonizing moment.
23:42Big sis.
23:43We'd met before Finn.
23:45Before any of this.
23:46Him for being born
23:46without dragon horns.
23:47Me for the mark
23:48on my face.
23:49Left in the mountains
23:49to survive or die.
23:50He arrived after me,
23:51so obviously
23:52I adopted him
23:53immediately.
23:54We lived like that
23:55for years,
23:56looking out for each other.
23:57Then his horns
23:58grew in.
24:00His family came
24:01to collect him.
24:02He didn't want to go.
24:03They tied him up.
24:04They told him
24:04if he f***ed
24:05fought it,
24:05they'd come back
24:06and kill me.
24:07He left to protect me.
24:09He found me again
24:10years later
24:11in the market.
24:13He was too afraid
24:15to approach.
24:16Afraid his presence
24:17would put me in danger.
24:19So he bought
24:20all my flowers instead.
24:22Every single day,
24:24at triple the market rate.
24:26He agreed to bond
24:27with Sienna
24:28because he knew
24:28what Finn was planning.
24:30He'd seen Finn
24:30watching Sienna.
24:31He knew the swap
24:32was coming.
24:33He let himself
24:34be exposed
24:35to the feral curse
24:36to give me a way out.
24:38His old family
24:38found out
24:39and took it from him.
24:40An investment
24:40in keeping the dragon
24:41estate's power
24:42centralized in the younger side.
24:43He nearly died.
24:45So did I.
24:46And we both
24:47came out the other side.
24:49I turned the dragon scale
24:50over in my hands.
24:52A reverse scale
24:53I'd found out.
24:54The most sensitive point
24:55on a dragon's body.
24:56The thing they guard
24:57most carefully.
24:58He'd given it to me
24:59in a panic.
25:00Terrified,
25:01I'd changed my mind.
25:03I pressed up
25:03on my toes
25:04and kissed his horn.
25:06You absolute idiot
25:08I said smiling.
25:10Why didn't you
25:11just tell me?
25:12He picked me up
25:13without any further discussion
25:14and carried me inside.
25:17I learned that night
25:18thoroughly and at length
25:20that dragon horns
25:21are not, in fact,
25:23for casual affectionate kissing.
25:27Followed.
25:28Said nothing.
25:29Just watched.
25:32Finn had disappeared.
25:33Some said dead.
25:34Some said he'd left
25:35the territory entirely.
25:37Today was my bond ceremony
25:38with Alaric.
25:40Some stories end with a bang.
25:42Mine ended with a bird
25:44being firmly escorted
25:45off the property.
25:48Works for me.
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