Born as a cursed black serpent, Wren was hated from the moment she opened her eyes. Betrayed by her own mother, mutilated, and thrown to the beasts, she died as a monster no one mourned. But fate grants her a second life. This time, Wren hides her true power and watches from the shadows while a fake “dragon heir” steals the glory meant for her. Yet the truth cannot stay buried forever. When Wren’s real dragon blood awakens, the kingdom trembles beneath her roar. The daughter they tried to destroy has returned—not for forgiveness, but for vengeance… and the throne that was always hers. 🔥🐉👑
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00:03For three years, Seraphine has been saying that she is pregnant with a dragon child.
00:08The midwife brought the bundle out, and the room went completely silent.
00:12It was not a dragon. It was not even a snake.
00:16It was a small, soft, pale worm.
00:18A common earthworm wrapped in royal linen.
00:21And I thought, this is her punishment.
00:24My name is Wren. I have lived twice.
00:26The first time, I came into the world as Seraphine's daughter.
00:30Just a black snake that nobody wanted.
00:32My dragon father only glanced at me.
00:34My snake mother decided I was the reason her life had fallen apart.
00:38She cut out my tongue and gouged out my eyes.
00:41She threw me into the thrall pens before I was six months old.
00:44Finally, they fed me to the hunting dogs and ate me.
00:47When I died, I met the ancient.
00:50She gave me a chance.
00:51I chose to be Aunt Selene's child.
00:53What I didn't account for was Seraphine.
00:56She had been given the same second chance.
00:58The healer had just confirmed the pregnancy.
01:01The moment she heard the news, she demanded three doses of an abortifacient draft.
01:06She thought that if she ended the pregnancy, Aldric would never leave her.
01:10But what she was carrying this time was a true dragon heir.
01:15The dragon king had declared it plainly.
01:18Whichever of his nine princes fathered a dragonborn child would inherit the throne.
01:23Of all nine princes, the third prince, Aldric, had the strongest claim.
01:27His own blood was pure, and his chosen consort, Seraphine, carried traces of true dragon lineage.
01:34This is wonderful, Seraphine.
01:37We are both with children.
01:39I never thought I would carry it again.
01:42The familiar voice confirmed it.
01:44I was truly inside my Aunt Selene's womb.
01:47Selene was gentle and kind.
01:49Her health, however, was fragile.
01:51She had entered the palace at the same time as Seraphine, and been given to the seventh prince, a man
01:56as quietly ailing as she was.
01:57While Seraphine was tormenting me, Selene had been the only one who treated me with any kindness.
02:03After I died, it was Selene who wrested my body from the dog's mouths.
02:08She built me a small grave marker, and said prayers over it every day.
02:12That was how I accumulated enough spiritual merit to stand before the ancient at all.
02:17Before I had long to enjoy it, I heard Seraphine's voice from outside.
02:21Physician.
02:22I don't want this child.
02:24Give me a draught to end it.
02:27Seraphine.
02:29Have you lost your mind?
02:30You have waited so long for this child.
02:32Why would you end it?
02:34In my previous life, Seraphine had been cautious throughout her pregnancy.
02:38Now she was demanding an abortifacient the moment the healer confirmed the news.
02:42She had been reborn too.
02:44There was no other explanation.
02:48Because it's a wretched thing.
02:50Selene, I know what I'm carrying.
02:53It is not a dragon.
02:54It's a little black snake.
02:56And when Aldric sees it, he will leave me.
02:59I won't let that happen.
03:03The child isn't even born yet.
03:05How can you know what it is?
03:07And if Aldric truly leaves you over a child, your anger belongs with him, not with it.
03:12But Seraphine wasn't listening.
03:15Physician!
03:16Come here at once!
03:17My lady.
03:18Dragon blood is sacred.
03:20By the Dragon King's own decree, no one may end a pregnancy of their own will.
03:24Those who do are exiled from Dragon King permanently.
03:28If you persist, I will have no choice but to report this to the Dragon King himself.
03:32Seraphine would die sooner than leave Aldric.
03:35She would never willingly leave the Dragon Court.
03:37I was joking.
03:40Of course I want this child.
03:42I love this child dearly.
03:45But the moment she stepped somewhere with no one watching, she drove her fist hard into her own belly.
03:52You little wretch.
03:54This life I will be rid of you.
04:00News of both pregnancies reached the Dragon King quickly.
04:03With only two of his prince's consorts expecting heirs, he was openly delighted.
04:08The seventh prince, Edric, was so overjoyed when he learned of Selene's pregnancy that he didn't sleep the whole night.
04:15He pressed his lips to her belly.
04:16Little one, don't give your mother trouble.
04:19Be good and quiet.
04:21And when you come out, I'll take you to the market and buy you meat pie.
04:25The child won't even have teeth.
04:29Whatever she wants, I'll find a way.
04:31I'd pull stars out of the sky if she asked.
04:35Edric, what if it isn't a dragon?
04:37What if it's only a snake?
04:38Would you still want us?
04:39He went still.
04:40Then he pulled her close.
04:41Selene, do you want to leave me?
04:44He held her tighter.
04:45Dragon or snake or anything else in between, I won't let either of you go.
04:49No, not ever.
04:50It sounded like something a lovesick boy would say.
04:53Selene laughed and cried at the same time.
04:55I felt it too, like a woman.
04:57He built her cradle herself and carved small wooden horses for me to play with.
05:02Every evening, he pressed his ear to Selene's belly and told me stories.
05:06He even sought out the most experienced midwives in the palace and learned everything they knew
05:11about tending to mothers and infants.
05:13Selene, for her part, took care of everything.
05:16Every step, every movement, so as not to disturb me.
05:20I did my part in return.
05:22And whenever I found something wrong in Selene's body, old illness, stagnant blood,
05:27a quiet weakness she had carried for years, I quietly consumed it.
05:33Four months had passed like this.
05:35Selene had not gained so much as an ounce.
05:37But her face was flushed and healthy.
05:40Her skin had color.
05:41The shadows under her eyes were gone.
05:48Most women weaken during pregnancy.
05:50Their bodies are drawn upon.
05:51But your highness has grown stronger.
05:53Old elements I once thought permanent have simply vanished.
05:56The only time I have ever seen a pulse like this was when the late dragon queen carried the dragon
06:00king through Selene.
06:02Edric, did you hear that?
06:05The baby is healing me.
06:06She's so small and already so thoughtful.
06:10She's going to be the kindest, most remarkable child.
06:13She really is a blessing.
06:14She hasn't even arrived yet.
06:16Neither of them had paid any attention to the physician's final words.
06:20That my pulse resembled the dragon king's own.
06:24Whatever I turned out to be, they would have held on to me.
06:26Selene, once she had calmed herself.
06:29How Seraphine was faring.
06:31At the mention of Seraphine, the physician's expression darkened.
06:34I have never in my life seen a mother less willing to protect her own child.
06:39Seraphine had spent the past four months making herself miserable.
06:42She ate food that inflamed the baby.
06:44Hot, bitter things in turns.
06:46The child reacted violently, kicking without rest.
06:49And Seraphine's own suffering was considerable.
06:52She vomited constantly.
06:56Aldric found her revolting and stayed away.
06:58Seraphine, furious, blamed everything on the child inside her.
07:02When she heard that strenuous movement might disturb the baby's sleep,
07:06she began moving without pause.
07:09When she learned the hot springs could cause damage,
07:12she soaked in them until her skin peeled.
07:16Whatever is inside her is remarkable, frankly.
07:19After everything she's done to it, it's still holding on.
07:22Thank every power that existed that I was not the one.
07:30Selene was genuinely kind.
07:32When she heard what Seraphine had done to herself,
07:34she packed a cart full of tonics and medicinal parcels and went to see her.
07:37She wanted to try one more time to talk sense into her.
07:40She had barely crossed the threshold, and she smelled something wrong.
07:43Seraphine was standing in the middle of the room and drinking in long, desperate bars.
07:47Seraphine!
07:49What is this?
07:50What are you drinking?
07:51It's a remedy.
07:53It can turn what's inside you.
07:55Change the snake to a dragon.
07:57Seraphine.
07:59There is no such drug in the world.
08:01You will kill your child.
08:03Good.
08:04I'd rather it die than you have to do it myself.
08:06Seraphine, whatever you carry, it is still your child.
08:09If it ever knew how you treated it, it would hate you.
08:11Easy for you to say, Selene.
08:13You didn't end up carrying a wretched little snake.
08:14And don't pretend you don't know what's in your belly.
08:16Everyone's whispering that you're carrying a true heir.
08:18Try swapping what you have for what I have.
08:20Then we'll see how saintly you are.
08:21Since the physician's visit, rumours have spread through court that Selene might be carrying a true dragon heir.
08:27But everyone who knew them understood.
08:28Edric loved Selene truly.
08:30Only Seraphine believed the child was the reason.
08:39Bring both women into the palace and place them under careful watch.
08:43Even surrounded by the Dragon King's own people, Seraphine found ways to punish the child inside her.
08:48Selene watched and grieved and said nothing more.
08:51She had stopped trying.
08:52Seraphine stopped eating.
08:53Her belly swelled enormously.
08:55Her skin went dull and yellowish.
08:57Aged a decade in months, she stopped.
08:59Then she came to Selene and confessed, with tears in her eyes.
09:02I believed I had been under some kind of enchantment.
09:07All of it!
09:08I had been bewitched!
09:10I was herself again now.
09:12I intended to be a proper mother.
09:14Whatever the child was, I would raise it with love.
09:17That is all I have ever wanted to hear from you.
09:19Seraphine, I have been reading the old histories.
09:22Even a serpent-born child can ascend, with training and time.
09:25It is not hopeless, Seraphine said, and smiled back.
09:29You are right, sister.
09:31I should have come to you sooner.
09:32She stayed to ask questions about the pregnancy.
09:35Selene answered everything with patience.
09:37When Seraphine left, Selene even pressed a package of restorative herbs into her hands.
09:42That night, she told Edric.
09:46I think Seraphine has finally grown up.
09:49Everyone said she had changed.
09:52Seraphine has finally come to her senses.
09:54She's a changed woman now.
09:56The warmth, the questions, the tears.
09:58It was a performance.
09:59She was planning something.
10:01A month later, with Selene's birth nearing,
10:05I need you to do something for me.
10:08The girl slipped something into Selene's drink that put her under.
10:16I heard Seraphine enter with several others.
10:20Give her the forcing drage.
10:22Once we've both delivered, swap the inference.
10:25She moved to Selene's side and laid a hand on her veil.
10:32Selene, you always love to lecture me about how it doesn't matter what comes out.
10:36Well, let's see how enlightened you are when you're the one holding the wretched thing.
10:43She laughed softly to herself.
10:45Pleased with the thought.
10:46I understand it all now.
10:47The kindness, the visits, the questions.
10:50Learning which handmaids could be bought.
10:52Panic spiked through me.
10:53I kicked hard against the wound.
10:54Selene didn't stir.
10:55I felt the walls of Selene's body begin to contract.
10:58I kicked it again.
10:59More desperate now.
11:00Wake up.
11:01Please wake up.
11:02And then, impossibly...
11:06Selene's voice.
11:08She was awake.
11:09Shouting.
11:09Calling for help.
11:11Get away from me!
11:12Within moments, voices flooded in from the hall.
11:14Edric.
11:15The Dragon King.
11:16The relief that moved through me was so complete.
11:21Make way.
11:22She is in labor.
11:24Light hit me from every direction at once.
11:26I was born.
11:28I was lifted and placed against Selene's chest.
11:31I smelled her.
11:32I had been smelling her for months from the inside.
11:34And now, here it was from the outside.
11:37Edric.
11:38Look.
11:39She's smiling already.
11:41She's only just arrived and she's already smiling at us.
11:44I was still looking around the room when I spotted Seraphine pushing through the crowd.
11:50Selene noticed her too.
11:54Seraphine.
11:55Come and look.
11:56She's beautiful.
11:57Seraphine stepped forward.
11:59Her brow was tight.
12:00Then she looked at me.
12:01Her gaze caught on something at my forehead.
12:03She went completely white.
12:05It's you.
12:05She lunged forward and seized my arm.
12:08It's you.
12:10You.
12:12How do you have that mark?
12:14What mark?
12:15Seraphine's grip was trembling.
12:16There is a mark on her forehead.
12:19Glowing.
12:21She looked again.
12:23The glow was gone.
12:24I lay there, ordinary and unremarkable.
12:28A small, dark snake child blinking up at the torchlight.
12:33Seraphine's face crumpled.
12:38How can you be hers?
12:40How can you be hers?
12:40Then what am I carrying?
12:41Who is inside me?
12:43Before anyone could answer, a rush of water soaked the floor at her feet.
12:48Seraphine doubled over, shrieking.
12:50She was in labor.
12:57Compared to Selene's birth, Seraphine's was a nightmare.
13:00She labored for three days and three nights.
13:03She screamed for all three.
13:05The sound kept me from sleeping.
13:06I think every power, it wasn't like this for us.
13:09She told Edric, her voice still shaken.
13:12I didn't suffer at all.
13:13I have a name now.
13:14Two lives and I finally had a name.
13:16In my first life, I had been called nothing.
13:18Nothing kind, anyway.
13:20Seraphine had two names for me.
13:21Little Wretch and Little Whore.
13:23This life, Selene named me Wren.
13:25Not dragon, not serpent, just Wren.
13:29Whatever I was, only wanted you safe.
13:32Edric came and pinched my cheek and declared me in the history of the Dragon Court.
13:36The best behaved child.
13:38Him, most newborns fuss and wail for days.
13:41You only ate and slept.
13:43I smiled up at them both.
13:45Just as the warmth was settling in, someone ran to find you.
13:49Seventh Prince, your highness, the third princess concert has delivered.
13:52Edric and Selene carried me over to see.
13:54The room was packed.
13:55Seraphine's laughter rang out over everything.
13:58The heavens have not forgotten me.
13:59I knew it.
14:00I always knew I could do this.
14:05Hello, my sweet girl.
14:08Like a prize, and pressed it into Aldric's arms.
14:11Husband, I didn't I tell you?
14:14Aldric's face had gone soft in a way I had never seen.
14:17He took the child and carried it straight to the Dragon King.
14:25The dragon king took it with great care, turned it over slowly, examined it from every angle.
14:30Then his expression changed.
14:34He said.
14:35This dragon, why does it only have two claws?
14:39The room went quiet.
14:41People looked closer.
14:43It was true.
14:43A dragon should have four.
14:45This one had one.
14:46Then someone else said quietly.
14:48It hasn't opened its eyes.
14:49It's been some time now.
14:51It should have opened its eyes.
14:52It doesn't look right.
14:53It looks like it's fading.
14:56You dare.
14:57My dragon is perfectly well.
14:59Don't you put that on my child.
15:01But even as she said it, the small golden dragon in the Dragon King's arms began to convulse.
15:06Its mouth foamed white.
15:07It shuddered once.
15:09Its head fell to the side.
15:10It was dead.
15:11The physician pushed through and examined the child.
15:13Your Majesty, the air was healthy at the start.
15:16But the third princess concept consumed something during the pregnancy.
15:19I believe a harmful compound would damage the child from the inside.
15:22It held on as long as it could.
15:24But it was never going to survive.
15:26Aldric's face darkly grabbed Seraphine by the collar.
15:29What did you take?
15:31What did you put into your body?
15:33What did you do to my son?
15:36Seraphine had gone grey.
15:37I didn't.
15:38I never.
15:39I only.
15:40Her eyes sharpened.
15:41Then she saw Selene cross the roof.
15:43It was her.
15:45It was Selene.
15:46She pointed.
15:46She gave me those herbs.
15:48She was jealous.
15:49She knew what I was carrying and she poisoned me.
15:51She poisoned my child.
15:53It was the gaze of a man who wanted someone to blaze and had just been handed a target.
15:57Aldric turned his gaze on Selene.
16:01Seventh Prince!
16:02Your wife killed my son.
16:04What do you intend to do about that?
16:07Selene was calm.
16:08She waited a beat, then spoke.
16:09Seraphine, you say the herbs I gave you were poisoned, but I ate from the same supply.
16:15My child is right here perfectly well.
16:17Can you explain that?
16:19Have you forgotten the potion you drank?
16:21You said it could turn snakes into dragons.
16:52Everyone in that room knew about Seraphine's pregnancy.
16:53She had seen her this, and the color drained entirely from her face.
16:56You're saying...
16:57You're saying I did this?
16:59I turned it into that?
17:00I had a true dragon all along and I did that to it myself?
17:05She stood there pulling at her own head, sinking under the weight of it.
17:08Then, all at once, she looked up.
17:11Then we try again!
17:12She grabbed Aldric's arm with both hands.
17:15She said...
17:16Husband, we try again!
17:18Her smile was warm.
17:20I did it once, I can do it again.
17:22Like another pregnancy.
17:23Another heir!
17:24Another heir!
17:26I know I can give you a dragon!
17:29Seraphine's story spread through the dragon court like fire through dry grass.
17:34She had delivered a true dragon heir, and it had died in the dragon king's arm within minutes of birth.
17:40Most people said it behind their hands and laughed.
17:42Seraphine didn't care.
17:43She shut herself in her chambers with Aldric and got to work.
17:46She was serpent-born, and serpent-born women were extraordinarily fertile.
17:50Within two months, she was with child again.
17:53This time, she was careful.
17:54Obsessively careful.
17:55She ate well.
17:56She rested.
17:57She took every tonic and restorative the palace healers prescribed without argument.
18:01She told everyone who would listen had a feeling, a certainty, that this child was a dragon.
18:07People were skeptical, but they believed her more than they might have otherwise.
18:11She had, after all, conceived a true dragon voice.
18:13That was more than anyone else in a hundred years could claim.
18:16The dragon king sent attendants from the palace to watch over her.
18:19Aldric stayed close.
18:21For the first time in their marriage, he was faithful and present.
18:24Everyone assumed this pregnancy would follow the same pattern as the first.
18:27That when the time came, the child would arrive and be a dragon.
18:30Instead, she carried it for three years.
18:33Three years was unnatural by any measure.
18:36It should have been a scandal.
18:37But Seraphine had heard of a figure from old legend, whose mother had carried him for three years before he
18:42was born.
18:42And he had become something close to divine.
18:44So, she put that story in circulation.
18:46He told everyone.
18:47This child was no ordinary little dragon.
18:52It was something rarer.
18:54The court chose to believe her.
18:57Those three years were very good to me.
19:00Just as I'd expected, Edric and Selene gave me everything.
19:03They played with me, taught me, took me everywhere.
19:06Even the dragon king had grown fond of me, despite me being only a snake-born child.
19:10On my third birthday, he held a feast in my honor and placed around my neck the dragon seal pendant
19:15that only dragon-born princesses were meant to wear.
19:18He patted my head.
19:19Little Ren, tell me.
19:20What do you want most?
19:21Whatever you say, your grandfather will provide it.
19:24I want the dragon king to live forever.
19:29The room laughed.
19:30Warm, genuine laughter.
19:32Seraphine, standing at the edge of the crowd, looked like she had bitten into something rotten.
19:36She muttered under her breath.
19:38The old man has lost his senses, fussing over a little black snake.
19:42That charm belongs on my child's neck, not hers.
19:45The feast wound down.
19:46The dragon king invited me to spend the night in the palace.
19:48A nursemaid led me toward my rooms, but the walk felt wrong.
19:52The corridors were unfamiliar.
19:54We turned into an empty courtyard with no torches lit, and I saw Seraphine waiting in the dark.
19:59I ran.
20:00She caught me by the shoulder before I cleared the gate.
20:02Ren, where are you going?
20:04I'm not going to hurt you.
20:06Aunt Seraphina, did you want something?
20:08I have a birthday gift for you.
20:10I made it myself.
20:12Go on, eat it.
20:13I looked at the cake.
20:14I looked at her.
20:15Every instinct I had said,
20:17Do not.
20:17I took it from her hand, raised it toward my mouth, and threw it directly at her face.
20:21Then I ran again.
20:22The gate slammed shut before I reached it.
20:24Seraphine caught me and wrapped one hand around my throat.
20:27Her expression had dropped all pretense.
20:30You little ingrate.
20:32I brought you a gift and you wasted it.
20:34Open your mouth.
20:36I fought her.
20:37I was three years old and she was a grown woman.
20:40Someone help me!
20:42The third princess consort is trying to kill me!
20:45Seraphina, if you kill me again, I will ask the ancient to turn your child into a worm.
20:51She stared down at me with an expression I had never seen on her face.
20:54Something between fury and terror.
20:56No!
20:56The gate burst open.
20:58Selene stood in the frame.
20:59Ren, I ran to her.
21:01Mother!
21:02She tried to poison me!
21:04Edric and the Dragon King were right behind Selene.
21:06Someone had noticed I was missing and raised the alarm.
21:08They had gone from courtyard to courtyard looking for me.
21:11The Dragon King looked...
21:12You were trying to harm Rint?
21:13Father, please don't listen to her.
21:16I brought her a birthday gift.
21:17She threw it at me and started screaming.
21:20I don't know why she would say something like this.
21:23Ren, I know you're young, but to accuse me of something so terrible, what were you thinking?
21:28She had her attendants bring forward the gift box she had prepared.
21:31Inside, a neat arrangement of small cakes, beautifully made.
21:35Her attendants confirmed she had been in the kitchens all afternoon working on them.
21:39She had done it in secret, they said, because Selene didn't like Ren eating sweets.
21:43And she hadn't wanted Selene to confiscate them.
21:46People started looking at me the way adults look at children who lie.
21:50Seraphine pressed her advantage.
21:52Little Wern, I know you were afraid I'd get you in trouble, but you don't have to make things up.
21:56Your aunt forgives you.
21:57Just say sorry and we can forget it.
22:00Children do invent things when they're frightened.
22:03I had heard enough!
22:05She didn't bring me here for cake.
22:08Lies! You're lying!
22:09She's been trying to get rid of me since before I was born.
22:11Three years ago, she bribed one of Mother's handymaids and drugged Mother's drink.
22:15She was going to use a forcing draft to deliver both of us early and switch us.
22:19She only failed because Mother woke up in time.
22:21It's a lie!
22:22Three years ago, I was carrying a true dragon heir.
22:25Why would I swap anything?
22:26What could I possibly have gained?
22:29Because you weren't sure yet.
22:30You thought Mother might be carrying the dragon and you might be carrying the snake.
22:34So you wanted to switch us before anyone found out.
22:37Seraphine's face went into a very meticulous...
22:39Father, she is a three-year-old child making accusations about things she could not possibly have witnessed.
22:44Exactly.
22:45Everyone went still.
22:47Selene spoke before the silence could stretch too long.
22:50My daughter does not lie.
22:51If you want to know whether this is true, ask the handymaid.
22:54The handmaid was found.
22:56The Dragon King's people had ways of getting at the truth.
22:59It didn't take long.
23:00The testimony came back in writing.
23:03Every detail confirmed.
23:04Seraphine had bribed her.
23:06The draft had been administered.
23:07Selene had woken before the swap could happen.
23:09The Dragon King read it.
23:10Then he dropped the paper on the floor at Seraphine's feet.
23:13Seraphine had gone white to the lips.
23:16She's lying.
23:17The testimony is a forgery.
23:18Selene put her up to this.
23:20She and this...
23:20You tried to kill my child.
23:22You wanted to destroy her before she was born.
23:24You have been trying to destroy her since.
23:26And now you stand here and call on our bond as sisters.
23:30She looked at Seraphine directly for a long moment.
23:33Did you think of that bond when you went after her?
23:35Selene and Edric pushed together for the Dragon King to render punishment.
23:38Sister, we are blood.
23:42Would you truly have me punished her over a snake?
23:44The moment you went after my child, you made your choice about what our bond was worth.
23:50The Dragon King straightened.
23:51He was about to speak.
23:53Seraphine dropped to the ground with a shriek.
23:55My stomach.
23:56The baby.
23:57I think it's coming.
23:58Someone fetch the Midwite.
24:00Now!
24:01Nothing in the Dragon Court could stop them.
24:04Not for punishment.
24:05Not for justice.
24:06Not for truth.
24:06If a possible Dragonair was on its way into the world, the Dragon King called for the
24:10Midwives immediately.
24:12Half the court ran to find them.
24:13The other half followed Seraphine to her chambers to watch history happen.
24:16This time, birth was easy.
24:18Not even half a day.
24:19The bundle was brought out and placed in Seraphine's arms.
24:22The room went absolutely silent.
24:24It was a small, soft, pale worm.
24:27Barely moving.
24:28A common earthworm wrapped in royal linen.
24:31The Dragon King's face did something complicated.
24:33Aldric looked as though the floor had dropped out from under him.
24:36Seraphine didn't understand.
24:37She was reaching for the bundle.
24:38Her face still open and expected.
24:40Let me see my little dragon.
24:42She looked.
24:44What is this?
24:45She whispered.
24:46Where is my dragon?
24:47This isn't mine.
24:48Someone has switched them.
24:50Someone switched my child.
24:52This isn't...
24:53Aldric said.
24:53His voice was flat and terrible.
24:55Whose child is it then?
24:56Then, just as she had done the first time, Seraphine's gaze found me across the room.
25:01You did this.
25:02She said.
25:03I know you did this.
25:05I stepped back.
25:06One small step.
25:07Instinctive.
25:08Nobody in the room was ready for what happened next.
25:11Seraphine moved fast.
25:12She had a hand around my throat before anyone reached her.
25:15And she had a sword from the nearest guard's belt before anyone knew she'd taken it.
25:18She pressed the blade on my neck.
25:20She had lost her hand in time.
25:22Her voice shook with it.
25:24Tell me what you did.
25:25I left you alone this life.
25:27I left you alone and you still came after me.
25:30What did you do to my child?
25:32Why won't you just let me have this?
25:34Nobody else mastered what she meant.
25:36Say you were what you wanted.
25:37Edric learned all that.
25:39Seraphine, put the blade down.
25:40Rink is three years old.
25:42She hasn't done anything.
25:43You don't understand.
25:45Seraphine's grip tightened.
25:46She's done this to me before.
25:48She ruined everything before.
25:50And now she's done it again.
25:51She won't stop until I have nothing.
25:53She looked at me.
25:54Her eyes were wild and wet.
25:56Die.
25:57Just die.
25:58She dropped the sword into my chest.
26:01I heard Selene and Edric scream.
26:03And then, light.
26:04A warmth so sudden and total.
26:06It swallowed the pain whole.
26:08My head scattered and then pulled back together.
26:10Sharp and clear.
26:11I remembered the ancient.
26:12After my first death, I had stood before she.
26:15She had offered me another chance.
26:17And then, as I was leaving, she had said something else.
26:19What had she said?
26:20I had almost forgotten.
26:21She had told me,
26:22You are a true dragon.
26:26You are a true dragon.
26:27You have always been one.
26:29But your dragon blood was sealed at birth.
26:31It is locked in your heart.
26:33And the seal can only be broken one of two ways.
26:36The first is to wait until you come of age.
26:38The second is to break it open yourself.
26:41Something vast.
26:43It rose through the wound.
26:45It filled my ribs, my throat, my skull.
26:47I opened my mouth.
26:49And what came out was not a scream.
26:51It was a dragon's claw.
26:53It tore through the wound.
26:54Flatly thunder.
26:55I felt my body leaving the ground.
26:57I felt myself expanding into something enormous.
27:00Something with wings and scales and weight.
27:03And I circled the wall twice.
27:05Enormous and gold and real.
27:07And then I came back down.
27:08When I returned to my small human shape,
27:10the wound was gone.
27:11The room stared at me.
27:13Shifted.
27:14Word shifted.
27:15She's a true dragon.
27:16She's been a true dragon this whole time.
27:19I knew she wasn't ordinary.
27:21The dragon kin has an heir.
27:22We have an heir.
27:24The rumor erupted.
27:26Seraphine stood completely still in the middle of it.
27:29Staring at me.
27:32How?
27:32She said.
27:33I was always one.
27:34I told her.
27:35I was one in my first life too.
27:37There were two ways to unlock my blood.
27:38The first was to reach adulthood.
27:40The second was for my heart seal to be broken by force.
27:43I looked at the sword.
27:44She was still holding.
27:45You never had any patience.
27:46That's why you'll never be a dragon's mother.
27:48Before Seraphine could raise the sword,
27:50it was over.
27:51Several people moved at once.
27:53She died there in the hall.
27:54The small worm she had carried for three years
27:57did not outlive her for long.
27:58Within a few years,
27:59it was gone too.
28:00Because I had revealed my true form,
28:03the dragon king honoured the oath he had made
28:05before all the court.
28:06The prince whose bloodline produced a true dragon heir
28:08would take the throne.
28:10On the day Edric was crowned,
28:11I told them everything.
28:13The first life.
28:13The second.
28:14All of it.
28:15I expected to be scolded for keeping it secret.
28:17Instead,
28:18they both wept.
28:19Were,
28:20she said.
28:21We should be thanking you now.
28:22You chose us.
28:23Out of everyone you could have gone to,
28:25you chose us.
28:26That is not something we will ever take lightly.
28:29Dragon,
28:30a snake,
28:30or anything in between.
28:31You were always exactly who we wanted.
28:34Two lives.
28:35A lot of dying.
28:36A lot of cruelty to wade through.
28:37Before I got here.
28:38But I got here.
28:39I got here.
28:41I got here.
28:44I got here.
28:44I got here.
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