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00:01C'est parti pour l'austin 8 ans à rise de l'apprentissage de la jeune dragon rider commander en
00:06la kingdom.
00:07Je suis resté avec lui pendant les 8 ans.
00:12Pendant ses pluses années, je n'ai pas eu de la job à l'hôpital.
00:16Chaque jour, j'ai préparé des déceintes de la pêche, des déceintes de la pêche, des salves de la pêche,
00:21et des hôpitales de la pêche des déceintes de la pêche, tout selon ses patrols.
00:27Je lui ai demandé une fois.
00:30«Austin, can I touch your flight memories sometime?
00:34I want to see the sky and the earth through your eyes.
00:37Just once.»
00:38He was wiping down his knight's sword at the time.
00:41He did not even look up.
00:45A dragon's memories aren't there for outsiders to play joy with.
00:50Okay.
00:52And I never asked again.
00:54I kept brewing his draughts, cleaning his wounds,
00:57and waiting for the day he would remember that promise himself.
01:01But that day never came.
01:03Instead, even his memories had a locked door and I was the one left outside it.
01:09I thought one day he would let me see the world from his dragon's back.
01:13Not because I begged, but because he wanted me there.
01:16But I still did not understand how far outside his life I truly stood.
01:24Until that night, I was folding Austin's patrol cloak when my fingers brushed against a memory crystal with a
01:30cracked edge inside the inner pocket.
01:33His wax seal was pressed into the base.
01:35It should have been kept by the rider himself.
01:38I only meant to put it back.
01:39But as light rose inside the crystal, I saw more than 40 recorded sendings.
01:45All from the back of his storm dragon.
01:48Clouds seas.
01:49The kingdom's towers under sunset.
01:51A double rainbow stretching across the valley after rain.
01:55Lavender fields.
01:56Snowfields beneath the northern lights.
01:59Every single one had been sent to the same person.
02:01The receiving mark was a white rose.
02:04Evelyn's mark.
02:05The last one was from three days ago.
02:07Next time we take the dawn ride, you'll sit in the right side's second saddle.
02:10The wind is steadiest there, and you'll see the morning light in full.
02:15Will Ivy mind?
02:16She doesn't understand the sky from a dragon's back.
02:19I put the memory crystal back where it had been.
02:22I did not smash it.
02:23I did not ask him about it.
02:25At dawn, I brewed my herbal tea as usual and drank it in silence.
02:29Then I opened the contract scroll and signed my name in the handover section of my lair contract.
02:34After that, I reserved a bronze token from a border caravan that would leave the capital in seven days.
02:40I had finally decided to stop chasing the return of his dragon wings.
02:47Austin came out near dawn, dragging his rider's chest behind him.
02:51Is the right wing strap fixed?
02:53It's fixed.
02:55The storm dragon's wound still needs to be changed tonight.
02:59Remember to handle it.
03:00He picked up the other cup of tea I had poured and took a sip.
03:03Were you up late again reading those useless herb books?
03:07No.
03:09Ivy, your routine is getting worse.
03:12I'm heading to the Northern Patrol soon.
03:14When I return, I have to attend Evelyn's imprestation.
03:17Okay.
03:18Where are the pain-dowling herbs?
03:20Third shelf at the medicine cabinet.
03:22Second box on the left.
03:24Get them yourself.
03:27What's wrong with you today?
03:28You won't even do something that small.
03:31I'm tired.
03:33You stay in the lair mixing herbs.
03:35How are you more tired than the people out on patrol?
03:38Austin, will I slow you down the first time I enter the storm line?
03:42If I get scared, can I hold on to your cloak?
03:46With me there, you won't fall.
03:51Evelyn is going too?
03:52Yes.
03:54She's joining the rider's escort to observe the patrol.
03:56He answered so naturally that he did not even need an excuse.
03:59I looked at his back and thought of the memory crystal.
04:01He knew how to care for someone else's fear.
04:03He had just never placed my wishes in his heart.
04:07Austin, do you remember what next Wednesday is?
04:09Next Wednesday?
04:10The Elder Council is holding a new night's implition.
04:13Evelyn will recite Old Dracient for the first time.
04:15Why?
04:16Nothing.
04:17Next Wednesday was the day his storm dragon first chose him.
04:21Eight years ago, Dragonfire had burned his hand bloody, but he didn't care.
04:25Just said he would let me sit in his second saddle one day.
04:29He had forgotten.
04:31I'm leaving.
04:32Your rider's chest isn't lashed.
04:36You're acting strange today.
04:40After the door closed, I placed the copy of Myler Contract into the message tube.
04:46Then I pressed the bronze caravan koken into my palm.
04:49Nora pushed the door open and set an old cloth bag on the table.
04:54You submitted the contract?
04:58I did.
05:01When are you going to tell Austin?
05:03The day I leave.
05:06Ivy, are you really going to let eight years of your life end without a sound?
05:14Nora, the steadiest place.
05:16The second saddle on the right.
05:17He saved that for someone else.
05:19Not me.
05:20He even remembered to thicken the saddle padding.
05:22What?
05:23For the longest time, I told myself he just didn't know how to love.
05:28But the truth is, he just didn't love me.
05:31So I'm done waiting.
05:35That afternoon, I went to the contract hall.
05:38I had my name removed from the Lair's daily access register.
05:42Ivy, why are you suddenly removing your Lair access?
05:45It will be inconvenience if you need to enter later.
05:48I won't need it anymore.
05:50When I returned to the tower residence,
05:52I dragged to wooden trunks out of the storage room and began packing.
05:56The tower residence stood near the west side of the Capitol's dragon spire.
06:00From the window, I could see the landing platform.
06:04Austin had said it was his way of thanking me for staying with him through the hardest years.
06:08I had thought it was our home.
06:10But the truth was, so little of it had ever really been mine.
06:14My dresses took up only two shelves in the wardrobe.
06:17The rest were his formal rider uniforms, patrol cloaks, armor, and spare gloves.
06:23I placed my herb books into the trunk.
06:25In the apothecary room, for full shelves were filled with his records.
06:29Old injury flare-ups, dragon breath instability,
06:33warming draft doses, saddle buckle checks before and after northern patrols.
06:38All that belonged to me was one old medicine box and three hand-copped herb books.
06:43Then I bound every record with his name on it by date,
06:46and left them for the next Lair apothecary.
06:53Ivy, have you really decided to leave?
06:58I have.
07:00Does the commander know?
07:02He will soon.
07:04Then please finish the apothecary inventory over the next few days.
07:09All right.
07:10I'll finish the inventory, and then I'm gone.
07:19I wrote from morning until dusk.
07:22The quill rubbed my fingers raw.
07:24The sending stone trembled.
07:31Arrived at the northern camp.
07:32Normally, I would immediately ask whether he was cold,
07:36whether his old wound hurt,
07:38and whether the storm dragon rejected the snowfield air.
07:41Today, I sent back only one word.
07:45Okay.
07:46Half an hour later, he sent another message.
07:49There is freshly gathered moonfrost herb in the north.
07:52Do you want some?
07:53I was packing my small medicine bottles into a cloth bag.
07:58No.
07:59You used to want it.
08:07Not anymore.
08:09He did not reply again.
08:12That night, the Lair sent over a northern apothecary inventory.
08:15Then I saw a new entry at the bottom.
08:19Inventory entry.
08:20A silver dragon fleece wing cloak for Evelyn.
08:23Signed by Austin.
08:26Silver dragon fleece was expensive and rare.
08:30Last winter, I had applied to the storeroom for some to make Austin a pair of wrist guards.
08:36No need.
08:37Ordinary wolf fur will do.
08:39Now he had ordered an entire cloak for Evelyn.
08:42I closed the inventory.
08:44So Austin did remember how to shield someone from the wind.
08:47He simply never used any of that care on me.
08:56A few days later, Austin returned from patrol.
08:59At seven that evening, he pushed open the door to the tower residence.
09:02I was sitting by the hearth, sealing the last medicine box.
09:04Why isn't there hot soup?
09:07I've eaten.
09:09I flew for four days, and I can't even come back to hot soup.
09:13There is bread in the kitchen.
09:15He tossed his cloak over the back of a chair, already impatient.
09:19Ivy, what are you sulking about these days?
09:23I'm not sulking.
09:27Then why can't you even send one proper message back?
09:29He walked to the medicine cabinet and seemed to remember something.
09:31Where is the moonfrost draft?
09:33In the cold cabinet.
09:35It's for your old injury.
09:37Send it to Evelyn first.
09:43She caught a chill the first time she entered the storm line.
09:45The moonfrost draft will help her.
09:47I spent three months preparing that for you.
09:50Make more later.
09:52Later.
09:53He always thought my time, my medicine, and my effort could be replaced later.
09:58Get it yourself.
10:01You won't even take medicine to her for me now.
10:05I have a handover list to finish.
10:07She's only a new apprentice at court.
10:10Why do you have to be so petty with her?
10:13You're looking after her very well.
10:15I was out on patrol for four days!
10:18I didn't come back to hear your cold remarks!
10:21I'll sleep in the apothecary room tonight.
10:24Rest well.
10:32For the next two days, I cleared myself out step by step.
10:36The silver leaf plant by the window was mine, so I gave it to the maid downstairs.
10:41The old wicker chair in the apothecary room was mine, so I asked a servant to move it to
10:46the back courtyard.
10:47I divided the pain-dulling herbs the storm dragon used before each takeoff into seven portions.
10:53Each one was labeled with the date and dosage.
10:56After my lair contract ended, the new lair apothecary could simply follow the instructions.
11:03Austin noticed nothing missing from the tower residence.
11:06He only seemed pleased that I had been quiet lately.
11:10You should have been like this earlier.
11:12On Friday morning, he sat at the long table eating the hard bread I had baked without much effort.
11:18Evelyn's interstitian is today.
11:20You're coming with me.
11:27Why should I go?
11:28Aren't you always saying I never bring you into my world?
11:33His tone made it sound like a favor.
11:35The Elder Council and the Riders will all be there today.
11:38You should meet them.
11:39In the past, I had begged him to let me meet the people of the Skyrider Order.
11:44They're all riders and dragon language.
11:46Scholars, you won't understand what they talk about.
11:48You'll be bored.
11:51Now he was offering to take me because it was Evelyn's investiture.
11:56All right.
12:24The new old draconic apprentice, Evelyn,
12:27requires a right protector.
12:29A right protector would bear responsibility before the Elder Council
12:33if she made a mistake during the recitation.
12:35It was not a casual position.
12:37The hall fell silent.
12:39A right protector isn't chosen lightly.
12:42Commander Austin is protecting her in public now?
12:46I'm a little afraid to recite Aldricanen in front of so many people for the first time.
12:51I'm lucky Austin is willing to stay with me.
12:54Austin did not deny it.
12:55He even adjusted her cloak for her.
12:58I stood among the crowd and watched his hands smooth the fabric over her shoulders.
13:02That simple gesture cut deeper than any public insult.
13:09Because he had never adjusted my cloak in front of anyone.
13:12No one asked why the woman who had guarded his lair for eight years
13:15had been left with no place beside him.
13:17I watched everyone except Evelyn at his side as if it were natural.
13:21Maybe that's for the best.
13:23At least I won't have any reason to waver.
13:30Ivy, your seat is with the lair apothetrice.
13:33The lair apothetrice.
13:35Not the family seats.
13:38Not anywhere near the second saddle.
13:41I knew those two syllables too.
13:44I had copied them over and over while sorting Austin's dragon language notes.
13:51With the commander there, how could Evelyn make a mistake?
13:55The first time I recorded a dragon breath frequency incorrectly,
13:59Austin made me recalculate it in the freezing wind until dawn.
14:03The lair does not keep careless people.
14:05So he was capable of patience.
14:08Just not with me.
14:09Ivy.
14:11I'll be coming to the lair often from now on.
14:13I'll still need you to keep taking care of Austin.
14:16And if there is anything I don't understand,
14:19I'll need you to teach me too.
14:23I've already resigned.
14:24Is this because of me, Ivy?
14:28Did I do something wrong?
14:30No.
14:32I just don't want to keep caring for someone who doesn't need me.
14:41Ivy, have you had enough?
14:42Everyone is here to celebrate Evelyn's imprestation.
14:45Do you have to embarrass her with every word?
14:46What did I say that was embarrassing?
14:49Evelyn only wanted to learn the rules from you.
14:51What kind of attitude is this?
14:54Commander Austin.
14:55Since someone needs you so badly, you don't need to look for me again.
15:00Ivy!
15:00Try walking out that door today!
15:07Early the next morning, the royal court sent an official document.
15:13Document.
15:14The Don Wright's second saddle list has been changed.
15:17Document.
15:18Original registrant.
15:19Evelyn.
15:20Document.
15:21Purpose of change.
15:23Accompanying apothecary.
15:25Document.
15:26Accompanying person.
15:27Ivy.
15:31Accompanying apothecary.
15:33Not the second saddle choice.
15:35Not the person riding beside him.
15:37Just the person responsible for medicine.
15:39Even my name looked as if it had been tucked into the margin of the document as an afterthought.
15:45It's Evelyn's first time attending the Dawn Rite.
15:47She'll be nervous.
15:50You can go with us and look after her.
15:53It still counts as letting you attend the Dawn Rite.
15:59So you're bringing me to care for her?
16:04Do you have to make it sound so ugly?
16:08I'm just reading what the document says.
16:11Ivy, stop making a scene.
16:12Apologize to Evelyn.
16:14After the Dawn Rite is over, I can take you flying alone for a while.
16:18I looked at him and remembered a promise he had delayed for six years.
16:28Six years ago, poisonous Dragon Bane smoke made by bounty hunters had damaged my lungs.
16:34At night, I coughed until I spat blood.
16:37Beside the bed, Austin had held my hand.
16:41When you're better, I'll take you through the Dawn Rite.
16:46I'll let you sit in my second saddle and see the clearest starlight in the north.
16:52He had delayed that promise for six years.
16:55Now he had written it into an accompanying duty and used it as a step to condescend to me.
17:01I'm not going.
17:03Austin's face darkened.
17:05What did you say?
17:07I said I'm not going.
17:14Ivy, don't take my concession for Blantettid.
17:23The liquid bit into my skin and my hand twitched, but I didn't utter a word.
17:28He saw it, but he only looked away.
17:33I gave you a chance.
17:35You refused it yourself.
17:36Don't come crying to me later.
17:38I won't.
17:48It did not hurt.
17:49It truly did not hurt anymore.
17:51The pain that should have made me cry only made my decision clearer.
18:01Time passed quickly.
18:03Soon it was next Wednesday.
18:05The day of the Dawn Rite.
18:06The day my resignation took effect.
18:09The day I left the Capitol.
18:10I dragged my only trunk to Dragonspire to return the last lair badge.
18:15The border caravan would leave that afternoon.
18:18I had not wanted to look at any more lists.
18:20But the scribe at the contract hall called after me.
18:24Ivy, are you sure you won't be accompanying the Rite today?
18:28There is a new route change document you need to sign for.
18:34Commander Austin has cancelled his duty for today's Dawn Rite.
18:38He has applied for a private northern route.
18:41Companion Evelyn.
18:42Reason.
18:43Escorting a new old draconic apprentice to the Aurora Rite.
18:47Standing at the door of the contract hall.
18:49I suddenly found it a little funny.
18:51So he had not given me the place meant for Evelyn.
18:54He had handed his original duty to someone else and taken Evelyn on a more private journey to the northern
18:59lights.
18:59I did not go to the lounge to find him.
19:02I did not ask a single question.
19:04I only dropped the lair badge into the return box.
19:14Eight years.
19:16I'm finally free.
19:21When Austin returned to the lair, the storm dragon refused to land.
19:24It circled above Dragonspire, crying low in its throat.
19:27Its tail sweeping past the landing platform again and again as if searching for something.
19:31The riders fell into chaos.
19:34Commander, is its wound hurting again?
19:36Austin frowned.
19:37His first instinct was to call Ivy's name.
19:42Where is Ivy?
19:44No one answered.
19:46Only then did he realize he had not received a single medicine reminder from Ivy all day.
19:50No one had brought the storm dragon's pain-dulling ergs to the landing platform either.
19:53He took out his sending stone and sent a message to Ivy.
19:55The sending stone did not light.
19:56Only one cold line appeared.
19:58The lair contract has been terminated.
20:00He froze.
20:04Austin, is Ivy still angry?
20:08Do you want me to talk to her?
20:12Back to the lair.
20:14For the first time, panicking with his voice.
20:21The door to the apothecary room was pushed open.
20:23It was so clean it did not look like a place where Ivy had spent eight years.
20:26New handover labels were pasted on the medicine cabinets.
20:29The apothecary inventory was arranged by date.
20:31The storm dragon's old wound records lay neatly on the table.
20:33It was after returning from the north.
20:34If the dragon breath turns cold, reduce the dose by half.
20:36The storm dragon's right wing is recovering well.
20:39Its breath is still affected by emotion.
20:41Keep unfamiliar people away.
20:44From this day forward, Ivy is no longer responsible for Commander Austin or his dragon.
20:48Austin, I am returning these eight years to the lair.
20:51You and I end here.
20:57Ivy.
20:59At last, he panicked.
21:04I had already reached Greyvale.
21:06The wind in the border valley was clean.
21:08When I rented the abandoned herb cottage, the roof still leaked.
21:12And the old dragon shed in the backyard was overgrown with weeds.
21:16Aren't you afraid to live here alone?
21:18I placed my herb books on the windowsill.
21:20Outside the window, there was no towering dragon's fire.
21:24Only low hills and a line of wild grass bent by the wind.
21:27No.
21:28That night, I lay on rough linen sheets and listened to the creek in the distance.
21:32No roar of dragon wings.
21:34No court alarms.
21:36No waiting.
21:37For the first time in eight years, I did not wake from a dream afraid that his dragon's
21:42wound had split open again.
21:43I turned over and slept deeply.
21:46For once, no one called my name because they needed medicine.
21:49No one demanded I be reasonable.
21:51No one asked me to make room for another woman.
21:54I closed my eyes.
21:55Tomorrow, everything starts over.
22:01The next day, Austen went to the lair steward.
22:04Withdraw Ivy's resignation.
22:06The lair steward looked at him in silence for a long time.
22:09Commander, the application has already taken effect.
22:11The lair contract has also been terminated.
22:14Then sign it again.
22:18Ivy is not in the capital.
22:20It cannot be signed again without her.
22:22Where did she go?
22:23Austin's face darkened.
22:25That is private.
22:27He turned and went to the royal archive.
22:29Every lair apothecary's work records were stored there.
22:35These are Ivy's eight years of apothecary records.
22:39Austin opened the first book.
22:40Red ink recorded the first time the storm dragon went berserk.
22:43Blue ink recorded the recovery period for the burn on his right hand.
22:46After that came Ivy's daily doses, pre-patrol checks and notes on abnormal dragon breath.
22:50Page after page.
22:50For entire books, not one page held a complaint.
22:52Only times, doses, wound recovery, and patrol risks.
22:55For the first time, Austen saw Ivy's eight years.
22:59Nora stood in the doorway.
23:00Looking at him coldly.
23:01In her hand was an old sending wreck.
23:03So now you know she wasn't just sulking?
23:06Austen lifted his head.
23:08His voice was hoarse.
23:10Why didn't she tell me?
23:12She didn't tell you?
23:13Nora laughed once.
23:14Six years ago, poisonous dragon bird smoke made by bounty hunters damaged her lungs.
23:18She was coughing so hard at the infirmary she could barely speak.
23:22When she sent you a message, what did you say back?
23:26Austen's face went pale.
23:27You said, don't let something small affect my control over the storm dragon.
23:32I didn't know it was that serious.
23:34Of course you didn't.
23:37Because later, she lied and said it was just a cough.
23:41And the night her mother was dying?
23:43She waited outside the infirmary all night and came back during the day to mix your medicine.
23:47She asked you to stay with her for a while.
23:52You said you had to help Evelyn practice old draconic.
23:56And the time the dragon saddle snapped?
23:58You thought you were lucky?
23:59Ivy found the loose strap first and used her own wrist to block it.
24:03The burn scar on her wrist still hasn't faded.
24:06The archivist turned to another page.
24:07An incident report was tucked there.
24:09My name was signed at the bottom.
24:10And the report was a medicine record.
24:11The record showed that Ivy had changed.
24:12Austen salved three times that night.
24:14She had calmed the storm dragon's breath twice.
24:15For her own wrist, she had only rubbed on a thin layer of ointment.
24:23For the first time, Austen truly faced the vast, cold truth before him.
24:27What he owed Ivy was not one.
24:29Dawn Wright, it was not one second saddle nameplate.
24:31It was not even one late.
24:32Apology, it was eight years.
24:34Footsteps sounded outside the door.
24:35Austen, why did you suddenly have someone cancel my temporary lair pass?
24:40I still need to get materials from the lair.
24:42She saw the files spread across the table and froze.
24:45You're going through Ivy's files?
24:47Warmth he used to have when looking at her was gone.
24:49Who let you in?
24:50Evelyn bit her lip.
24:51I was just worried about you.
24:52She left, that's all.
24:54Why are you losing control over a lair apothecary?
24:56A lair apothecary, even the archivist frowned at those words.
25:01Hand over your pass.
25:04Austen.
25:05I said, hand it over.
25:08His voice was cold.
25:09You're driving me away because of her?
25:11Not because of her.
25:14Because I finally see you.
25:23Evelyn was still crying when she was taken to the side hall of the court.
25:26She had never seen Austen like this.
25:27Austen, why are you taking this out on me?
25:29Evelyn's eyes were red.
25:30She did not let the tears fall.
25:31Did I-I've say something again?
25:35I told you the dawn right place could be given back to her.
25:37You're the one who insisted on arranging it for me.
25:41You knew the second saddle list would be sent to Ivy, didn't you?
25:44Evelyn's face whitened.
25:45I don't know what you're talking about.
25:48And that scale.
25:51Did you wear it for her to see on purpose?
25:53You gave it to me.
25:54Evelyn's voice rose.
25:55Austen, you're the one who let me into the lair.
25:59You're the one who let me stand beside you.
26:01You're the one who made everyone think I was special.
26:07Now Ivy is gone, and you're blaming everything on me?
26:10Austen did not refute her because she was right.
26:12The person who had given Evelyn those favors was Austen.
26:14The person who had pushed Ivy into the corner was also Austen.
26:17Evelyn softened her voice at once.
26:18I was just scared.
26:22Without you protecting me,
26:25the court won't give me any place at all.
26:28So what you wanted wasn't me.
26:31It was the place at court, the lair pass, and the Elder Council permissions I asked for on your behalf.
26:38Evelyn finally stopped pretending.
26:40So what if it was?
26:44Evelyn shrieked.
26:45Evelyn shrieked.
26:46Without you, how could I ever get close to the Storm Dragon?
26:49How would the Elder Council ever remember my name?
26:52If you take all of that back now, what am I supposed to do?
26:55The last warmth in Austen's eyes disappeared.
26:58He ordered the scribe to read the document aloud on the spot.
27:00Evelyn's private lair pass is revanked.
27:03The Storm Dragon sale is to be returned.
27:06All Elder Council permissions requested for her by Commander Austen are withdrawn.
27:11Austen! You can't do this!
27:14Austen did not look at her again.
27:16Evelyn cried after him for a long time,
27:19but this time he did not turn back to explain for her.
27:22When he returned to the lair,
27:24the Storm Dragon lay deep inside the cavern and refused to approach him.
27:28He reached out to touch its brow ridge.
27:30The Storm Dragon turned its head away.
27:32Austen's hand stopped amid a hill at night.
27:35He finally understood.
27:36Some trust, once betrayed,
27:38could not be repaired by taking back what he had given someone else.
27:41He had punished Evelyn,
27:42but the empty lair still did not give Ivy back.
27:53Austen did not clean anything away.
27:55The apothecary room was to clean.
27:57There was nothing left for him to fix.
27:58Only the records Ivy had left remained on the table,
28:01their page edges stained faint blue by medicine.
28:03He sat in Ivy's apothecary room and read those records page by page.
28:07At the end,
28:08the Storm Dragon suddenly raised its head and let out a low call toward the west.
28:12A dragon remembered the person who had healed its wounds and guarded its lair.
28:15Following the Storm Dragon's reaction,
28:16Austen found out that the Greyvale caravan had stopped in the western territory.
28:19He brought a newly carved second saddle nameplate with him.
28:21He also took one of the Storm Dragon's heart scales.
28:23He thought that if he placed this late acknowledgement in front of Ivy,
28:26she would sigh helplessly like before and forgive him.
28:28He was too arrogant.
28:30The wind in Greyvale was still warm.
28:32Ivy was changing the soil for a moon-frost herb in the yard.
28:34Her hands stained with dirt.
28:35The old woman next door came over with a bowl of honeyed herbal tea.
28:38Ivy, take a rest.
28:39Have something sweet.
28:45Thank you.
28:46Ivy washed her hands and sat under the eaves with the tea.
28:49Just then, the half-closed wooden gate creaked open.
28:52Ivy turned.
28:53Austen stood outside, dusty from travel.
28:56His eyes read.
28:58Ivy.
28:59I found you.
29:04Austen's arrival did not even make the bowl in my hand tremble.
29:12This place doesn't receive court riders.
29:14My voice was even.
29:15He strode in and closed the gate behind him.
29:17If this had been before, I would already have risen to pour him tea
29:19and ask whether his old injury hurt.
29:21Now I only sat there.
29:22Ivy, I was wrong.
29:24I revoked all of Evelyn's passes and took back that scale.
29:28From now on, only your name
29:31will be carved onto the storm dragon's second saddle.
29:35What does any of that have to do with me?
29:39He froze.
29:40He froze.
29:47I brought you something.
29:53I should have given this to you eight years ago.
29:56His hands shook.
30:02Is it too late now?
30:04I looked at the heart scale.
30:08Austen, if you had brought me these eight years ago,
30:11they would have meant acknowledgement.
30:15Now they are only compensation.
30:22Austen's face went pale.
30:24It isn't compensation.
30:26I really...
30:27Do you think I left because I never sat in the second saddle?
30:30His voice stopped.
30:31I left because I finally understood that you never meant to let me stand beside you.
30:35The yard went quiet.
30:38I read your records.
30:39The poison smoke.
30:41Your mother's last night.
30:42The saddle accident.
30:45I didn't know you carried so much alone.
30:47You didn't fail to know.
30:48My voice was soft.
30:50You chose not to.
30:51It was as if the words nailed him in place.
30:53Ivy, I really can't live without you.
30:57You can.
30:58I stepped back and avoided his reaching hand.
31:00You just can't live without the person who kept your herb stove burning,
31:04repaired your dragon saddle,
31:06and cleaned up your messes.
31:08His lips trembled.
31:09I love you.
31:11I looked at him and suddenly felt tired.
31:15Austen,
31:16love is not something you remember only after you lose it.
31:20He could not say a single word.
31:22I had once wanted proof that I belonged in his sky.
31:25Now I pointed toward the gate and told him to leave.
31:32Go.
31:36Ivy.
31:39Don't come here again.
31:42After I said it, I thought it would hurt.
31:44It did not.
31:45My chest was quiet for the first time in years.
31:48When I came out after washing the bowl,
31:50he was still standing in the yard.
31:52The night wind in Greyvale was cool,
31:55lifting the edge of his cloak.
32:05I'm sorry.
32:06Then he turned,
32:08opened the gate,
32:08and walked away step by step.
32:14The next day,
32:15I asked the village head to send the heart scale back to the court.
32:20Are you sure you want to return this?
32:22Yes.
32:24It was never mine.
32:26As for the nameplate,
32:28I placed it at the bottom of an old wooden trunk.
32:30Not because I treasured it.
32:32I simply did not want to make room for it in my heart anymore.
32:39That was the last thing Austin left in Greyvale,
32:42and even that no longer mattered.
32:44Some departures deserve to be witnessed.
32:47His did not.
32:56After Austin left Greyvale,
32:58my life became completely peaceful again.
33:01Nora told me through the sending stone
33:03that Austin had fallen gravely ill after he returned.
33:06He burned with fever for three days,
33:08and even the storm dragon refused to let him approach.
33:11After that incident,
33:13he petitioned the elder council to leave the northern storm patrol,
33:16and no longer serve in any patrols connected to the Don Rite.
33:20I heard he stared at the right side's second saddle whenever he saw it.
33:24He almost had an accident on the landing platform.
33:28The elder council had no choice but to let him escort cargo dragon carts instead.
33:33And Evelyn?
33:35Once she lost Austin's protection,
33:38every lair pass and elder council permission she had gained through him was taken back.
33:42The apprentices whose attention she had once stolen all avoided her.
33:46Unable to bear the cold shoulders,
33:48she left the old draconic training hall on her own.
33:51I looked at the words on the sending stone and felt nothing.
33:54Their endings had nothing to do with me anymore.
33:57Nora paused,
33:58then added one more sentence.
34:01They finally lost the things they thought they could steal from you.
34:18A month later,
34:20the royal council hall sent an archivist to Greyvale.
34:23He brought a formal ruling.
34:25The ruling was clear.
34:26For the past eight years,
34:28Austin had let me carry the duties of a lair apothecary without giving me a formal title,
34:33pay or contractual protection.
34:36He voluntarily offered the tower residents two shops and a sum of gold as compensation.
34:42Ivy,
34:43do you accept?
34:46He probably thought I would refuse.
34:49After all,
34:50to the people in the capital,
34:52accepting compensation was the same as admitting that the relationship was completely over.
34:57I accept.
34:59I did not hesitate.
35:01This was not his charity.
35:03It was the mornings,
35:04late nights,
35:05and winter winds that had never been written into my contract.
35:08It was what I had earned standing beside the herb stove again and again,
35:12coughing through the pain.
35:14It was mine.
35:15At the end of the document,
35:17there was a private note.
35:18The handwriting was Austin's.
35:20I finally understand.
35:22What you loved was not the high sky from a dragon's back,
35:26but a place where you could stand safely.
35:28I was wrong.
35:29I looked at it for a while.
35:31I was not moved.
35:32I did not soften.
35:34There was only a faint ache for the version of me who had spent countless nights waiting for one answer.
35:39I tucked the note into the bottom of the contract book.
35:42It was only an old document filed away.
35:47The day the Grey Veil Dragon Wound Sanctuary opened,
35:50the sky was still dark.
35:54Ivy,
35:56I quit my post as court scribe.
35:58I came to Grey Veil to help you.
36:01The ledger is yours.
36:04Then I really get to control the accounts.
36:07Then they're yours to control.
36:09Together,
36:10we hung the first wooden sign by the gate.
36:12Sign,
36:13Grey Veil Dragon Wound.
36:15The village head had carved the sign for us.
36:18The edges were not perfectly even.
36:20But when sunlight touched it,
36:22every cut mark shone.
36:24The name was not elegant.
36:26It was not grand.
36:27But I liked it.
36:29It looks like freedom.
36:31Then it is good enough.
36:33For the first time,
36:34the place I stood in belonged to me.
36:36This time,
36:37the work on the table was not for Austin,
36:39not for the royal court.
36:40And not for any promise I had to keep for someone else.
36:43It was mine.
37:11It was mine.
37:13The little wyvern who came near,
37:14I changed its bandages for half a month.
37:18Today was its first flight attempt.
37:20The village children gathered outside the old dragon shed.
37:23Holding their breath as they watched,
37:25Nora hugged the ledger to her chest.
37:29Don't be nervous.
37:30But her fingers had wrinkled the edge of the paper.
37:33I crouched and untied the final bandage around the little wyvern's wing.
37:37Don't be afraid.
37:40The little wyvern let out a low sound.
37:43It shook its wings.
37:44Then stumbled forward the first time.
37:46It did not take off.
37:47The children gasped.
37:50Will it fall?
37:53No.
37:54Let it try again.
37:55The second time it failed too.
37:57The little wyvern dug its claws into the dirt.
38:00Shaking but refusing to retreat.
38:06I watched it and suddenly saw a version of myself in those days.
38:10I carried all my wounds and kept struggling,
38:12too stubborn to let go.
38:21The third time,
38:22the little wyvern caught the morning wind of the valley and left the ground.
38:25It did not fly high.
38:26It was even a little clumsy.
38:27But it crossed the grassy slope,
38:28passed through the thin mist,
38:29and landed steadily on the stone ridge beneath the first light of dawn.
38:33The children cheered.
38:34Nora stood beside me and said softly,
38:36Look.
38:38It flew.
38:39The wind from the valley came toward us.
38:41It carried no bitter smoke in the lair's medicines.
38:42No incense from the royal court's halls.
38:44And none of the cold iron smell that always clung to Austin's cloak.
38:47It passed over the grass and the creek, clean and clear.
38:49I watched the little wyvern open its wings again in the morning light.
38:51Suddenly, I thought of how stubbornly I had once wanted to sit in Austin's second saddle.
38:56I had wanted to see the sky through his eyes.
38:59But now I finally understood.
39:01I did not need to sit behind anyone.
39:04I did not need to wait for any dragon to come home.
39:07The lives I saved with my own hands would fly toward the sky for me,
39:10again and again.
39:13I stood at the entrance of the sanctuary,
39:15the warmth of the little wyvern's scales still lingering in my palm.
39:20I never rode on his dragon's back.
39:25But I finally had a direction of my own.
39:28But I could run The Frasera Rain in my home.
39:31I haven't even tried to wait for you.
39:33But I