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00:00Je suis la fille de la vraie dragon.
00:03Mais le jour où j'ai eu l'ai eu, mon husband Varys carried mes enfants avec ses propres mains.
00:17Le dragon crystal était très cold.
00:20Je suis allé dans un pool de sang, mes fingertips digging dans les seins de la stone,
00:24ma voix horny enough à sound comme quelqu'un d'autre.
00:28Varys, give me back my children.
00:30Le deux newborns cried in his arms.
00:32Each cry stabbed him,
00:33hurting more than the tearing of flesh and bone during labour.
00:36Isolid stood below the steps of the throne,
00:38wrapped in a snow-white cloak.
00:39Her eyes red, as if she were the one who had suffered every injustice.
00:42Sister, don't be like this.
00:44She reached out and took the children,
00:46her voice as light as a scythe.
00:48I only want to share your burden.
00:50You have just given birth.
00:52Your body is too weak.
00:54Trembling, I crawled toward her.
00:55They are not a burden.
00:58They are my children.
00:59Varys looked down at me.
01:01There was no tenderness in his eyes, only impatience.
01:03He blocked my hand with one foot.
01:05Enough, Elana.
01:07I clenched my teeth and lifted my head.
01:10I beg you, let me hold them once.
01:13Just once.
01:15Isolid hugged the children tight and took half a step back.
01:18Varys, perhaps I should not have come.
01:21Sister seems to hate me so much.
01:23Varys immediately stood in front of her.
01:25As if shielding the most precious treasure in the world.
01:29Her soul is unstable.
01:30She can never bear children.
01:31His voice was cold.
01:33You are her elder sister.
01:35What is wrong with fulfilling her wish this once?
01:37Would you really watch her suffer for the rest of her life?
01:40I laughed until blood spilled from my mouth.
01:42Fulfill her wish with my flesh and blood.
01:46His brows drew tighter.
01:49Do not make yourself sound so pitiful.
01:51You are already the commander's wife.
01:53Is that still not enough?
01:55I looked at the children in his arms.
01:57My little daughter had cried until her face was red.
02:00My little son's dragon arms were no bigger than fingertips.
02:03Glowing faintly.
02:04They should have been against my chest.
02:06Listening to my heartbeat.
02:07But Varys turned and left.
02:09When Isolette passed by me.
02:10She lowered her head and smiled softly.
02:14Thank you sister.
02:16In that moment.
02:16I learned that when a person's heart is hollowed out.
02:19She can still remain alive.
02:21And breathe.
02:24That was eight years ago.
02:26Eight years later.
02:27I finally understood that what had been carried away that day.
02:30Was not only my children.
02:31But also my last hope of ever being loved.
02:36The dragon king of the western realm found me very late.
02:40Before that.
02:41I had grown up outside the dragon nest.
02:44Like an abandoned wild beast.
02:47Later they said I was the lost daughter of the true dragon.
02:50And they brought me back to the royal city.
02:53Giving me fine clothes.
02:54A name.
02:55And an old betrothal contract.
02:59When I married Varys.
03:00He was the dragon bone commander.
03:02Cold.
03:03Powerful.
03:03And disgusted by me.
03:05On our wedding night.
03:06He did not lift my bridle Leld.
03:08He only stood by the door and said.
03:10Elana.
03:10I married you only because of the betrothal.
03:12I asked softly.
03:14And afterwards.
03:16Do not covet what does not belong to you.
03:17He did not even look at me.
03:20A year later.
03:21He married Isolette.
03:23She was a false dragon daughter.
03:25Yet she looked more loved.
03:26Than I ever did.
03:27My parents doted on her.
03:29The servants respected her.
03:31And Varys protected her.
03:33Later.
03:33Even my children called her mother.
03:36After eight years of marriage.
03:38The dragon god appeared again.
03:40A silver spirit body hovered above the outer keep.
03:43Its light illuminating my empty room.
03:46The trial is over.
03:48Varys' soul love has reached completion.
03:50You may strip away your dragon soul and leave this world.
03:54Or you may remain.
03:56I stared at him blankly.
03:57He loves me.
03:58The words were so absurd I almost wanted to laugh.
04:01He gave hatred to our wedding night.
04:03Gave my children to Isled.
04:06And gave all his tenderness to someone else.
04:10Dragon god, are you certain you have not seen wrong?
04:12The dragon god's gaze remained gentle.
04:15The love of the soul does not always appear as tenderness.
04:18Then how does it appear?
04:20As humiliation?
04:21Neglect?
04:22Or forcing me to kneel outside the door and listen to my children call another woman mother?
04:26The dragon god was silent.
04:28My tears finally fell.
04:30But not because I could not bear to leave Varys.
04:32I want to leave.
04:34Before the separation you have one day.
04:36The dragon god said.
04:38You may say goodbye.
04:39I thought of Lucien and Avaria.
04:42Even if they refused to acknowledge me.
04:44I wanted to see them one last time.
04:46So I went to the crystal corridor.
04:49Lucien was six.
04:50Standing in the light.
04:52His small dragon horns glimmering faintly.
04:55When he saw me the first thing he said was.
04:57Why are you here again?
05:01Lucien stepped back warily as if he had seen something filthy.
05:04Didn't I tell you not to come?
05:06If mother sees me talking to you.
05:08She will be sad.
05:10I crouched in front of him and tried to make my smile gentle.
05:13I only came to say goodbye.
05:15He frowned.
05:17Goodbye?
05:18Are you pretending to be pitiful again?
05:21My hand froze in midair.
05:25After today.
05:27We will not see each other again.
05:30Lucien paused.
05:31But his face quickly turned cold again.
05:33You say that every time.
05:35Are you trying to make me feel sorry for you so you can make mother cry?
05:41Lucien.
05:41I called his name softly.
05:43I am not trying to take you away.
05:46You are lying.
05:48Hatred filled his eyes.
05:50Mother said you have always wanted to steal me and my sister back.
05:54Why can't you leave us alone?
05:59Before I could answer, Varys' voice came from behind me.
06:04Elana.
06:05As he approached, the entire corridor seemed to grow colder.
06:12He seized my arm and dragged me into the room beside us.
06:16The door slammed shut, leaving Lucien outside.
06:20What exactly are you trying to do?
06:22Varys lowered his voice.
06:25Lucien and Aurelia were raised by Iselth.
06:28Must you expose their bloodline in front of them and make them suffer?
06:30I wrenched free of his hand.
06:33I am their birth mother.
06:35I only wanted to say goodbye before I die.
06:39Die.
06:39He sneered.
06:40Dragons do not die easily.
06:42Elana, do not use such words to trick others into pitying you.
06:46I am not lying to you.
06:48Then go apologize to Iseleth.
06:50He stared at me.
06:52Promise that from now on you will never disturb her family again.
06:58Her family, my husband, my children, the blood I had shed in childbirth.
07:02In the end, all of it had become her, her family.
07:05Suddenly, I became very calm.
07:13Varys, if one day I truly died, would you regret it?
07:19A flicker of impatience passed through his eyes.
07:22I would only regret having indulged you too much in the beginning.
07:27I nodded.
07:29All right.
07:31I will remember that.
07:35Outside the door, a maid's panicked voice suddenly rang out.
07:38Commander, something is wrong.
07:40Miss Aurelia's dragon breath is unstable, and she is crying for Lady Elana's scent.
07:44Varys' expression changed, and he turned immediately.
07:47Looking at his back, I whispered, so she finally still remembers me.
07:52But that one memory almost cost me my life.
07:58Aurelia still remembered my scent.
08:00That alone was enough to make my heart ache, until it softened.
08:06I returned to the outer keep and took out a soul crystal.
08:09The stone was cold in my palm.
08:11I cut my wrist open and let true dragon blood seep into it, drop by drop.
08:16When the blood fell into the crystal, silver-blue light flared.
08:19But my chest felt as if it had been torn open, and black dragon blood surged into my throat.
08:26The dragon god's voice sounded.
08:33Before the separation, your soul will split.
08:37Your blood will grow cold.
08:39And life will slowly leave your body.
08:43I wipe the blood from the corner of my mouth.
08:46It does not matter.
08:48I am very good at enduring pain.
08:52A child raised in the bone wasteland learns first not to cry, but to keep silent.
09:00Crying draws monsters.
09:02Saying it hurts only makes others think you are easier to bully.
09:06I carried the soul crystal to Silvermoon Tower.
09:09Inside the tower, warm light shone and soft fragrance drifted, as if it were another world.
09:15Lucian stood at the door and blocked me.
09:18What are you doing here again?
09:20Auraria wants my dragon breath.
09:22I brought it to her.
09:24Leave it here.
09:25He reached out and snatched the soul crystal away.
09:28You cannot go in.
09:30Mother will be unhappy.
09:36I looked at the figures through the crack in the door.
09:39Auradia lay in Isaleth's arms, calling her softly.
09:43Mother.
09:44Isalade lowered her head and kissed her forehead.
09:51Good child. Mother is here.
09:54Vera sat beside them, tucking Isalem's cloak around her.
09:57His voice was so gentle I nearly failed to recognize it.
10:00You have worked hard.
10:02I stood outside the door, my wrists still bleeding.
10:06Isaleth suddenly lifted her eyes and saw me.
10:08The corner of her mouth curved.
10:11Holding my daughter, she mouthed silently to me.
10:15See?
10:16She only recognizes me.
10:18I lowered my eyes and turned away.
10:24But before I had gone far, a scream suddenly came from inside the tower.
10:29Cups and dishes shattered.
10:30A maid rushed out in the panic.
10:32Something has happened to the soul-calming crystal!
10:36Lady Isalyn is coughing blood!
10:39Before I could return to the Outer Keep, Varys came after me.
10:43He seized my wrist, his grip almost crushing the bones.
10:47Elena, you have grown bold indeed.
10:50Pain darkened my vision.
10:52Let go.
10:53You placed a soul-splitting curse in the crystal.
10:55His voice was as cold as snow.
10:57After Isluet touched it, her dragon soul became unstable, and Auroria vomited blood as well.
11:01I froze.
11:03Impossible.
11:04There was only my blood inside.
11:08Your blood?
11:09He laughed in fury.
11:10Do you think I would believe that?
11:12You can have the High Priest examine it.
11:14Before the matter is clarified, you will apologize to her first.
11:18He dragged me back to the front of Silvermoon Tower.
11:21Wind and snow struck my face, and I could barely stand.
11:25Lucian rushed out, his eyes frighteningly red.
11:28You hurt my sister!
11:30Lucian, I did not!
11:31You are still arguing!
11:33Flames of a young dragon lit on his little horns, and he slammed fiercely into my abdomen.
11:37I fell into the snow.
11:39My ribs felt broken, and my throat filled with the taste of blood.
11:42I hate you!
11:43He cried.
11:44Why don't you just die if you died?
11:46Mother would never be sad again!
11:48Only after those words fell did Varys finally pull him away.
11:50I looked up at Vase, thinking he would at least say,
11:53Enough.
11:54But he only said coldly,
11:55Until Isoleth and Auraria recover.
11:57Kneel here and reflect on your wrongdoing.
11:59I knelt in the snow, the blood from my wrist freezing dark red.
12:03Inside Silvermoon Tower, the lamps were warm.
12:06My children were crying there, and my husband was guarding another woman.
12:09What if it turns out it was not me?
12:11He was silent for a moment.
12:13Then I will apologize.
12:15Apologize?
12:16Such a light word.
12:17Soon, the High Priest walked out of the tower, his face grave.
12:20Commander, the result is out.
12:22I lifted my head and saw Varys' face finally change.
12:28The High Priest said in a low voice,
12:31There is no curse.
12:32The crystal contains only true dragon blood.
12:35Miss Aurelia was merely frightened,
12:36and Lady Izzel's dragon soul briefly became unstable because of overexertion.
12:41The sound of snow suddenly seemed very loud.
12:44Varys froze where he stood.
12:46Lucian stood inside the tower door.
12:48Even after hearing the truth, he only clutched Isoleth's skirt tighter and did not look at me.
12:54Varys came toward me as if he meant to help me up.
12:57Elena, I'm sorry.
13:01I did not give him my hand.
13:03He frowned.
13:04Lucian was only worried about his sister.
13:07He does not truly hate you.
13:09I wanted very much to ask.
13:10Then what would count as true hatred?
13:12Was it making me me kneel in the snow,
13:14letting my own child curse me to death?
13:16Or asking me to swallow all the pain and then understand them in return?
13:19But I was too tired.
13:21It does not matter.
13:22It will be over soon anyway.
13:24Varys' expression darkened slightly.
13:26What are you saying now?
13:28Before I could answer,
13:30Madam Morwen arrived with guards.
13:33She had been an old attendant by my birth parent's side.
13:36From the first day I returned to the dragon nest,
13:38she had never treated me as a true young lady.
13:41She glanced at me and frowned in disgust.
13:44Lady Alana,
13:45the dragon king and queen were furious when they heard you had harmed Isoleth.
13:48I am here to carry out family discipline.
13:51Varys said coldly,
13:52The matter has already been investigated.
13:54She did not cast a curse.
13:56But Morwen said indifferently,
13:58Yet Lady Isoleth was indeed frightened because of her.
14:01True dragon blood is filthy and uncontrollable.
14:05It deserves punishment.
14:07I lifted my head.
14:10My blood is filthy.
14:12Morwen waved her hand.
14:14Thirty strips with the dragon wax.
14:18When the first lash fell,
14:20I could not even make a sound.
14:22The dragon bit was carved with forbidden runes.
14:25Each strike felt as if my soul were being torn apart.
14:29After thirty trisses,
14:30the snow was dyed red with blood.
14:34Varys finally shouted in anger.
14:36Enough!
14:36But Morwen crouched down and pressed her hand to my chest.
14:39Not enough.
14:40Her most precious heart-guarding scale will be perfect stabilizing Lady Isoleth's dragon soul.
14:45My eyes widened.
14:46The next moment,
14:47she tore away my heart-guarding scale with my force.
14:53When pain reaches its limit,
14:55a person cannot scream.
14:57I only heard something shatter inside my chest.
15:00Morwen held the silver scale as if she were carrying an offering.
15:03Now this is proper.
15:04She sneered.
15:05You owe Lady Isolin far too much.
15:08Varys's face had gone pale.
15:12Morwen, how dare you!
15:14Commander.
15:15Morwen did not yield.
15:18The dragon king and queen will approve of my decision.
15:21Lady Isolene is more important than she is.
15:24More important than she is.
15:25I had heard that too many times already.
15:28Dragging my mangled body,
15:29I crawled toward the outer keep.
15:31Each movement tore open the wounds on my back again against the snow.
15:35Ahead,
15:36the dragon crystal garden was lit.
15:38Varys, Isoleth, Lucien, and Auraria stood there together,
15:41releasing starfire lanterns into the sky.
15:43Isoleth leaned in Varys's arms,
15:45her voice soft.
15:46I hope our family can be together every year.
15:48Varys lowered his head to look at her.
15:51The dragon god were granted.
15:53Lucien held Auraria's hand and shouted with a smile.
15:56Father, mother, the lantern is flying!
15:59I lay in the shadows as my blood slowly drained away.
16:03After they left,
16:05Isolach returned alone.
16:06She crouched in front of me and gripped my chin.
16:09Does it hurt?
16:09I looked at her coldly.
16:11She smiled.
16:12Your parents do not love you.
16:14Varys does not love you and your children do not want you.
16:17Alana, what is the point of you staying alive?
16:19I pushed her hand away.
16:20She leaned close to my ear,
16:22her voice vicious.
16:25If I were you, I would smash my head against the dragon bone pilletal and die.
16:30So I would not be such an eyesore.
16:32I staggered back to the outer keep.
16:34Soon, Lucien's voice came from outside the door.
16:37I do not want to see her.
16:38She deserved to be whipped.
16:39Isolach comforted Varys gently.
16:41She is always like this,
16:43forcing others to pity her.
16:45Just like back then,
16:46when she forced you to honor the betrothal.
16:49Leaning against the door from the inside,
16:51I suddenly laughed.
16:52They had never known that the old betrothal contract
16:55was not a lock I had used to trap Varys.
16:57It had once been my only rope to survival,
17:00and this time,
17:01that rope had snapped too.
17:06My parents had originally planned to give me to a guard
17:08at the northern Fortra.
17:13That guard had already tortured three wives to death.
17:17I knelt all night,
17:18begging them not to send me there.
17:20My mother thought my crying was unlucky.
17:25And my father said,
17:26Since you are the daughter of the true dragon,
17:29you should sacrifice yourself for the dragon clan.
17:32Later,
17:33the old betrothal contract was brought out.
17:36I married Varys,
17:37thinking I had finally escaped hell.
17:39It turned out I had only walked from one hell into another.
17:45How much time is left?
17:47Three hours.
17:48When Varys pushed the door open,
17:52he happened to hear that.
17:53His brows fluttered slightly.
17:55What has three hours left?
17:56I sat by the bed.
17:57Silver gauze covered the hollow wound in my chest.
18:01Phallus,
18:01I really am going to die soon.
18:03He looked at me as if judging what play I was putting on this time.
18:06How long are you going to keep making trouble?
18:09After today,
18:10I will never disturb you and Issal's family again.
18:13At last,
18:14a trace of unease appeared in his eyes.
18:18If you want a child,
18:20I can have another one with you.
18:21He paused,
18:22then added as if granting charity.
18:24This time,
18:26I will let you raise it.
18:27I stared at him blankly
18:28and suddenly felt that he was more powerful than any monster.
18:32What do you think a child is?
18:33Compensation?
18:34A gift?
18:35Or a toy you can toss to me whenever you like?
18:38Varys expression turned ugly.
18:40I am giving you a chance.
18:42I do not want it.
18:44He said in a low voice,
18:46Alana,
18:46do not be ungrateful.
18:48If I could do it all again,
18:50I said looking at him word by word,
18:53I would never meet you.
18:55Varys' lips moved,
18:57but he said nothing.
18:58In the end,
18:59he only left one Furwis behind.
19:01You need to calm down.
19:02I will come see you later.
19:06After the door closed,
19:07the outer keep became completely silent.
19:13At midnight,
19:15I changed into the silver white gown
19:16I had worn on the day of the covenant ceremony
19:18and covered the wound
19:19where my scale had been taken with silver sauce.
19:22Outside the window,
19:23snow fell soundlessly.
19:25The dragon god's voice sounded.
19:28It is time.
19:31Before leaving,
19:32I wanted to make myself a little beautiful.
19:35When I came into this world,
19:36I had been covered in mud,
19:37like a dying beast.
19:39When I left it,
19:40at least I should be clean.
19:42I reached out to catch a snowflake,
19:44but what fell into my palm first
19:45was my own blood.
19:46The dragon god counted down softly.
19:51Five.
19:52The silver white gown lifted in the wind.
19:55Four.
19:56I remembered the cries of the two children
19:58when they had just been born.
19:59Three.
20:00I remembered the first time
20:02Varys held Issa's hand,
20:03not even sparing me a glance.
20:05Two.
20:06I remembered how hard
20:07I had once tried to stay alive.
20:10One.
20:13Separation complete.
20:15This dragon body is dead.
20:20At that same moment,
20:22Silver Moon Tower
20:23suddenly fell into chaos.
20:25Aurelia slipped from Issa's arms,
20:27struck her forehead,
20:28and cried for Mother to hold her.
20:30But Issa's hand,
20:31Issa's hand clutched her chest,
20:32her face pale.
20:33My dragon soul is unstable.
20:35I cannot move.
20:36Lucian held his sister and cried,
20:38accidentally blurring out,
20:40Mother,
20:40didn't you say that as long as you wrote to Grandfather,
20:43Aunt would be beaten?
20:44Didn't you say Father hated her,
20:46and that it would be best if she died?
20:48Varys jerked his head up.
20:49Issa's face changed abruptly.
20:52Lucian, shut up!
20:53But it was already too late.
20:54Varys rushed out of Silver Moon Tower,
20:56black flames almost burning through the wind and snow.
20:59His carriage crashed through the courtyard gate.
21:01A dragon servant stumbled over.
21:03His sharp voice twisted out of shape.
21:06Commander!
21:07Lady Alana has died in the snow!
21:09Her dragon soul has gone out!
21:11Varys rushed into the courtyard of the Outer Keep.
21:14I lay in the snow.
21:15My silver-white gown spread around me
21:17like a wedding that had come too late.
21:19He knelt beside me,
21:21his fingers trembling as he lifted the silver scloss.
21:24Beneath it,
21:25my chest was hollow.
21:28There was no longer the slightest light of a dragon soul there.
21:31Varys seemed to have been seized by the throat.
21:33A long time passed before he could make a sound.
21:37Summon the High Priest.
21:39No one moved.
21:40He suddenly roared.
21:41I said summon the High Priest to save her!
21:43When the High Priest arrived,
21:45his knees nearly gave way.
21:46After examining me,
21:47he said in a trembling voice,
21:49Commander,
21:50the lady's soul has already left her body.
21:52She suffered the dragon wipe
21:53and had her heart-guarding scale stripped away.
21:55that this body lasted until now is already a miracle.
21:58Holding my corpse,
22:00Varys's eyes cracked open piece by piece.
22:03Who stripped her scale?
22:06The servants knelt all over the ground.
22:09It was Madame Morwen.
22:11She said...
22:11She said it was for Lady Isolette.
22:14Varys lowered his head and looked at me.
22:16There was still frozen blood at the corner of my lips,
22:18but my expression was very quiet.
22:20It was not sleep.
22:22It was finally no longer having to endure.
22:24He suddenly remembered the soul crystal.
22:26The High Priest examined it again,
22:28his voice even lower.
22:29There is no curse inside,
22:31only true dragon blood,
22:32and the last breath of the lady's dragon soul
22:34used to soothe Miss Auriria.
22:36Varys' hand tightened violently.
22:38So when she knelt in the snow,
22:39she had already been wronged.
22:40No one dared answer.
22:42When the children were brought in,
22:43they still did not understand what death meant.
22:46Lucien looked at my motionless face,
22:49his voice shaking.
22:49Why won't she wake up?
22:52Aurelia clutched the soul crystal
22:53and cried until she could hardly breathe.
22:56Aunt, does it hurt?
22:57No one answered,
22:58but the soul crystal suddenly glowed
23:00with silver-blue light.
23:02Varys jerked his head up.
23:05Inside the crystal,
23:07my memories began to appear.
23:10The soul crystal showed me
23:12standing outside Silvermoon Tower.
23:16That night,
23:18Illuria's dragon breath went out of control
23:20for the first time.
23:23Isolette thought her crying was too noisy
23:25and handed her to a maid.
23:32It was I who stood outside the window all night,
23:35sending dragon breath little by little into the room.
23:38Watching the image,
23:40Aurelia cried so hard
23:42she could barely stand.
23:45It was her that night?
23:47No one dared answer.
23:49The scene changed.
23:51Lucien fell from a crystal wall.
23:53Everyone was watching Isoleth perform,
23:56and only I lunged forward
23:58to cushion him beneath me.
24:00The crystal cut open my back,
24:02yet the first thing I asked was,
24:04Lucien,
24:06are you hurt anywhere?
24:08Little Lucien was frightened into tears,
24:11but he was quickly carried away by servants.
24:14A servant whispered,
24:18Do not let Lady Isoleth know Alana
24:21touched the young master,
24:22or she will be unhappy.
24:27Lucien stared at the soul crystal,
24:29his lips turning pale.
24:34I didn't know.
24:35The soul crystal continued.
24:37He saw himself telling me again and again,
24:41Stay away from us.
24:49He saw Aurelia holding the little cloak
24:52I had sewn by hand,
24:54only for Isoleth
24:55to claim she had made it.
24:58He saw me writing medicine notes
25:00in the outer keep.
25:04Lucien should avoid cold wind
25:06during his scale-shedding period.
25:12Aurelia needs warm stones
25:13when her dragon breath is weak.
25:18Every line was meticulous,
25:20as if I feared they might suffer
25:22even a little more.
25:23Varys stood there
25:24like a collapsed stone statue.
25:27He had always known
25:28the children were born from me.
25:31Yet he had given them to Isoleth,
25:33then called me selfish.
25:36That night,
25:37every lamp in Silvermoon Tower
25:39went out.
25:40Varys walked alone into my room
25:42and found the silver wedding robe.
25:46Only then did he finally remember
25:48the day of the covenant.
25:50He had thought I coveted power,
25:52that I had used the old betrothed
25:54to trap him.
25:57until an old servant
25:59knelt at the door
26:00and spoke the true history.
26:07The old servant's voice trembled.
26:09Commander,
26:10Lady Alana did not force you.
26:12The dragon king and queen
26:14originally meant to send her
26:15to the northern realm.
26:16That guard had already killed
26:18three wives.
26:19The lady knelt all night,
26:20begging them not to send her.
26:22Varys' knuckles slowly turned white.
26:24Why did no one tell me?
26:25The old servant lowered his head.
26:27You did not want to listen.
26:29When the lady first married you,
26:30she tried to explain.
26:32But you said she had even learned
26:33how to imitate misery.
26:35Varys closed his eyes.
26:37The words I had spoken
26:38before my death.
26:39If I could do it all again,
26:43I would never meet you.
26:45Suddenly returned to his chest
26:47like a knife.
26:49The next day,
26:51Madam Morwen was dragged
26:52into Dragonbone Hall.
26:53The dragon whip lay before her.
26:55Varys said only one word.
26:57Whip.
26:58Morwen's face changed dramatically.
27:00Commander,
27:01I was acting under the orders
27:02of the dragon king and queen.
27:04Varys' eyes were dark.
27:06Then let them take the lashes for you.
27:08The first lash fell
27:09and Morwen discreamed.
27:11Her dragon soul
27:12was suppressed by runes
27:14and she rolled wretchedly
27:15on the floor,
27:17nothing left of her usual arrogance.
27:19Watching her,
27:21Atvarys finally understood how,
27:23after thirty lashes that day,
27:25I had dragged my blooded,
27:28ruined back through the garden
27:29and seen him and Isoleth
27:32releasing starfire lanterns.
27:34Isolad was brought in as well.
27:36She began to cry
27:37the moment she entered.
27:40Varys, I did not know.
27:43I truly did not know
27:44when Morwen took the scale.
27:46A servant knelt.
27:49When Madam Morwen
27:50brought the heart-guarding scale over,
27:53Lady Isoleth said
27:54that with pure,
27:55true dragon blood,
27:56losing one scale
27:58would not kill her.
27:59Isoleth Steela's crying
28:00stopped abruptly.
28:01For the first time,
28:02there was no pity
28:03in Atvarys' eyes
28:04when he looked at her.
28:05Send her to the Judgment Tower.
28:10Isoleth collapsed to the floor,
28:12and the bells of the Judgment Tower
28:15began to toll,
28:16one after another.
28:20As Isoleth was dragged away,
28:22she was still crying and shouting.
28:24I was only afraid!
28:25I cannot bear children,
28:27and my dragon soul is unstable.
28:29Everyone said she was the real one.
28:31I only did not want to lose you all!
28:35Varys said coldly,
28:36So you took everything from her?
28:38She had nothing to begin with!
28:40Isoleth screamed.
28:41Her parents did not love her,
28:43and her children did not recognize her.
28:45Even without me,
28:46no one would have wanted her.
28:47The hall fell deathly silent.
28:50Varys drew the dragon bone sword
28:52and set its tip against her throat.
28:55Say that again.
28:57At last,
28:58Isoleth was afraid.
29:00When the dragon king and queen arrived,
29:03they were furious.
29:05Varys!
29:06How dare you punish Morar
29:07and imprison Isoleth!
29:09Varys threw all the evidence
29:10in front of them.
29:11My old wounds,
29:12the soul crystal memories,
29:14Morwen's confession,
29:15and Issanan's accusing letters.
29:16The queen only glanced at them
29:18before turning her face away.
29:19Elana was always gloomy by nature.
29:21Who knows whether those memories
29:22were left by her to frame others.
29:24Varys laughed.
29:25That laugh chilled everyone.
29:31She is already dead.
29:34She has lost even her life.
29:36Who is she supposed to frame?
29:39The dragon king lured,
29:40Misteladine.
29:41Do not forget whom you are speaking to!
29:43Varys turned his sword,
29:45the dragon bone sword
29:46cutting across the stone floor.
29:47Of course I remember.
29:49You are her parents,
29:50and you are also the people
29:52who pushed her towards death.
29:54The queen's face went deathly pale.
29:58Varys said,
29:59word by word,
30:01Touch her name again,
30:04and I will cut down even the king.
30:08After that,
30:09he returned to my outer keep.
30:12In the chest under the bed,
30:14there were little clothes
30:16for Lucienne and Avalia,
30:18medicine notes,
30:19and birthday gifts
30:20that had never been sent.
30:23Each one was written with my love.
30:25For years,
30:27I had loved them silently
30:28and carefully.
30:30Yet I had never been allowed
30:32to claim it.
30:33On the third day,
30:35Varys went to the wishing spirit tree.
30:38He cut open his palm
30:39and spilled dragon blood
30:41into the roots.
30:45Dragon god,
30:46let me see her.
30:50Dragon blood seeped into the roots
30:52and the wishing spirit tree
30:54lit with silver-blue light.
30:55Varys knelt in the snow,
30:57his voice harny.
30:59Let me see her.
31:00I am willing to pay any price.
31:03When the dragon god appeared,
31:06even the wind and snow stopped.
31:09She is alive elsewhere.
31:10Varys jerked his head up,
31:12hopeless hope lighting in his eyes.
31:17Take me to see her.
31:18The dragon god said calmly,
31:21She lives,
31:22but not for you.
31:24Varys' throat moved.
31:28I only want to apologize.
31:30Apologies cannot spare her one lash,
31:33cannot return her children to her arms,
31:35and cannot make her less cold
31:37when she died in the snow.
31:40Varys' face went ashen.
31:42When the soul crystal revealed the truth,
31:45she was still alive.
31:46If you had brought her back then,
31:48if you had healed her wounds,
31:51she would at least have suffered
31:53a little less.
31:54Varys bowed down,
31:56his forehead pressed into the snow.
31:58I was wrong.
31:59You were wrong for many years.
32:01She has already died once.
32:04You cannot force her to return,
32:07cannot bind her with the children,
32:09and cannot demand her forgiveness
32:11because you regret it.
32:13Varys closed his eyes.
32:15If she says she does not need you,
32:17then you may never approach her again.
32:20I understand.
32:22But he understood too late.
32:31Far away from that world,
32:33I opened my eyes.
32:34There was no cold crystal bed
32:36and no snow-covered window.
32:39Soft white bed curtains hung above me.
32:42Sunlight falling on the corner of the quilt.
32:45Someone held my hand,
32:46their palm warm.
32:48A woman looked at me with tears in her eyes.
32:51Do not be afraid.
32:52This is White Tower City.
32:56Her name was Adela,
32:57and she was the owner of the infirmary
32:59in White Tower City.
33:03When I woke,
33:04my first reaction was to draw back my hand.
33:06Adela did not press me.
33:08She only placed hot soup beside the bed.
33:11You do not have to speak yet.
33:14When you want to,
33:15I will listen.
33:18I looked at her,
33:19my voice dry.
33:21You are not going to ask who I am?
33:24She smiled.
33:27Right now,
33:28you are a patient.
33:29The most important thing for a patient
33:31is to survive.
33:36The dragon god had not lied to me.
33:40Here,
33:40there was no dragon king of the western realm,
33:42no true or false dragon daughter,
33:45no At,
33:45Varis,
33:46and no two children who called another woman mother.
33:51Here,
33:52I was only Alana.
33:54White Tower City stood by the sea.
33:57Its streets smelled of bread,
33:59herbs,
34:00and tide water.
34:02Beyond the white walls,
34:04the sea flashed with light every day.
34:09Adela taught me to dry herbs,
34:11to prepare moonflower salve,
34:13and also to listen to patients
34:15finish speaking when they were in pain.
34:18Pain is not lying.
34:20When a person says it hurts,
34:22then it truly hurts.
34:24That sentence left me stunned for a long time.
34:32In the old world,
34:33my pain always had to be proven first.
34:37At first,
34:38I woke from nightmares every night.
34:39I dreamed of the dragon whip falling.
34:43Of Lucian saying,
34:44why don't you just die?
34:46Of Varys ordering me to apologize to Izalith.
34:55Whenever I woke in terror,
34:57Adela would always light a lamp.
35:03You do not need to explain,
35:05she said.
35:07The dream is already over.
35:09There was also a little girl in the infirmary
35:12named Mia.
35:17The first time she came near me,
35:19she held a bunch of wildflowers.
35:22These are for you.
35:28Why?
35:30She said seriously.
35:32Because when you woke up,
35:34you looked as if you were about to cry.
35:37Flowers can keep you company.
35:38After that,
35:39she often sat outside my door.
35:43One night,
35:44she whispered through the crack.
35:48Bad dreams cannot get in.
35:51I am guarding the door.
35:53In that moment,
35:55I covered my mouth and cried until dawn.
36:04The first time the night commander of White Tower met me
36:08was in the Herb Courtyard.
36:12His name was Selin.
36:14He wore silver armor
36:16and had a pair of quiet eyes.
36:19I was drying medicinal leaves
36:21when he stood at the doorway
36:22and asked politely,
36:23Are you the new healer?
36:29I am trying hard to become one.
36:34He nodded very seriously.
36:39Then I will try hard not to get injured.
36:43Facts proved he was not very good at trying.
36:45The next day,
36:47he had a cut on his shoulder.
36:49On the third day,
36:51the back of his hand was burned.
36:53On the fourth day,
36:55he came into the infirmary
36:57with bruises from training.
37:03Adela glanced at me
37:04and was trying very hard not to laugh.
37:06As I banded him,
37:08I asked,
37:12Knight commander,
37:14where is that effort of yours?
37:19At Selin was silent for a moment.
37:22Perhaps it is still on the way.
37:24I could not help laughing.
37:26That was the first time
37:27I truly laughed out loud
37:29after coming to White Tower City.
37:31Selin looked at me,
37:32his eyes going briefly still,
37:34then quickly looked away.
37:37Adela coughed beside us.
37:40If the wound is banded,
37:42leave.
37:43Do not delay the healer's meal.
37:48Mia ran in,
37:50carrying honey cake.
37:51Sister Alana,
37:53today is the Spring Lantern Festival.
37:55You have to go see the lanterns.
37:57I wanted to refuse,
37:59but she held my hand
38:00and would not let go.
38:02At night,
38:03lights rose over White Tower City.
38:05Children chased sparks,
38:07musicians played by the fountain,
38:12and the bakery owner
38:13saved the largest piece of cake for me.
38:16Adela placed a flower crown on my head.
38:22Sienda stood beside me and asked,
38:24Are you cold?
38:27I shook my head.
38:29For the first time,
38:31I no longer longed
38:32for the things of the past.
38:37I no longer hoped my parents would turn back,
38:40no longer hoped Varys would believe me,
38:43and no longer hoped the children would call me mother.
38:47I only watched the lanterns rise,
38:50and then,
38:51I smiled.
38:56It was then that I saw Varys.
39:01He stood at the edge of the crowd,
39:03his black cloak still bearing the chill of the old world.
39:06Varys had grown much thinner.
39:08The sharp pride that had once marked his brows and eyes
39:11had become nothing but exhaustion.
39:13When he saw me smile,
39:14his entire body froze.
39:17The lantern cord slipped from my hand.
39:22Selin immediately stepped in front of me.
39:26Do you know him?
39:27Before I could answer,
39:29Varys had already come closer.
39:31His voice was low and horky.
39:34Elena.
39:35Instinctively,
39:36I stepped back.
39:37His footsteps stopped at once,
39:39as if that single step
39:41had nailed him in place.
39:42Once,
39:43a single round from him
39:44could make me walk towards him
39:45while enduring pain.
39:47Now,
39:47I merely stepped back,
39:49and he looked as if he had been condemned.
39:50I came to take you home!
39:52He said.
39:53I looked at him
39:53and found the word terribly strange.
39:56Where is home?
39:57Dragonbone Hall!
39:58The Outer Key!
39:59He spoke quickly.
40:00I have already repaired it.
40:02Your silver moonflowers have been replanted.
40:05Lucian and Aurelia wait for you every day.
40:07They know they were wrong.
40:09I listened quietly until he finished.
40:11What about that patch of snow?
40:13What?
40:14Varys' face went abruptly white.
40:16The place where I died,
40:17I asked.
40:18Did you repair that too?
40:19He could not answer.
40:21The lights around us were still warm,
40:23but my fingertips were cold.
40:24Varsis,
40:25I died there.
40:26His eyes slowly reddened.
40:28I know.
40:28You do not.
40:29I said.
40:31You only know that I died,
40:32but you do not know that before I died,
40:34I was still thinking,
40:35why is the snow so cold?
40:37Varys' throat trembled.
40:39You hate me.
40:40I did once.
40:41I looked at him,
40:42but now I am tired.
40:44He took a step forward,
40:46then forced himself to stop.
40:48You can punish me however you like.
40:50I lifted my eyes.
40:52He said in a low voice,
40:54With me!
40:54Strip away my scale!
40:56Make me kneel!
40:59I will accept it all!
41:02Looking at Varys,
41:04I suddenly understood.
41:05He thought pain could be traded for pain.
41:08He thought that if he knelt once,
41:10bled once,
41:10and endured the whip once,
41:12I could return to the past.
41:13But I was no longer the Alana
41:15who would wait for him to turn back.
41:17I do not want to punish you,
41:19I said.
41:20A faint light flashed in Varys' eyes.
41:23Softly,
41:23I finished.
41:25I simply do not want you anymore.
41:28That little light shattered completely.
41:31Maya ran over holding flowers.
41:33When she saw Vartess,
41:35she immediately hid behind me.
41:38Sister Alana,
41:39who is he?
41:40I stroked her head.
41:42Someone who is about to leave.
41:44Selin asked quietly.
41:45Do you need me to ask him to go?
41:48Varys looked at him,
41:49restrained hostility in his eyes.
41:51Who are you?
41:53Selin said calmly.
41:54Someone in her life now.
41:57Those words pierced Varys' chest like a knife.
42:00He saw Adrela holding my hand,
42:03saw Mia stuffing flowers into my arms,
42:06saw Selin drape a shoal over my shoulders.
42:10These simple acts of care
42:11were things he had never given me.
42:14Varys said quietly,
42:16Alana,
42:17I only wanted to see you once.
42:21You have seen me now.
42:22The dragon god's mark lit on his wrist.
42:25It was a warning.
42:26I looked at him.
42:27If she says she does not need you,
42:29then you may never approach her again.
42:32Varys finally stepped back.
42:35Lucien and Aurelia!
42:37I interrupted him.
42:38Do not use the children to hold me.
42:40His face was nearly transparent in its palmie.
42:44I turned and left without looking back.
42:47That night,
42:49black snow fell over White Tower City.
42:54I woke from a burning pain in my chest.
42:56My newly grown heart-guarding scale
42:58was hot and glowing,
43:00as if warning me of something.
43:02Outside,
43:03alarm bells rang wildly.
43:05Adela pushed the door open,
43:06her face pale.
43:07The star tide has split!
43:09I pulled on a cloak
43:11and ran out of the infirmary.
43:13Above White Tower,
43:14a black rift tore open the sky.
43:16Isolid fell from the crack,
43:18holding a bloodstained fragment of a silver scale.
43:20It was my old heart-guarding scale.
43:23She had withered until only bones seemed left,
43:25but madness burned in her eyes.
43:28Alana.
43:29She laughed.
43:31Why do you get to be reborn?
43:32Why must I suffer in the Judgment Tower
43:35while you are loved here?
43:36Black flames poured down from behind her
43:38and surged toward the houses.
43:39Seelan drew his sword
43:40and led the knights to protect the people.
43:42Adela carried Mia back into the infirmary.
43:44I stood in the middle of the street,
43:46my fingertips cold.
43:47When Isolette saw my fear,
43:49she laughed even louder.
43:50You are still the same.
43:51You only know how to endure,
43:52how to retreat.
43:53Sister,
43:54give me your body.
43:54I will live better than you.
43:57Do not call me sister.
43:59Why?
44:00She tilted her head.
44:01In the past,
44:02whenever I called you sister,
44:03didn't you always give things to me?
44:05Varys came through the rift
44:07and split the black flames
44:08with one stroke of his sword,
44:10blocking the way in front of me.
44:12His shoulder was burned open,
44:14blood flowing down his arm.
44:17Isolid, stop.
44:20Isolid stared at him with venom.
44:24Why pretend to love her now?
44:26Her voice was sharp as a blade.
44:28Where were you when she was in the most pain?
44:33Varys' face was deathly pale.
44:35Those words struck the place
44:37he could never defend.
44:38Taking advantage of his moment of distraction,
44:40Isolid clutched the shard
44:41of the heart-guarding scale
44:42and lunged at me.
44:43Sister,
44:44you have always been so good
44:46at fulfilling my wishes!
44:48In the old world,
44:49the word sister
44:50had always been able to hurt me.
44:52It made me yearn for family,
44:53made me surrender my room,
44:55my parents' attention,
44:56my husband,
44:57and my children to her
44:58one by one,
44:59I kept giving.
45:00I gave until,
45:02in the end,
45:03only a corpse was left in the snow.
45:06This time,
45:07I did not retreat.
45:09Silver-blue dragon flame
45:10rose from my palm.
45:12It was not blood from my wrist,
45:14not a scale stripped from my body,
45:16and not power exchanged for suffering.
45:18It was my own dragon soul,
45:20whole,
45:21warm,
45:22reborn inside me.
45:24The old scale shard
45:26stopped in mid-air,
45:27as if recognizing me,
45:29and trembled softly.
45:30Isolid screamed,
45:31Impossible!
45:33Your scale already belongs to me!
45:35Everything from the old world
45:37that you stole,
45:38parents,
45:39husband,
45:40children,
45:40and identity.
45:41I no longer want any of it.
45:43I raised my hand,
45:45but the pain you owe me
45:47must be returned.
45:50Silver-blue flames
45:51exploded with a roar.
45:53Isolid was blasted away,
45:54layers of her false dragon soul
45:56peeling from her.
45:57She screamed,
45:58cursed,
45:58and begged,
45:59until at last her true soul
46:00was revealed,
46:01impoverished,
46:02twisted,
46:03greedy.
46:03There was not a trace
46:04of innocence there.
46:05Above White Tower,
46:06the dragon god's judgment bell rang.
46:10The black snow froze in mid-air.
46:17The dragon god appeared
46:19above White Tower,
46:20silver light,
46:22lunating the entire city.
46:26Isyurde,
46:27you stole the fate
46:29of a true dragon,
46:30seized another's
46:31heart-guarding scale,
46:33and disturbed life
46:35and death
46:36across two worlds.
46:41Isyurde struggled
46:42to crawl toward me.
46:45Sister,
46:46I was wrong.
46:47I truly know
46:48I was wrong.
46:50Save me,
46:52please.
46:53You used to love me most.
46:56I remembered many years ago
46:58when I had just returned
46:59to the dragon nest.
47:01She had also clutched
47:02my sleeve this way.
47:04Sister,
47:05can I have this?
47:07I gave her everything.
47:10Later,
47:10she even wanted my life.
47:13I turned my eyes away.
47:16Do not call me sister.
47:20The dragon god
47:21raised his hand.
47:23You shall enter
47:24the lightless abyss
47:25and endure 300 years
47:27of soul-tearing punishment.
47:29The abyss opened
47:31and her cries
47:32were swallowed by darkness.
47:35Varus stood not far away.
47:38He did not save her.
47:41He looked at me,
47:42wanting to come closer
47:44but not daring to.
47:45I was not the one
47:46who brought her here.
47:49I discovered she had escaped
47:51and feared she would hurt you.
47:53I said nothing.
47:54The dragon god
47:55descended between us.
47:58You should return.
48:00But Varus' gaze
48:01still languished on me.
48:03Elana,
48:03Lucien,
48:04and Aurelia,
48:06may they see you once?
48:08I was silent
48:09for a long time.
48:10So long
48:11that the hope
48:12in his eyes
48:13dimmed little by little.
48:15In the end,
48:16I still remembered
48:17their cries
48:18when they were newborn.
48:20One last time.
48:23I met the children
48:24by the Star Sea.
48:25Lupien had grown taller
48:27but he was so thin
48:28it pained the heart.
48:29Aurelia held
48:29the old soul crystal,
48:30its light already dim.
48:32Her eyes were red
48:32and swollen from crying.
48:34When she saw me,
48:35Aurelia ran two steps forward
48:37then stopped abruptly.
48:38Mother.
48:39My heart still hurt.
48:40That was an instinct
48:41left by blood.
48:42But I did not
48:43open my arms.
48:45Lucien knelt
48:46in the wet sand
48:46and struck his forehead
48:48hard against the ground.
48:49I'm sorry.
48:51His voice was broken
48:52beyond recognition.
48:54I should not have rammed you,
48:55should not have cursed you,
48:56should not have told you to die.
48:59Mother, I was wrong.
49:01Hit me.
49:02Ram me once too, alright?
49:05I looked at him.
49:07The little boy
49:07who had once stood
49:08before Silvermoon Tower
49:10and kept me outside the door
49:11now welt in front of me,
49:13finally knowing pain.
49:14But his tears
49:15could not make
49:16my wounds disappear.
49:17Lucien.
49:18He immediately
49:19raised his head.
49:22I will not hit you.
49:23A faint light
49:24rose in his eyes.
49:25I said softly,
49:27but I will not
49:28go back either.
49:30Aurelia cried
49:30even harder.
49:31Why?
49:32I will be good.
49:33From now on,
49:35I will only call you mother.
49:36I will never let her
49:37hold me again.
49:38I crouched
49:39and wiped away her tears.
49:40She trembled,
49:41wanting to come close
49:42and not daring to.
49:44Aurelia,
49:44I once loved you
49:45very, very much.
49:46Choking,
49:47she asked.
49:47And now?
49:50The sea wind
49:51carried the scent
49:51of flowers
49:52from White Tower City.
49:53I looked at Aurelia,
49:55my voice very soft.
49:56Now,
49:57I must love myself first.
49:59She froze,
50:00then cried
50:01until she could
50:01barely stand.
50:03Lucien asked
50:04in a low words,
50:05Then can we still
50:06call you mother?
50:06I was silent
50:07for a moment.
50:08You may,
50:09but you must understand
50:10that a title spoken aloud
50:11cannot make the past
50:12back begin again.
50:13At last,
50:14the two children understood
50:16that some things
50:17once lost
50:18cannot be asked back
50:19with tears.
50:20Vera stood
50:20very far away.
50:22He had promised
50:23not to bind me
50:24with the children
50:24anymore,
50:25so he could
50:25only watch.
50:26Watch Lucien
50:27kneeling in the sand.
50:28Watch Aure cry
50:29until her voice
50:30was hung.
50:31Watch me stand up.
50:33Alana.
50:34In the end,
50:35he still called out
50:36to me.
50:36In this life,
50:37is there anything else
50:38I can do for you?
50:39I thought for a moment,
50:41do not come
50:41looking for me.
50:42His face went
50:43white at once.
50:45Take care of them.
50:47Teach them one thing.
50:49Never treat
50:49another person's endurance
50:50as something deserved.
50:52And never let
50:53another Alana
50:54die silently in the snow.
50:56Varys lowered his head.
50:58All right.
50:59That was our final goodbye.
51:01As I turned,
51:02Aurora cried out,
51:03Mother!
51:07I paused for a moment,
51:09but I did not look back.
51:10The old world
51:12grew farther
51:12and farther away from me.
51:19When I returned
51:20to White Tower City
51:22at dawn,
51:23Adele was waiting
51:24at the infirmary entrance
51:25with a bowl
51:26of hot soup.
51:28She did not ask
51:29why my eyes were red.
51:30She only placed
51:32the soup in my hands.
51:34Drink first.
51:36Mia peeked out
51:37from behind her.
51:38Are the bad people gone?
51:41I stroked her head.
51:43I stroked her head.
51:44They are gone.
51:46Then will you still leave?
51:49I paused.
51:51Seelin stood below the steps,
51:54morning light falling
51:55on his armor.
51:56He did not hurry me,
51:58only asked softly,
52:00Home.
52:01I looked toward the infirmary.
52:03The hearth burned warmly,
52:04herbs dried by the window,
52:06honey bread sat on the table.
52:07Adele stood in the doorway.
52:09Mia clitched the hem
52:09of my clothes,
52:10and Seelin waited quietly
52:12for my answer.
52:13This time,
52:13I did not hesitate.
52:15Home.
52:16Many years later,
52:17the people of White Tower City
52:19would still speak
52:20of a healer.
52:21She could grow
52:22silver moonflowers,
52:24gently care for children,
52:26and burn away darkness
52:28with silver-blue dragon flame.
52:30Some said she came from the sea.
52:33Some said she came from starlight.
52:36And some said
52:37she had once lost
52:39an entire world
52:40but built a better one
52:41with her own hands.
52:43I never corrected them.
52:45Sometimes I would stand
52:47by the star sea
52:48and watch the tide rise
52:49and fall.
52:51I would think of snow,
52:53of the dragon crystal floor,
52:56of the cries of my
52:58newborn children.
53:02But this time,
53:03I would hear someone
53:04call me from behind.
53:06Elana,
53:07the soup is getting cold.
53:09I turned back
53:10and saw the lights shining.
53:17I would also think
53:18of that silver-white gown,
53:21of the day I wore it
53:22and died in the snow.
53:24But those memories
53:26can no longer rule me,
53:27now they are only ashes
53:29and I have left
53:30the ashes behind.
53:34Adela still scolds me
53:36when I forget to eat.
53:39Mia has grown tall
53:40and brave,
53:41always saying
53:42she will become
53:43the greatest guard
53:44in White Tower City.
53:46and I will see you.
53:47Selan still pretends
53:48all his injuries
53:48are accidents,
53:49though I see through him
53:51every time.
53:52The bakery still saves
53:54honey cake for me.
53:56The bells of White Tower
53:57ring as usual.
54:00Every spring,
54:02the silver moonflowers
54:03I planted bloom.
54:05Their petals are pure white
54:06and their hearts glow silver blue.
54:09Like the dragon soul,
54:10I finally grew again.
54:12I once thought being loved
54:13meant enduring enough pain.
54:15I once thought that
54:16if I were patient enough,
54:17I could exchange it for a home.
54:19I once gave away
54:21every warm thing
54:22in my heart
54:23until nothing was left.
54:24Only later did I understand.
54:27Love is not punishment.
54:29Family is not a debt.
54:32Children are not chains.
54:34Regret is not redemption.
54:36A woman who has already died once
54:39does not need to return
54:40to the place that killed her.
54:42My name is Elana.
54:43I was once the daughter
54:45of the true dragon,
54:46an unloved wife,
54:47a hidden mother,
54:48a corpse in the snow.
54:50But I am also the healer
54:51who woke beneath white curtains,
54:53the woman who chose
54:54where she belonged,
54:56the person who grew
54:57a warm dragon soul again.
54:59And I am the one
55:00who left the ashes behind.
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