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On the Day of the Broken Engagement, I Married a Half-Blood Dragon
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00:00In my first life, my fiancé Derek despised me for not being pure enough for the mixed colors in my
00:04flame.
00:05The day I gave birth, he couldn't even wait for me to get off the birthing bed before he burned
00:09me and my still crying baby to ash with a blast of black fire.
00:14As I died, I cursed him. In every life, may you die a miserable death.
00:18Then I was reborn from the ashes.
00:21In my second life, when I opened my eyes again, I was back to the day before my engagement.
00:25My fiancé Derek Cole was standing in my family's main tent, announcing in front of everyone that he was going
00:30to marry my sister Mia.
00:31He had been reborn too. In our last life, he was a rising star among the pure-blood dragons.
00:36He married me because my family and bloodline were just barely worthy of him.
00:39But later I gave birth to a child with markled scales and a dull, weak flame. A half-breed.
00:43He thought I had ruined him. He thought I had deceived him. So he killed us.
00:46Now he had come back to do it over, convinced that if he chose my pure-blood sister, he would
00:51get the perfect heir he wanted.
00:54What he didn't know was that the child Mia carried was a half-breed too.
00:59No! No, that's not right. Let him find out for himself.
01:02When I woke up, my chest still hurt. The feeling of fire burning straight through my ribs felt carved into
01:07my soul.
01:08It took me a full ten seconds to realize I was still alive. Still whole. Still had a heartbeat.
01:14The animal hide stretched over the tent roof was the one mother had brought back from the southern tribe last
01:18year.
01:18A totem pole stood in the center of the tent, carved all over with the marks of our ancestors.
01:22The basket of nearly withered healing herbs in the corner was still right where it had been.
01:26Everything was exactly as I remembered.
01:28Then I saw Derek. His gaze swept over the main tent, over my parents, over the shamans and chiefs present.
01:34Then it landed on me.
01:36That look was not the tenderness he had worn before our wedding in my last life.
01:40It was disgust, contempt.
01:41He came back too.
01:43Uncle Auntie, I know this is wrong, but I can't form a bond with Olivia.
01:48The main tent fell silent for one second. Then whispers broke out, like a swarm of insects startled into flight.
01:56My father, Marcus, was one of the leaders of the Dragon Council.
02:01Say that again.
02:04Me and I are together now.
02:05She's carrying my cub.
02:09Derek!
02:10You and Olivia have been promised to each other since childhood.
02:13Your blood compatibility is 92%.
02:15We tested it three times.
02:17You can't just break it off because you feel like it.
02:20Our parents arranged that engagement.
02:22I didn't choose it.
02:23He turned towards me.
02:25No.
02:26He walked towards me.
02:32In our last life, you humiliated me.
02:35This time, I won't make the same mistake.
02:38Olivia, I don't want to hurt you.
02:40I just can't marry someone who is...
02:42He paused.
02:43The entire main tent waited for him to say the word.
02:47I just can't take that risk.
02:49He didn't say it.
02:51But everyone understood.
02:53Bloodline.
02:54Blood.
02:55Purity.
02:55Those three words drifted through the family hall like ghosts.
02:57No one dared say them out loud.
02:59But everyone didn't knew exactly what they meant.
03:01Everyone in the family knew my flame was the wrong color and the pattern of my scales was wrong.
03:04Since childhood, the Elders had judged my bloodline as tainted.
03:07When I first awakened at seven, my flame was gold but streaked with red threads.
03:10That was not the color of a pure blood dragon.
03:12To my face, the Elders called it potential.
03:14A possible mutation.
03:15A special gift.
03:16But in private, the word they used was half-breed.
03:18They just didn't dare say it to me for us.
03:20I agree.
03:21What did you say?
03:22I said I agree.
03:25Article 17 of the Dragon Code.
03:27The party whose engagement is broken has the right to choose a spouse independently within 30 days.
03:32I want to invoke it.
03:33Do you understand what Article 17 means?
03:36It means you give up all family protection over your marriage.
03:39It means the spouse you choose will not be screened, will not be verified, and there will be no bottom
03:44line.
03:45I understand.
03:47I choose him.
03:49No one had ever paid attention to him.
03:52His eyes were a dark gold that belonged to no pure blood dragon.
03:56A color mainstream society saw as the mark of a half-breed.
04:00Are you insane?
04:05You're choosing a...
04:07What?
04:07A half-breed just like me?
04:09Is that the word you want to say, Derek?
04:11Say it!
04:11He didn't dare.
04:13He didn't dare say that word in front of a room full of elders, because the moment he did,
04:17he would be admitting that the real reason he had broken off the engagement was not love.
04:22It was blood discrimination.
04:24In modern dragon society, it was an open secret, but no one dared say it in a formal setting.
04:29Everyone wore masks.
04:31Everyone spoke politely.
04:32Everyone stabbed each other in the back.
04:34No one was stupid enough to draw their blade on the battlefield.
04:39What are you still standing there for?
04:41Come here.
04:49What's your name?
04:52Luke.
04:53Luke and I formed a bond.
04:55The process was simple.
04:56Go to the Elder's Hall, register, and have both parties sign the contract.
04:59No ceremony, no blessing, not even friends needed to be present.
05:01The fire basin at the registration office burned bright.
05:04And the animal hide scroll of the dragon code hung on the wall, yellowed with age, its edges curling.
05:08When I signed, Mia stood in the doorway.
05:10What do you think that half-breed of yours can give birth to?
05:13A lizard?
05:13Or a whole nest of snakes?
05:15My guess, yours will be much more interesting than mine.
05:18She didn't know what I knew, but she sensed it.
05:21After I signed, I set down the pen and walked past her without stopping.
05:25At the far end of the corridor, Derek stood to the side, staring hard at me.
05:31What do you know?
05:32I know you chose the wrong person.
05:34But don't worry, Derek.
05:36Your good days are far from over.
05:38It was only one phrase, but it carried so much.
05:40Last life.
05:41Killing in tanked.
05:42Fear.
05:43And something I didn't recognize.
05:45Maybe despair.
05:46You killed me in our last life.
05:48In this one, I'm still alive.
05:49I saw a flicker of fear in his eyes.
05:51Not fear of me.
05:52Not fear of power.
05:53It was fear of the fact that the woman knew everything.
05:55The fear that comes right before a secret is exposed.
05:58When I walked out of the Elder's Hall, Luke was leaning against a stone pillar in the corridor.
06:01Rolling an old silver coin was badly worn.
06:03The image on its face almost impossible to see.
06:06All signed?
06:07All signed.
06:08What were you saying to them out there?
06:10Nothing.
06:11Just saying hello.
06:17Your claws are shaking.
06:18No, they're not.
06:19Olivia.
06:21I said they're not.
06:22He simply took off his outer robe, carrying it in the warmth of his fire and a scent I couldn't
06:25quite name.
06:26The robe was cold, metallic scent of pure-blood dragons.
06:29But something wilder.
06:30Something deeper.
06:31Like forest after rain.
06:32Or charred wood.
06:33That night, we went back to Luke's tent together.
06:34He was warming beast milk by the fire pit.
06:36He said the midwife told him it needed to be nourished.
06:38His tent was small.
06:39Wars lied to him.
06:39I was nearly bored.
06:40But everything was clean.
06:41Wooden bowls and anapal spoons were neatly stacked on the stone shelf, and there wasn't a speck of rust on
06:45his blade.
06:45Why were you willing to marry me?
06:46You want the truth?
06:48Hmm.
06:50Because you chose.
06:51You stood in the middle of the main tent with everyone watching, and you chose me.
06:57Just for that?
07:00Just for that.
07:06Not many dragons would choose one of their own in that moment.
07:10Most would choose themselves.
07:12That was choosing myself, too.
07:14I chose you because I needed to get away from Derek.
07:17I know.
07:19But you could have grabbed any dragon at the door to sign with you, then gone your separate ways.
07:24You didn't.
07:25How do you know I won't?
07:27Yeah.
07:31Because you're still sitting here, drinking my beast milk.
07:35I said nothing.
07:36He was right.
07:38I hadn't left.
07:40The days passed quietly like that.
07:42I found out I was pregnant two months later.
07:45In my last life.
07:47In my last life, at this very moment, I thought I was carrying Derek's cub.
07:51I had gone to tell him, full of joy.
07:58I hope you don't embarrass me again.
08:00His expression looked like he had already decided to throw it away before he even skinned it.
08:06Then I gave birth to a daughter with marteled scales, and a flame so weak it was almost invisible.
08:19This isn't mine.
08:24She is yours.
08:25My seed could never turn out like that.
08:30He didn't even wait for me to explain.
08:44Olivia, you've been in the private time for 20 minutes.
08:49Luke's expression changed.
08:50First confusion, then alertness, then something I didn't recognize.
08:55What's wrong?
08:58I handed him the pregnancy stone.
09:09Ours?
09:11Who else's would it be?
09:15Not Derek's?
09:17Not Derek's.
09:20100% yours.
09:32Are you happy?
09:34I don't know.
09:36But I'm thinking about something.
09:39What?
09:41Your last life.
09:43Why did Derek kill you?
09:45I froze.
09:46I hadn't told him.
09:47I had never told anyone about my last life.
09:50About that cub.
09:51About that fire.
09:52About the instant so sudden I didn't even have time to scream.
09:55The cub.
09:56Mottled scales.
09:58Unstable flame.
09:59He thought it wasn't his.
10:01It wasn't his?
10:03It was.
10:04But that cub really didn't look pure blood.
10:08Olivia, have you ever considered something?
10:10What?
10:11A cub born from two mixed bloods may not be a mixed blood.
10:14What does that mean?
10:16He didn't answer.
10:17He only placed his claws over my lower abdomen.
10:19Within the black tongues of flame was a strand of gold I had never seen before.
10:24That gold was not the cold gold of the pure blood dragons.
10:27It was warmer.
10:28More like sunrise.
10:29Your cub.
10:30It isn't the same as the cub from your last life.
10:33What are you talking about?
10:35I'm saying you were robbed.
10:38Robbed?
10:39By who?
10:43Mia's due date was three weeks before mine.
10:45The news spread through the entire dragon council.
10:50Derek Cole was holding a bloodline witnessing ceremony for his first child.
10:54And he had invited every elder and noble.
10:57To put it plainly, he was showing off.
11:00Showing off that he had chosen the right woman.
11:02That his heir would be pure blood.
11:03That abandoning me had been such a brilliant decision.
11:06He wanted everyone to see that Derek Cole had not been dragged down by that half-breed.
11:10That Derek Cole's bloodline would continue.
11:11That Derek Cole was the winner.
11:14On the day of the ceremony, Luke and I stood at the very back of the hall.
11:20No one noticed us.
11:22No one wanted to notice us.
11:25I knew what he was thinking.
11:27He was thinking this was only the first step.
11:29There was a longer road ahead.
11:31One child wasn't enough.
11:33He wanted an entire tribe.
11:35My parents sat in the front row.
11:37Their seats had been assigned.
11:39No one cared whether they wanted to be there.
11:41To miss an occasion like this would be to openly oppose the Cole family.
11:45And my father's place on the council still needed Marcus Cole's vote.
11:48What do you think it'll be?
11:49Do you want the truth or the polite version?
11:53The truth.
11:54A turkey.
11:56Or a lizard.
11:57Or something worse.
12:03The glory of pure blood dragons.
12:07The future of the Cole family.
12:09The support of the clan.
12:12Every sentence was formulatical.
12:13Every gesture had been precisely calculated.
12:17Then the delivery room door opened.
12:22Marcus's smile froze on his face.
12:24The whole room went silent.
12:26Every eye fixed on the white cloth.
12:29Waiting for the midwife to uncover it.
12:31The baby's scales were grey-green.
12:33Uneven in shade.
12:34Its eyes opened a slit.
12:35And the color of its pupils was wrong.
12:37It was not the gold of pure blood dragons.
12:39Nor the dark yellow ex-blood dragons.
12:41It was a murky sickly dark yellow.
12:43Like pos left too long.
12:44What is that?
12:45It's my child.
12:47Let me see.
12:48Even more terrifying were its dragon wings.
12:51The fleshy wing that should have unfolded at birth.
12:53The symbol of a dragon's identity.
12:55Had only grown halfway.
12:56The other half was a malformed, wrinkled lump of skin.
13:07The third half was a malformed, wrinkled lump of skin.
13:16I don't know.
13:17I don't know why this happened, Derek.
13:19I really don't know.
13:20Do you know what your bloodline is?
13:24do you know on your father's side there is nothing wrong with my bloodline it's you
13:30you're the problem in our last life you and she suddenly shut her mouth
13:37but it was too late last life what last life derrick's expression in that moment was the
13:43most spectacular thing i had ever seen fear rage shame and the despair of knowing everything was
13:49over every emotion spriched up at once crowding onto his handsome face until it twisted out of shape
13:53it was you you cursed me he was fast but luke was faster
14:10don't touch her the whole room went silent
14:22that fire impossible what is it marcus do you know that fire marcus didn't answer
14:33the way he looked at luke changed it wasn't the hostility from before it wasn't irritation at
14:40having his speech interrupted it was something older more instinctive fear not fear of an enemy
14:48fear of something from the past mia and derrick's pure blood air was half lizard the news spread
14:55through all of dragon society someone revealed the secret it was sealed quickly however the message
15:02has already been leaked the comments were unbearable to read some said mia's bloodline was the problem
15:09some said derrick's bloodline was the problem some said both of them were the problem
15:13the truth didn't matter what mattered was that they were finished but to derrick there was one thing
15:20even more terrifying than social death me that night we returned to our accommodation luke closed the
15:28door leaned against it and looked at me you want to know the truth what i used just now was
15:36the fire of
15:37the ancient dragons when marcus saw it he recognized it that wasn't the power of modern pure blood
15:43dragons luke was silent for a long time do you know where pure blood dragons come from since i was
15:54little i was taught that pure blood is innate natural selection the peak of evolution then do you know
16:01where half greets come from these scars they aren't from fights they're from rituals
16:13what rituals the cole family marcus cole derrick's father or rather every family that calls itself pure
16:20blood their pure blood wasn't natural it was stolen what do you mean every time a new life is born
16:27they perform a ritual they extract dragon crystals from dragons within pure bloodlines
16:32he never talked about himself i had known him for two months and he had never said a word about
16:38his
16:38past i knew what a dragon crystal was every dragon has one in their chest it is the source of
16:44our power
16:44the color and quality of a dragon chris determines the form and strength of the flame
16:49if the dragon crystal shatters the dragon dies no exceptions
16:52a mixed blood's dragon crystal is far more active than a pure blood's because a mixed blood's flame
16:57is unstable the crystal has to keep adapting and adjusting and that activity it can be extracted
17:05a pure blood dragon's crystal is constant stable it doesn't grow stronger or weaker but a mixed
17:11blood's crystal is different it can be smelled remade and injected into another dragon's body
17:16they use mixed blood dragon crystals to strengthen their own bloodlines
17:20luke didn't speak but his silence was the clearest confirmation
17:27how do you know because i was one of the dragons they extracted from
17:33when i was 15 marcus cole found me he said he would help me awaken you know the line every
17:38mixed blood has heard it come with us and we'll help remove the impurities from your bloodline
17:43he went i went my mother had just died i was living alone in a grass shed in the south
17:48no herd no
17:49king my flame would go out of control from time to time and burn every piece of prey i could
17:52find
17:52driving a beast car pulled by four thestuaries he said he had come to help me they locked me in
17:57a
17:57dungeon and extracted my dragon crystal for three days and three nights they thought i was unconscious
18:01the whole time but i wasn't i was awake i watched them melt the crystal they took from me into
18:07glowing
18:07liquid and injected into a cub's body who was that cub
18:15you guessed right it was derek cole derek's pure blood had not been maintained by the blood i donated
18:23not by that bottle of heart blood taken from my chest every year the pain so bad i curled in
18:28on myself
18:30it was maintained by my own kind by the lives of every mixed blood dragon they had branded a half
18:36street
18:37in my last life every year i had to send their family a bottle of my heart blood they said
18:46it was
18:46to build affection with derek i was pierced with needles from childhood until i nearly died from the
18:51pain and i thought that was just my fate because i was mixed blood i was supposed to endure it
18:57it was compensation it was the price it was what i owed them that wasn't your fate that was their
19:05lie
19:05they used my blood our blood to keep up derek's disguise to make everyone believe he was pure blood
19:12to let him stand above us look down on us judge us kill us then he killed you killed your
19:19child
19:19because he couldn't let the truth come out your child the one you gave birth to in your last life
19:26if she had lived if she had grown up her scales and flame would have proven one thing
19:32what a child born from two mixed bloods is not mixed blood
19:36it is the source the ancient dragons the true dragons were never pure blood they were mixed blood
19:44because mixed blood means adaptation it means change it means the power to devour everything
19:51and bring everything back to life but pure blood pure blood is a dead end a self-deceiving lie
20:00destined for extinction that night luke took me somewhere deep within the family territory there was
20:08a forgotten ruin i had gone there once as a child but mother dragged me back she said it was
20:15unlucky and
20:15forbade me from going again it was not an ordinary key it was made of bone white and slightly yellowed
20:29but i knew those words were not modern dragon writing they weren't any dragon language i knew the symbols
20:36curved and flowed like the shape of flames generations of dragon ancestors are buried here
20:42at least that's what everyone says no they didn't die they were exiled the stone chamber was small only
20:52about two meters square and every wall was covered in murals no names no dates only those ancient curving
21:01symbols and images it was ten times the size of the other dragons its wingspan covering half the sky
21:13and the mural changed they severed the dragon races connection to its past
21:22they killed the last mixed blood king of the ancient dragons stole its dragon crystal divided into 13
21:27pieces and smelted those pieces into their own bodies and then on they called themselves pure blood
21:34from then on mixed blood became a disgrace from then on every few decades they had to find a new
21:40group
21:40of mixed blood dragons extract their dragon crystals and use them extend their own lives
21:45do you know why they've always had their eyes on you because my flame is the wrong color because
21:50the pattern of my scales is wrong because i'm a half-breed because inside you is because you are the
21:57reincarnation of that ancient dragon i am the you are the king they killed three times stole from countless
22:06times and yet every time you were reborn from the ashes in this life i will stand in front of
22:15you
22:16not because you need protection but because since i was 15 i've been waiting for one of my own
22:21someone willing to choose me and you chose his voice was trembling it was the first time i had ever
22:26heard his voice tremble i thought the story ended there but i was wrong on the third day after the
22:33ceremony mia disappeared she hadn't run away from the nest she hadn't gone to see a witch doctor about
22:39her body she vanished from the cole family territory out of thin air the midwife said she got up in
22:46the
22:46middle of the night to feed the cub and then she was gone
22:50her body was the first messenger to me not because he cared about mia but because he knew i would
23:03strangely it wasn't angry it wasn't urgent it was soft in a way i had never heard before almost
23:10bleeding olivia mia is missing what does that have to do with me i heard him take a deep breath
23:18on the
23:18other end of the soundstone if you're willing to help me find her i'll show you something
23:25what the truth about that cub from your last life
23:33then i found luke derek says he knows about what happened in the last life
23:37he was cooking a pot of meat soup in the stone pot were wild greens roots and bones from some
23:42beast i
23:43didn't know where he had hunted what does he know he says he knows the truth about the cub
23:56he's lying but he may know something like what like who stole your cup
24:04luke and i went to the cole family territory
24:08their land was on the mountain to the north spanning wide it was a long walk from the fortress gate
24:14to
24:27the main hall
24:29inside was a ritual refining room no not a ritual refining room a slaughterhouse it was not alive
24:35what is this derek didn't answer the bone scroll was very old its edges worn down
24:45my name was carved on it inside were branded animal hides many sheets the same cub rubbed from different
24:53angles behind them were notched tables rune data and blood pattern analysis scrolls derek has never
25:00fathered a pure blood cub not once the cole family's bloodline was already polluted in the first
25:04generation their method of extracting mixed blood dragon crystals has a fatal side effect
25:08each generation is weaker than the last derek is the final generation he cannot produce any
25:13healthy cub then what about mia's cub my father did that what do you mean my father he started
25:19cultivating ambrose five years ago with my essence blood with mixed blood dragon essence blood
25:23cultivated in the ritual refining room the one mia carried was never my cub it was a ritual thing
25:28they implanted in her body your wording changed you called her mia not my sister now you see her as
25:35a living being not your rival you said nothing for a long time mia disappeared she got up in the
25:41middle of the night and saw that stone trough saw the corpse of her cub the one she thought had
25:47died
25:47the one we told her died at birth and she disappeared what did you do to her we didn't do
25:57anything
25:58but she took that bone scroll that scroll contains all the evidence the cole family's bloodline fraud
26:02ritual cultivation mixed blood dragon crystal extraction everything is in there so you came
26:07to me not because she's missing but because she took your secrets
26:12my father doesn't want mia what does he want he wants that cub
26:18i did not go to rescue mia not because i didn't care but because i knew where she was
26:23our mother elena she had never accepted my father's seat on the council never accepted being forced to
26:28attend every cole family event never accepted her two daughters being treated as political bargaining
26:33chiefs she had been waiting all along waiting for a chance waiting for a blade sharp enough mia gave that
26:38bone scroll to her then elena did something no one expected she issued a bloodline proclamation in the
26:43front courtyard of the family estate before all the elders before all the council members before the
26:48watching dragons she released everything in the bone scroll piece by piece every item was perfectly
26:53clear the cole family's bloodline fraud the embrose melting authorization personally signed by marcus
26:58cole in dragon script the list of mixed blood dragons illegally imprisoned and stripped of their dragon
27:03crystals he didn't know someone had tampered with the voice prince stone derek is not pure
27:08blood he never was but we had no other choice the council needed an heir the cole family needed a
27:15future
27:15we only did what had to be done the hall was deathly silent
27:28it was a blood pattern origin tracing scroll at first glance the entire blood pattern was dark gold
27:34with the purity index marked along the edge of the scroll at over 97 this was the mark of a
27:40pure
27:40blood dragon there was nothing wrong with it but at the imprint corresponding to the 12th heart scale
27:45a tiny section of the pattern was the wrong color the source of that pattern was written on the final
27:52line
27:52of the scroll it was the first time i had ever seen that blood pattern scroll you knew i knew
28:00you knew from the beginning i've always known you knew the dragon crystal inside him was part of you
28:06yes that's why i'm taking it back the conflict broke out the next day derek struck first he had lost
28:15everything his fiancee his child his family's reputation his council seat he had nothing left a person with
28:22nothing left is the most dangerous because he has nothing left to lose either when he came to find me
28:28with that
28:28knife i was packing in the apartment mia was coming to stay for a few days she didn't dare go
28:34back to her
28:35own home and she didn't dare return to the coal estate she was staying with mother for the moment
28:39but mother said she needed time alone so mia had no choice but to come to me
28:45when the doorbell rang i thought it was her
28:51he knew i wouldn't die but he no longer cared
28:59put down the knife
29:04derek did not put it down the thing you took that piece of dragon crystal inside your body it isn't
29:10yours
29:11it never was your life is fake your bloodline is fake your pure blood was stolen you are nothing
29:29this should hurt but i don't want to hurt you i don't want to become like you
29:38take it it never appear in front of us again
29:52i'll get the first aid kit no need
29:57i want a different ending
30:00what do you mean
30:02in your last life when you died i was on the other side of the city
30:07i felt it but i couldn't get there in time by the time i arrived you were already
30:12nothing but ash not this time
30:19after mia arrived she saw the blood on the floor of the nest and almost turned around and flew away
30:25again
30:36i'm sorry olivia i'm sorry i know i shouldn't have i know back then i shouldn't have treated you that
30:42way
30:45you don't need to apologize
30:48why are you never angry
30:50because i don't have time to be angry
30:53that was the truth i didn't have time to be angry there was still too much i had to do
31:00i had to give birth to my child i had to watch luke take back his dragon crystal
31:05i had to watch marcus cole stand trial i had to see every young dragon in that glass threat properly
31:12buried
31:16that night luke burned a calming leaf on the stargazing platform outside the nest
31:24you rarely touch things like that the night dew is heavy go inside are you cold no liar
31:40when i was 15 in that dungeon i thought i was going to die there
31:45i know but not because of the pain
31:49because i thought no dragon would come looking for me
31:52no dragon knew i was there
31:54even if i died there i would only be treated as a missing half breed
31:59no dragon would ask no dragon would search no dragon would care
32:12but they were wrong
32:14who was wrong
32:17all dragons
32:20let's go back you need to sleep
32:22news of marcus cole's arrest came three days later he was not arrested by the dragon council
32:28he was arrested at the dragon enforcement unit the black dragon guard they had received an anonymous
32:34bone scroll sealed with dragon blood delivered with the bone scroll was a memory crystal the images
32:39from that memory crystal were projected onto the announcement stone tablets at the center of every
32:43dragon territory the next day the black dragon guard raided the cole family's nest on the third day
32:48when marcus cole was marcus cole was dragged out from the depths of the nest
32:51marcus cole did not struggle
32:53he showed no anger no fear in his vertical pupils was a kind of relief
32:58as if he finally no longer had to keep acting
33:01two days later the dragon council held an emergency session bloodline fraud illegal imprisonment
33:07abuse of miners murder every charge came with witness testimony and physical evidence
33:13he spent 40 minutes he spent 40 minutes telling his story word by word from being taken at 15 to
33:21three days and nights of crystal extraction to being abandoned at the entrance of the east district hospital
33:27the council's decision passed unanimously all noble titles held by families calling themselves pure
33:32blood were revoked every clause in the dragon code concerning bloodline hierarchy was abolished
33:37a compensation fund was established specifically for mixed blood dragons
33:41whose dragon crystals had been extracted marcus cole was sentenced to permanent imprisonment although
33:48derrick cole had not directly participated in his father's crimes he had known the truth and benefited from it
33:52he was stripped of his dragon status his dragon crystal was forcibly removed and he reverted to what
33:58he had originally been your child from the last life he didn't kill her what did you say the child
34:04from your
34:04last life he didn't kill her he sent her away sent her to another world she's alive somewhere she's alive
34:12what's her name i don't know i really don't i only know she was sent away since somewhere no one
34:18could find her
34:19that was the last thing my father said he said he couldn't kill a child that was the one thing
34:24he
34:24couldn't do derek left i stood in the tent passage and did not move there was a cub inside and
34:33there
34:34was another cub somewhere in the world alive she was still alive i did not cry the crying came later
34:44that night in luke's tent while he was changing the herbs on the wound on his claw
34:54we'll find her how do you know because you're the kind of dragon who finds her own
35:01you won't stop until you do i laughed but the laugh was part of the crying so it was ugly
35:07he didn't mind the cub was born one week later a daughter what's her name
35:19iris why because iris means rainbow because her flame is the color of a rainbow because when she came
35:28all the colors came with her iris
35:36his smile was ugly because his eyes were too bright so bright his smile couldn't hide it
35:42his dragon crystal had returned you're back i didn't know who he was talking to maybe iris
35:53maybe another dragon maybe the king in the mural the one killed three times and reborn from the ashes
35:59every time but it didn't matter because this time no dragon would die this was my second life but there
36:06would not be a third outside the tent flap was night inside the tent flap was light and a cub
36:15and him