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040: The Crown of Shadows
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Redemption of The Dragon Prince 040: The Crown of Shadows
[Carnelia]Turning slowly, I can feel the burn of eyes watching me from the darkest corner of the room. Somebody has seen me arrive.But who? Did the monks sense my departure and follow me through the void? Did Thalan? I thought moon dragons could only travel short distances, jumping between locations that they know. They shouldn’t have been able to make it here even if they had tried, because no moon dragon has ever set foot in this keep.And yet, someone powerful is here, lurking in the shadows.“Come out,” I shout at what appears to be nothing, stepping towards the darkness.The darkness ripples, and along with it, the room itself seems to fold. It’s like everything I see is barely more than a curtain hiding the truth.And then I see the outline of two faces, peering through the darkness–one bright and one dark. Like the moon and stars themselves, they appear first as a hazy glow edging their outlines as their shapes slowly fill and they become solid. Even before they are completel
Redemption of The Dragon Prince 039: The Monster Within
[Carnelia]My breath stops a moment before my heart does, my body growing as cold as the floor that I lay on. Just a moment before I had been fighting with everything I had, but there were just too many of them. I thought I could be strong enough, but I couldn’t. In the end, no matter how hard I fight, they continue to win. Because I remember this feeling, I’ve felt it before when my sisters strapped me to that golden chair and throned me in light: This is what it feels like to die. Only this time, there will be no resurrection, no phoenix rebirth.“I’m sorry,” are my last words and my last thoughts as my soul separates from its casing and I rise from the ground, leaving my body behind. Floating above it all, I look down at a dreary scene. My lifeless body with my mouth slightly open, my eyes unblinkingly staring at nothing is laying in the middle of the room as the moon elves move around me, taking my baby and most of her next and placing it within a golden crate. and see the moon
Redemption of The Dragon Prince 038: Piercing the Veil
[Carnelia] My blood runs stone-cold as I stand, eyeing the moon drake before me. Doesn’t he realize that a dragon with nothing to lose is a dangerous creature, and a mother with only one child left is even more terrifying? Setting my egg down gently in its nest, I remove the amulet from her shell and, grasping the stone tightly within my fingers, I hold it aloft like a brand, letting its dark energy flow around me like a cape. I will not let this monster beat me. I will become a monster if it is what is needed to keep both my daughter and myself safe. I guess, if anything, this has taught me a lesson. The only way anyone I love will ever be safe is to get rid of the drake standing before me. He and my foul sisters and anyone else who has done their bidding. I need to scour the world clean and start fresh on their entrails. First, he dies, then I rescue my father. Pulling on the dark part of me that I try to keep hidden, I let a touch of madness shine from my eyes as I reach forw
Redemption of The Dragon Prince 037: Illusions and Shadows
[Carnelia]Lifting his finger to his lips, my father signals for me to wait. He must sense that others are listening, waiting to hear what he has to say. But why? Does the Grand Magus suspect the truth and that her earlier behavior was just an act?The room is silent, amplifying the noises around us. There is a low hum radiating from the walls, the sound of several layers of dragons, stacked on top of each other, deep within the mountains. Sun dragons, the magi and their alcolytes, each powerful enough to warp reality and call the power of the stars. I never stopped to wonder why they live so deep within this mountain until this moment, seeing how close the Grand Magus is to the Moon Queen. I had been told that the moon drakes stay to themselves, that they are too different from other dragons to want any kind of sustained interaction. And yet, a son of a moon king married a daughter of the sun–my own mother and father. How did he end up at their court to meet her and for the two of th
Redemption of The Dragon Prince 036: Moon Queen
[Carnelia] My hand dangles, suspended in midair, my fingers pointing absently towards where my father and child are hiding, as if I could hold down the blanket of illusion blocking them from view. It is impossible to hold the intangible with your fingertips, but if this moon queen can rip reality back into view, then I can try to hold onto my father's web of illusion a bit longer. I hope, although I'm not exactly sure how. I know the power to weave shadows is one I can and will learn, but I have yet to master even the basics of shadow bending. This feels like a test, one where I had no chance to study and the stakes are impossibly high. I need to protect my child, and the only way that can happen is if she stays hidden. While everyone knows I am a universal dragon, so few have seen what that means other than those who were there for my resurrection, watching me emerge from the ashes on phoenix wings. Rakasha had been there, but she's only ever seen that face and the one I wear now
Redemption of The Dragon Prince 035: Unwanted Guests
[Carnelia] “A moment, please,” I call out. “I’m awake but not dressed. I am feeling…shy about my body.” My words aren’t exactly a lie, but they are far from the tru I am dressed, but I can’t have her looking at my body as it is. I have been nesting in the time she’s been away and my body has returned to its pre-maternal state, now that I’m not carrying any precious cargo within me. The Grand Magus pauses. “Motherhood is a blessed state; there is nothing to be embarrassed about, Aka’naha…” As she speaks, my father wraps me in shadows, and my figure morphs, modifying my shape in a way I haven’t quite mastered, even though it has been demonstrated several times. It was what my father was trying to teach me before they arrived. To anyone who encounters me now, I will look as I was before, every detail meticulously recreated, from the swell of my belly to the dark circles ringing my eyes. My little one, sensing danger, blinks out of existence for a moment only to reappear in my father’
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