[ONSHORE] [Aerin Freedrake] “What on Terra is that?” My chest burns as I look out from shore into the water beyond. Not because I don’t know what I’m seeing, but because I do. I couldn’t ever mistake it. “Run,” I turn around and rush the drakes and humans along the shoreline. “RUN!” They don’t know the danger they are in. How could they? So few individuals remain from the night that the sky fell. Almost nobody survived Prince Segundus’ attempted attack on the Celestial Kingdom and the consequences that came after his soldiers killed Queen Cressida. But I remember. I’ll never forget. “That’s Prince Primus,” I say under my breath, my hands shaking as the monster approaches the shore, one slow step at a time. “And he’s angry.” I had come to the shore side hoping to escape the memories of that night. Seeing the palace burn, hearing my family die as the burning stones collapsed on them. My mother had been too weak to leave her nest, and by the time I had seen the monster on
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