Iniko: A New Beginning
Then Phoenix shifts the scene again, where it looks like she’s being held in Ajax’s arms.
“Why are you crying?” she asks him.
“One of our dragons died. He was protecting his rider. I wasn’t close to him, but he had such a hard life, and he died so young. I just … I wish he’d had a chance at a better life, you know?”
She turns the scene again to show my dad pulling on his earth element and burning my body back into the earth before my mother takes my ashes and blows them into the night sky.
I watch as Phoenix lights the path that she made, the path where she collected my ashes and brought them to the hatching grounds, putting them into a glass enclosure then shaping it into a dragon’s egg.