The Alpha & The Harpy
Instead, she looked down at the kingdom she would one day inherit.
'The Wingless,' she realised with a dawning sadness for them. For those who were born without flight, "They were, and always have been, the unseen spine of the Raven Kingdom. They hauled stone for the towers and castles they'd never ascend, stoked forges that armored winged warriors who dismissed their existence, and wingless buried the same dead who'd once scorned them. Yet there, in the fire's heart... in forges... they were their own sovereigns." No noble could endure the hours of blistering heat that toughened their hands into living leather, not without setting fire to their wings and forfeiting them anyway, the princess
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