Chapter 69

“Sure, but let’s say we take out my brother. You don’t have kids. I don’t have kids. You can guess what happens next. If there are only two dragons, then it becomes a part of our duty, no matter how much we dislike it.” He kicked a rock as I was forced to concede the point. He sounded bitter about it, far too bitter for this to be a one-off, throwaway advice.

I didn’t want to say it, but there was one escape. Give up the crown.

No, that wasn’t right either. Once you accept the crown, it’s not like you could make people forget that you were a dragon. You had to never have taken the crown in the first place.

You had to be me.

“Can I ask you one last thing? This one is purely personal curiosity,” he asked as we approached Kennith’s home again. It was still far in the distance, but it seemed like we had walked for hours. I let go of his hand with a smile and a nod.

“Sure. Happy to.”