A_Shadow_in_the_Ember_Amazon

Legend claimed that she been picking flowers along the cliffs and fell to her death after being frightened by a god. Perhaps now wasn’t the most opportune time to think about her.

Because of my destiny, I was better trained than most of the Royal Guards that protected him.

They say he’s monstrous, that his skin is covered in the same scales as the beasts that guard him. That he has fangs for teeth. You must be terrified of what you must do.”

But even though she had carried me for nine months and brought me into this world, I had never been hers.

had soothed the sting

“A Queen of Flesh and Fire. And him, a King risen from Blood and Ash, who ruled side by side with man. And they…they felt right. They felt like hope.”

If I had a child, or if any descendant of mine had been harmed, I would burn through both realms just so I could flay the skin from the body of the one who’d hurt them.