.Dragon's Legacy.

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"Don't be too mad at her, she had no choice in her actions." Mather said as she turned to face me.

"I didn't come here for that, I bet you know I struggle producing more then a fistful of flames, I need your help."

"So be it." She stood. "You've long rejected that part of you connecting you to me and some blocks once put in place are hard to bring down."

"I know all of that."

"You are full of energy and brash in the best cases and a complete mess in the worst."

"Thanks?"

"No, that was not a figure of speech you could misinterpret, I am serious."

"Wha--hey!!"

"Ynyhow energy, flamboyance and generally who you are makes you a great candidate to connect to fire as it is the element that goes through the most change, it is vibrant and free, wild, like you are, fire is what flows through your veins."

"Then why do I struggle?"

"Even now you refuse to be part of it, you didn't completely forgive me, fire is associated with me in your mind."

"I now know all the reasoning, I don't hate you... Not any more."

"You might not but you hate your association to me on a personal level Lin." She tapped her finger against my chest. "In your heart you can't help but wish I was no one to you, that you weren't my daughter, that you weren't known as my daughter."

"I..... I just want to be seen as myself, not a legacy, not a sequel, I want to be myself not the silver dragon's daughter." I don't know why tears sprang to my eyes, I told this myself so long.

"Admitting your feelings is usually the first way to recovery...Fire is freedom and you took that from yourself, locking yourself in a cage of expectation, locking yourself in a cage of others wishes, you can't let people dictate how you act and what you do, you need to be yourself, free yourself from the chained you set on you."

"But who would I be?"

"Yourself Lin." She stepped back slightly. "Nothing is as important as being true to yourself, I was expected to protect the royal family, to serve, if I ever once listened to the words of others this whole thing wouldn't exist, there would be no Audrey and I but I never cared for others words about my choices.... You shouldn't either."

I watched her silently.

"Be yourself, fly by your own wings, not from borrowing mine, my wings are built to carry me but not you, you have a different story to live through then I did, my wings could never carry you where you must go so Lin, what best thing you can do is open that cage, let you wings unfold before jumping at taking off towards your own path in life."

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I blinked awake as Kela gently shook my shoulder.

"It is your turn." I wiped my eyes and face while nodding, letting her carefully lift my sister off me and replay me as the bed as I rolled away to stand.

"Thanks." I whispered with a sigh.

"Of course, I'm always here for you." Luck be on my side as the night covered the burning off my cheeks in its veil of darkness.

"Right thanks."

I sat alone, staring into the embers of the long burnt down fire, poking it with a stick to sent sparks up into the sky as I listened to all the sounds that the night had to offer.

"Open the cage and fly." I whispered while throwing the stick away and glancing around, even tho the moon and stars barely shone through the canopy I could make out enough to identify people.

Fin and Fen, despite never willing to acknowledge it, slept cuddling, unable to rest without knowing the other was near and safe after the horrible start in life they had when only each other meant safety.... It reminded me of the nights I would sneak to my sisters knowing they couldn't sleep in thunderstorms.

Kela had wrapped her cloak around Kia and both slept peacefully, I knew I had nothing to fear with her around, Kia would not be hurt. Kela already did so much for me in the time I knew her, I wish I could repay her somehow but I can't think of nothing and she doesn't seem to want anything but to stick around with me.

That simple thought made my cheek blossom red, they were right, my type was elves but mostly her, I don't know why, I never met any elf like her before but what was so different anyway? Was it really the fact she treated me normally and was there to help me while others expected something off me? Was it that simple?

My eyes landed on the shape of the woman I knew nothing about other that she almost killed my mather in her attempt to kill me, I wanted nothing to do with her or her information.

But I still stood up and walked over, draping my cloak over her shivering form before going back to my seat and staring back at the cinders in silence but not sitting down.

I dropped in a lower stance with bent knees and lifted my hands, one held out at the sky and the other pulled back by my face, staring at the moon through the leaves.

I took a brisk half turn, yanking my hand back and throwing the other out, a jet of fire launching through the leaves at the sky.

I smiled and stood up normally again, watching the hole I left as the ash dust of the leaves fell down.

"Thanks." I whispered, knowing she was watching over my from the spirit plains, tears gathered in my eyes and started to fall again. "Thank you." I whispered again with a tremble to my voice as I sat down, never taking my eyes off the moon. "Thank you for showing me the way again." I barely spoke but I still heard it in the silence of the night.