NovelEnglishChapter 0724
My father's voice trailed off at that point. He dropped his head a bit, as though the memories pained him to
recount.
"We shared secrets with one another," he said. "Secrets that no one else—not even your mother, Nina-ever
discovered."
"But it all went south, didn't it?" Enzo whispered.
Aldric nodded slowly. "Mila had a small tribe of her kin; the last of her kind. It was my job to protect them in
exchange for Mila's expertise. And | failed."
Mila burst into Aldric's chambers, the doors swinging outwards in front of her. Her hair was wild, and her eyes
glowed like two emeralds. Aldric had gotten used to the dragon's frazzled appearance, and he went to wave her
away.
"I'll speak with you in a moment"
"No." She stormed forward and slammed her fists on the table, causing Aldric's werewolf council to jump in
unison. Fire flickered on her fingertips; without a word, the others got up and scurried out of the room in fear of
the dragon's strength.
"What the hell, Mila?" Aldric rose from his chair once they were alone. Another one of Mila's episodes, perhaps,
he thought. But no-when he saw the tears in her eyes for the first tin twenty years, he knew that something
was terribly wrong.
For the first tsince Aldric had known Mila, she sobbed. Openly.
"They killed them all," she said through her choked screams. "I went back to the village, and they're all dead.
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"Who?" Aldric ran around the table to meet her. He reached for her shoulders, but she pulled away with a fierce
snarl.
"The poachers. And I'll fucking kill them, too."
The sun was high in the sky by now, but Enzo and | hardly felt the passage of time. My father traced his finger
around the rim of his whiskey glass as he spoke.
"Those poachers had been a problem for years," he explained. "Seeing as there were so few dragons left, their
scales and especially their eggs-caught quite the price on the market. We staved them off as much as we could,
but their underground networks ran deep. They got her kin in the end. Mila would have been killed, too, had she
not been visiting my estate."
"So you failed in your end of the deal," | said slowly and deliberately.
Aldric swallowed. "I did. | got lazy, too full of pride. | thought that with the threat of my men on the horizon, the
poachers would leave them alone. But they just got better at hiding themselves."
There was a long pause before my father continued. "She kept true to her word," he whispered. "She killed every
last one of those poachers. She found their hideout and spread her fires through the caves in which they hid."
"The obsidian palace," | whispered. "She created it when she burned them all."
"Indeed she did." My father stood and crossed over to the window yet again. "I still remember exactly what she
said that day, while the mountain was still smoldering: "Their grave shall becmy throne, Aldric. And | shall
turn this mountain into my horrid kingdom.""
"And she did just that, didn't she?" Enzo murmured. "She turned that entire mountain into a place of
unimaginable monstrosities."
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"But you never went to her. Not even once." | was standing now without even realizing it. "And now she's out
there with a cult following her every whim."
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"This is my fault," he said. "But | intend to end her reign of terror. And I'd like to recruit the New Peacekeepers for
this cause."
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