I wiped away tears. “If she loved me so much, why did she leave?”
“Because she couldn’t handle it.”
“Handle what?”
“She is not like us.”
“What does that mean?”
“She is a dragon. A chromatic dragon,” Robert answered.
I stared at him, and then the suppressed laughter pushed through my lips.
None of them laughed as my eyes flickered between them.
“You really expect me to believe that? Dragons don’t exist.”
“They do. The dragons hid among us as humans. They have a human form too, to blend in. Tanya is Chromatic, meaning that her demeanor is a bit more on the rebellion side,” Dad answered.
“Rebellion, say it as it is, Herbert. Chromatics are pre-destined for evil, Elena, if riders do not claim them.”
“Robert!”
“She needs to know.”
“Claim?” I asked.
“Tame,” Robert answered.
“Their riders? You mean humans?” My gut turned in many directions again.
“Bear, deep breaths, as this was the part you didn’t do so great with last time either.”
I couldn’t even remember the last time, but I tried to take deep breaths.
“That is it. Deep breaths.”
My lungs filled about a zillion times more when fantasy art about dragons flashed through my mind. Were they vicious?Of course they are vicious, they are beasts.
“Fox, he has a colony of dragons that is on our trail every three months. They won’t stop until we are dead.”
I stared at my father.
“I swear it’s the truth.”
“Why?”
“Because of who you are.”
“Who am I?”
“You will tame the alpha of the dragons, Bear.”
I chuckled again as my entire body shivered. The alpha?
“I used to put him in all the bedtime stories. Without you, we will lose him. And someone extremely evil will be the only one strong enough to tame him and then it’s not just the end of Paegeia but the end of this world too.”
Holy crap.I was that important. “How do you know this?”
