-Laelia-
“So, who was the dragon your father kept under the castle, to keep it warm in the winters,” Ladon asked, pulling me away from the staring contest I was having with Ashes.
“It was a dragon that came with evil intentions and wanted to destroy our kingdom. My father wanted to kill it, but my mother told him not to and let him serve a different purpose.”
“Your mother sounds smart.”
“She was,” I said with a small smile playing on my lips.
I wished I had had time to meet her, but unfortunately, giving me life cost us hers, and I never really got a chance to meet her. We didn’t even have any paintings of her. After she died, my father had them taken down, but I had found the place where he was hiding them, when I was ten. I always loved to explore the castle, and eventually found th
