Chosen By The Dragon Kings novel Chapter 56

Elora’s Pov

The day passed by quickly and it was good actually having things to do other than remain in the castle under lock and key. Silas and Matitus allowed me to go help with the children in the afternoon, although they refused to just let me be on my own, instead following me everywhere I went.

Silas also refused to allow me my own room again even though there were plenty of spare rooms throughout the castle. After dinner and a shower, I lay on the floor in front of the fireplace with a book in hand, yet I couldn’t concentrate on the words. Instead, I found myself pondering what that human girl had said a couple days before about humans believing I was to kill the dragon kings and save them.

“What are you thinking about?” Asked Silas leaning over the side of the bed looking down at me. I had intentionally kept my walls up not wanting them to invade my thoughts, yet I kept feeling them probing trying to get in my head. Giving up I knew I wasn’t going to get any sleep without asking.

“Something one of the children said to me the other day,” I tell him.

“And what is that?” Silas asks.

“Did you know humans have stories and legends of their own about the fae with magic, about me?” Silas seemed deep in thought for a second.

“I was aware but what did they say?”

“That the chosen one would rid the world of the Dragon kings,” I tell him. He growls softly and I see Matitus sit up behind him.

“That’s what you have been thinking about? Do I need to sleep with a towel wrapped around my neck to stop you from cutting it in my sleep?” Matitus asks raising an eyebrow at me.

“No, of course not,” I tell him, appalled at him even thinking I would actually try to kill someone.

“Then why are you thinking about it?” Silas asks.

“Everything has balance right, a loophole to take down the other species” Silas turns to me looking over at me curiously, wondering where I was going with this. I felt Matitus looking at me too.

“Human mortality, vampires, the sunlight, werewolves, wolfsbane and fae were only given one life force meaning we could die the same way as a human. So, it evened the playing field but what is your weakness, we know witches it is their magic, use too much it will kill them but what about dragons” I asked confused, trying to figure out how exactly they were going to restore the balance.

Everything was meant to have a weakness, yet I had never heard of the dragons having one, either it means they kept it secret, or they were the superior species. Silas chuckles at my question and I can’t believe I never asked before.

“What’s so funny?” I ask. Silas doesn’t answer but I am surprised when Dragus does.

“Dragons can only procreate with their mates, their fated mates” he answers so, that’s why they were a dying species, mates were hard to come by, but yet I didn’t really see that as a weakness.

“But how do you kill a dragon?” I ask knowing they were immortal but surely there had to be away, otherwise the entire place would be run solely by dragons. Silas growls and Dragus answers again when Silas doesn’t.

“You have to kill their mate”

“But that makes no sense, Blaire died. Silas killed her yet you are all still alive”

“Yes, because we never marked her, she rejected us and didn’t bare our marks”

But that left another question, the girl from the warehouse. Her words about the chosen fae killing the dragon kings. Did the humans really believe I would kill myself to save them?

“So, we break this curse, and the treaty is restored and the curse on the dragons is lifted?” Silas nods,

“That’s how it's supposed to work. The treaty was broken when Blaire rejected us. Part of the treaty was that no person can be denied their true mate so when Blaire rejected us, she broke the treaty. Which was able to start the war. I never would have been able to kill her unless she broke the treaty. The treaty was bound by blood making it impossible for us to kill each other. When she broke the treaty, I killed her husband as punishment for breaking our bond. Then Blaire cursed us, and I lost control and killed her which started the war between the Dragons and the fae because Blaire was next to rule” Silas said