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Chapter 413 – Gnawing Fear
In the domain of Order Draco, inside a room riddled with nothing but dragons and gold-made objects, a woman was laying on her bed shaped like the maw of a dragon.
The room was clean and tidy, the ceiling etched with the lifelike painting of a dragon. If Kaden had seen this painting, he would immediately recognize the creature.
On the ground was nothing but floor made of processed rock. It was soft yet firm to the touch.
The woman wore a tight black short clinging to her ass perfectly, adorned with a cute red top. With her sinful curvy body, the sight was mesmerizing to say the least.
Her silver draconic eyes were looking at the ceiling — admiring her role model — while her mind thought of everything that happened since she had discovered the corpse of the Red Prince with her friend, Cole.
Keisha never thought that incident would reach this point.
But honestly, what did she expect when her family, her Order, was involved?
The Fat Dragon had made Order Draco both in cold, stinking, shitty relations with Hydra and Lyra.
The two Orders would not hesitate a moment to strike them.
And considering the prodigy Sky from Order Orion’s hate to the core for the Fat Dragon, then Order Orion might as well be included in their growing list of enemies.
It left only Order Centaurus, but those guys would never hesitate to support the others in attacking them.
They spoke of being smart and above war...but damn those hypocrites.
’The only thing stopping them is The Sphinx and her worrying news.’ Keisha thought, frowning her silver eyebrows. ’For now, the news of the birth of the Heir of Monster is more important to them than fighting against each other.’
It was weird to Keisha to see all the Orders unanimously agreeing on first killing the Heir.
She wondered why.
And why most of them, mainly the old generations, were so tense and afraid.
Keisha didn’t know, but what she did know was that The Fat was not one to care about the general well-being of his people.
He only cared about himself. The type of dragon that could swallow the world if it meant living one more second.
His size said all about him.
’He will certainly do something.’ Keisha thought, her jaw clenching.
And that worried her so damn much that she was robbed of sleep.
Because The Fat had recently begun to do an annoying damned intensive research on everything that happened on that day.
Meaning, he would eventually come to learn that her and Cole were on duty to scout the perimeter around the Order on that day.
And knowing that...
Keisha’s eyes immediately went dead cold.
"I can’t afford to have his attention on me." She said, suppressing a wind of fear. "Cole is afraid. He now barely gets out of his room, afraid that he will be caught. At this rhythm, we will be caught because of his idiocy."
She cursed, grabbing her silver pillow and tore it apart with her sharp nails.
Her eyes became deeper, a decision crystallizing inside her mind.
"I didn’t want to do this." She whispered, closing her eyes, trying to calm her stomping heart.
But a cowardly ally was worse than not having an ally at all. Cole was cowardly. And if he ever slipped — and the Mother Of Dragons knew that he would — then he would never fall alone.
He would bring with him everyone of his allies. In other words, he would drag her down into a bottomless pit.
And that...
"...I will never accept."
...
"Are you sure about your decision?" Solace asked, her voice like the meowing of a slurry cat, looking at Meris standing in front of a big gigantic door.
The door was purple with silver inscriptions describing frost and cat interwoven together in a mesmerizing dance.
At the top of it was a sentence.
’Never stop dancing.’
Solace stared intently at Meris’s face with her feline eyes, trying to see — to understand — what could have caused such a stark shift in Meris.
Years had passed, but she never truly had hope that Meris would regain herself and not lose herself.
And yet she did.
"Of course I am." Meris said with a small smile, "I am as sure as I can be."
"Now you make me curious." Solace said.
"Curiosity killed the cat." Meris giggled, "Didn’t you know that?"
"No." Solace’s lips twitched.
"Now you do. I have heard this from my handsome Kaden."
Solace’s eyebrows arched. It was dangerously cute on her cat face.
"Is he the reason for your current self? The fact you are now...less conflicted with your own self?"
Meris nodded simply.
Her smile was calm and serene, her silver eyes hazy as she remembered the dance with Kaden in the sky.
Her smile deepened.
"Yes," she said, "He is the one."
"Why? No, how did he even succeed?"
Solace could see deep inside Meris’s chest. Her situation hadn’t changed. She was still Soulless, with nothing but frost in her.
In a way, her situation even got worse.
The frost had evolved during the past two years. And with her goal of taking the Seed of Frost, it might as well mean that Meris would be nothing but ice.
Yet there was a slight change in her. Beside her heart made partially of ice — literally — a small flickering crimson-gold flame like one of a candle softly cackled around it.
Solace’s glowing eyes widened at the fire.
Meris’s voice rang out, filled with conviction and belief,
"Because he told me something, grandma Solace." She whispered, raised her hand then put her palm flat on the cold surface of the door. "He told me that whatever I become, and no matter how cold I am..."
She smiled,
"...his fire will always be able to melt me and make a way in my heart for him."
"And you believe that?" Solace said, trying to keep her calm. She had noticed the peculiarity of the fire.
’The Phoenix’s Family. One of them chose a Host? I thought they were all chained by Him? But it’s not enough. Their fire are not equal to a Primordial.’
"You know well how dangerous and unique your ice is." Solace continued. "And if you decide to enter inside this room because of what your lover had told you, then you better reconsider. Choose only to enter when you are ready to bear the consequences of losing what make you human."
She paused, then slowly,
"Losing your emotions themselves."
Meris turned her head slowly, boring her silver eyes into Solace’s purple ones.
She grinned sharply, showing her gleaming white teeth,
"I understand well the consequences of what I am about to do." Meris said, activating her silvery mana, then transferring it into the door through her hand,
"But does it matter, grandma Solace?" She continued. "No matter how much I believe in Kaden. No matter how many times I told myself that I won’t lose my love for my mother and for him. No matter how many times I wafted away fear..."
The door began to glow like a beacon of light.
"...it always came back. I am drowning in fear, grandma Solace."
Solace’s face twisted, eyes downward. She could see it very well.
The eyes of Meris could be seen as cold or even mischievous to others. But to her, with her unique eyes, she could see the fear gnawing at her brain and heart.
And yet...
"I have to do this." Meris said, lips pressed in a determined line. "I have to do this for myself. Because I don’t want to live knowing I ran away from something because of fear."
"I am Meris Elamin, Daughter of Mayari, Heiress of Elamin."
The door creaked open.
"I cannot afford to run. And I will not run away from myself."
Meris turned back her head in front of her, looking at the suffocating darkness that peeked through the gap of the door.
She closed her eyes, breathing in and out to calm her screaming nerves.
"If I come out as an emotionless being with no way to go back to who I was." Meris whispered to Solace, "I want you to kill me."
Solace answered with silence.
Meris didn’t say anything else.
She steeled herself, and stepped forward, letting the darkness cling to her like sweat on skin.
Immediately after, the door closed back on itself with a loud, resounding bang, as if having a mind of its own.
Solace was left there, her purple eyes looking at the door for a while.
Then slowly, she lay on the floor in front of the door, her position like those old regal cats of ancient times.
She closed her eyes peacefully, remembering the last words of Meris. She shook her head, amused.
"Kill you?" Solace echoed, purring.
"Don’t you know you are Royalty, Meris? Born from the purest essence of the worlds?"
Solace sighed.
And besides...
"How can I kill the Daughter of Frost as a creature of Frost?"
—End of Chapter 413—