Chapter 512: Family Quarrel.
My paternal grandmother’s crown was, surprisingly, human-sized. Well, maybe not too surprising, considering that this crown size was the norm for the imperial dragon family of Kargryx. To us dragons, our horns were our “crowns,” our symbol as the rulers of this empire, which was why in our dragon forms, we didn’t wear any crowns or adornments.
Things were different for our humanoid forms, though. Since Mom produced an ice crown for me during my first diplomatic meeting, and wore her own, I already knew dragons did put some weight behind the headwear, and it proved true when my siblings all wore theirs when we met Eltharion in the throne room.
As such, I concluded my grandmother probably didn’t wear the crown often enough, yet … After 2.500 years and also getting absorbed into an ugly toad, the black-red scaled crown was still intact. The power of Kramps’s and Grandmother’s scales, I bet.
Which was why, even after all those years spent inside the magma chambers and, probably, quite some time stuck in the toad, the distinct dragon pheromones were still active on it. Mom did mention she caught a sniff of them, although the scent had vanished enough that dragons who weren’t aware of the “late” empress wouldn’t recognize it as such.
Therefore, Mom told me to hide the crown for now, as Eltharion, supposedly, wasn’t happy with his mother, either. So, it remained in my storage as I was confronting my dragon father … Also, the damn toad’s organ was in Mom’s [Storage Magic]. I would not put that thing anywhere close to any of my other items!
“Drahk-krakrona, k—” As Mom and I were descending to the ground, some of the dragons surrounding Maustoovaka raised their heads, attempting to speak with Eltharion.
However, by exuding his aura, he immediately silenced all of them, even intimidating the two Inferno Nest rulers, at least going by the way they winced.
[“The young whelpling princess’s proficiency in Draconic is lackluster, still. Speak with [Telepathy],”] he ordered, and none argued.
I’ve gotten better … I complained, but kept that thought to myself, since this probably was better for me.