Chapter 515: The Fire Dragon Refugees.
Twenty fire dragons—that was the total number of refugees that would be coming to Frozen Nest to find protection from Maustoovaka’s wrath. The entire group was composed out of Hedthalak’s and his wife’s side of the family, including their children, which surprised me; honestly, I thought the group would be a bit larger since I saw multiple older dragons help me out during my escape.
Apparently, they had also fled Inferno Nest, but they were seeking safety with their families in other regions or were bunkering down in Loatryx. Hedthalak’s family were the only ones coming over to us, from what I presumed, due to the debt I owed him. A debt Mom and I were fully willing to repay.
Still, I was a bit confused why exactly his family chose to come over here, with the way that ice and fire dragons despised each other. Fehrkatruk, his son, and I had a weird relationship considering how we fought each other during our first meeting when he and his posse tried to coerce me into taking a side in the succession crisis, only for him to do me a favor by pulling his father into my whole dispute with Maustoovaka. Were we friends, acquaintances, or just people who helped each other on occasion?
Probably the latter, right now.
[“I can see them,”] Shay announced while flying over our welcoming party, prompting all the dragons around me to turn their attention south.
[“More than twenty, though,”] Beth added, prompting other ice wyverns to confirm what she said.
“Holy dragons,” Alextraxus bellowed in Draconic, his raspy dragon voice echoed around the ice-cold, grey-sand beach. “Your orders, Empress?”
Mom raised her head, eyeing the caravan of dragons, dragoons, and wyverns blanketing the sky like one large cloud. “… They are here for my daughter, and she did promise Yuilengreill that she would speak with them. Allow them in; I don’t see the Dragon Ruler of Light amongst them, even though two of them are rank S.”
Due to my deal with Mom and Yuilengreill to host Annaheil, the niece of the former cardinal vicar of Aureolis, in Coral Beard, I was supposed to help Mom with managing Iceskale and for the latter, she wanted me to speak with the holy dragon flight. Specifically concerning the fact I was a holy dragon; the only one in our family, so they saw me as their princess. Their ticket to contend for the throne of Kargryx, in other words.