Chapter 67 - Painful Memories – Part 2
"I didn’t notice it at first. But when I saw what was happening to my mother and tried to help her, I realized it was already too late. I began backing away as fast as I could, and when I looked at the humans, I saw that—unlike when they’d stood before us—they were now utterly terrified."
"Huh? I don’t understand. What could be more frightening than you and your mother?"
"Me," the bird replied.
"What? You... but I thought—"
"It wasn’t because I was scarier, nor because I was stronger."
"Then why?"
"At that time they were nowhere near dragons, just as I wasn’t yet a phoenix. So their powers—and mine—fell far short of what they should have been. Even so, it was still dragonfirdragon-fireke the flame I wielded as a phoenix.
Few beings dare withstand the flames my mother used that day. But there’s only one who could walk through them—who could stand within those infernos as if they were nothing..."
"So... a dragon? You mean a dragon saved those people?"