Book 15: Chapter 100
The night sky was clear. The winds had blown the stench of blood away. The corpses that remained emitted a bright light underneath the moonlight; those were the dragons’ scales. At some point in the future, the scales would become frail scrap that a passing breeze would break. Just as the once grand nation built by the dragons was gone, the scales would crumble and turn to grains of dust.
It was just another night no mistake about it, but there were corpses piled up outside. It was another night just as any other where the dragons lived together, but there were no longer many dragons alive. The entire forest was quiet. Camille silently looked at the cold land outside. Her gaze contained a complex mix of emotions. One of them was despair. She saved her race. Everything she did was for the sake of their future, yet the dragons destroyed everything they currently had with their own hands.
The dragons went extinct because they never realised the reason they were dying out. The dragons took pride in their strength, but their strength was the very factor that brought about their demise. The dragon race was greedy, and it was that greed that drove them to extinction in the end.
Camille thought to herself, “Why didn’t those dragons understand? Why didn’t they understand my painstaking efforts? I was somewhat selfish in trying to make my daughter be the one to give birth to the future of our dragon race; but nonetheless, that was for the sake of our race! Not only did they not understand my painstaking efforts, but even destroyed our future with their own hands. I put my dignity and life as a dragon on the line for this dragon egg. I did everything for this child, including resorting to vicious means without hesitation, yet all I’ve gotten from that is a crushed dragon egg.
What can I do now? Sylvanas will never agree to this. The best ending possible would be for Sylvanas to spare me, but that’s the extent of it. Sylvanas didn’t comment only out of consideration for the child; otherwise, I would’ve been strangled to death on the spot after waking Sylvanas. It really seems that I lost everything in the end no matter what I did. I’ve lost my home, my race, my child’s child, my hope and my career. Everything… it’s all gone.”
Dragons had very long lifespans, so time was the most worthless thing to them. Everything that happened would with the passage of time. Time was the most powerful thing in the world. It could heal all wounds and erase all pains. That was probably the last thing worth celebrating for Camille. In saying that, Camille had no idea when she’d forget and when she’d be able to be freed from it. Maybe a decade, maybe a century, but maybe never.
Camille slowly stood up. She looked as haggard as an ancient dragon heading to her grave. Who would’ve known how many more years of life she had left, though? She slowly went back to her house, the mountain cave. She coincidentally encountered Sylvanas, who was coming out.
“Queen Dowager Sylvanas.” Camille was meek and speechless.
Sylvanas: “You sure are out so late at night. Did you want to do something for the dragons? The dragons are dead. While dragons have remarkably strong life forces, a headless dragon can’t survive.”