The Crown's Fire

Ezme bit her nails as she paced back and forth inside her bedroom. She shut herself off from teleportation, preventing her brother and mother from contacting her through their telepathic bond, but her curiosity was overwhelming her now. The dragon appeared at Ezekiel’s palace, and it only proved one thing...

[Brother,] she called out to Nikolai.

[Finally, what is it that you want now, you brat?] Nikolai answered her.

[The dragon appeared here. Are you aware of it? Is it true that Ezekiel is controlling the dragon? Is he the dragon? Is that why you keep holding me off from attacking it because it’s what your wife wants?] she fired off without a pause.

[Yes,] Nikolai plainly answered.

[What?! But that is the golden dragon! That is Vulcan who killed our father]" Ezme fumed, feeling like all the blood in her body was rising.

[Vulcan is dead, Ezme. Mineah killed Vulcan’s soul, and Ezekiel absorbed the dragon’s power. We already avenged our father, Ezme. Right now, it’s the dragon’s spirit... The dragon’s power that chose to stay within Ezekiel’s body when Vulcan’s soul vanished,] Nikolai explained.

Ezme released a deep sigh. She wanted to kill Vulcan, but she didn’t even witness the dragon dying.

[I was there when Vulcan died and vanished, Ezme, because Vulcan’s soul merged into me, and Mineah killed it inside me by stabbing it in my heart with her divine dagger. If you want to witness how it happened, then come home, and I’ll show you,] Nikolai added.