Chapter 178: Dragons
Luis entered his chamber with slumped shoulders. He had recently moved to an extra chamber close to Katelina and Levi since the green dragon, Jade, had chosen him as her dragonrider.
To be honest, his situation with the dragon still puzzled him. He had no dragonrider blood, so why would this dragon choose him? Katelina and Levi had no idea either, including Priest Saul, who said that this phenomenon hadn’t happened in history before.
It was only Levi who managed to have direct communications with these baby dragons, speaking to them inside his head. As soon as he was inside the chamber, Jade immediately flew onto his shoulder.
"Are you waiting for me?" he asked, and the dragon only made a purring sound at him, so he simply assumed that it was a yes.
He released a deep sigh and murmured, "I wonder when we can truly talk to each other. According to Saul, it never happened before, but Queen Katelina is considering the possibility based on how you even chose a normal human like me as your dragonrider."
He walked towards the table and sat on the chair. He gently grabbed Jade from his shoulder and put her on the table so he could face her.
"Today, I got turned down by the woman I love before I even had the confidence to confess to her. I guess I saw this coming, but somehow I can’t help but cling to the smallest hope I see in it. But now, she stated it with conviction. I felt every word in her eyes alone. I’m only like an older brother to her... a family she’s grateful to have." Luis expressed.
Unknowingly, tears rolled down his eyes. He was so brokenhearted, and it struck sharply through his heart to hear it directly from Katelina. But somehow, he felt lighter, perhaps because he finally found closure and understood how she truly felt about him.
The dragon made another purring sound and then nudged its head against his hand on the table as if comforting him in his moment of pain.