Ember Dragon Daughter: The Fated Tales (The Fated Tales Series: YA Royalty Fantasy Book 2) by Rebecca K. Sampson

Author:Rebecca K. Sampson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HWN Press
Published: 2019-07-19T07:00:00+00:00

SEVENTEEN

A SECRET

Noor sat on the edge of Ember’s tub while she used the assortment of oils left near her sink. She had to get all of the makeup off of her face before she became too tired. Honestly, she was already too tired. Cindrea would have too many questions if she saw Ember covered in black when she had left her with a clean face and ready for bed.

“What did you think of them?” Noor asked, looking down at his shoes rather than at her eyes. She could feel that this was an important question to him. She thought as she rubbed the oily substance over her eyeliner.

“I think that there is a lot I don’t know about our kingdom,” she began saying. The idea that the kingdom was hers as foreign as the thought that she was part of a pair.

“And they will help me learn that information," Ember said.

Her mind drifted to the running children and to the group her age, sitting beside that large gouge in the wall. Claws. Ember pulled off the sweater so that her scales were free. Someone had to know what happened to them. As soon as the thought struck her, she wasn’t sure who she was talking about—the dragons, or her moms.

"How come no one recognizes you?" Ember asked him.

"What do you mean?"

"If your parents have been involved for so many years, shouldn't they know you?" Ember questioned, rubbing the oil again on her lids. She turned to him and leaned against the sink.

"The resistance isn't as organized as they seem. The scribemasters speak to all factions, but there isn't a set system or organization structure. Most of the time, the groups across the provinces don't speak," Noor explained and sighed.

Then he burst into laughter.

“What?” Ember asked, momentarily anxious at the outburst.

She looked back at her reflection and laughed too, the oil had smeared black all over her eyelids and into her brows. Well, at least he wasn’t laughing at her the next day when the black was not only on her face, but on their pillows and blankets.

She quickly dabbed her small towel back into the oil and worked to get the rest of the makeup off her face.

“I can see why you like it down there. It’s… different from the castle, different from any place I’ve been,” Ember added as his laughter died down.

And that was true. Ember knew it. The closest she had ever been to that much companionship was when she was with her moms, but that life felt so removed from who she was now that sometimes she felt like it was a dream. Had it actually been only two years ago that she was eating dinner at the family table alone, wondering why her moms weren’t home yet? Her eyes drifted to the door briefly, imagining them helping Karwyn get ready in the same room that she now slept.

Noor’s face lightened, as if the gravity of Aaleia was lifted from him. He stood behind her and smiled into her now-clean face, oblivious to the tilt of her thoughts.

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