The Dragon Maiden by Kendall Lesperance

Author:Kendall Lesperance [Lesperance, Kendall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kendall Lesperance
Published: 2024-06-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Dracul

For the next few months, my days were spent attending meetings with the other Dragon Lords. Once again, they expressed concerns with Borthen’s behavior, citing it as suspicious and inflammatory. While I agreed the Starfire clan’s actions were a cause for concern, I did not think it warranted the level of alarm the other Lords thought it did. Most of the time, my meetings were with Lord Hiram and Lord Firenze, receiving updates on Borthen’s military actions. Lord Firenze assured me that our forces were ready for any attack from the Starfire clan, so I was not that worried. The Lords I had appointed were good at their jobs, though they did have a tendency to worry more than they should. Eventually, we decided that I would visit the Starfire clan in the spring with Lord Verhorn and Lord Firenze to examine the situation up close.

Usually, in the afternoons, I was able to spend time in my quarters to complete any paperwork, but Lord Verhorn and Lord Noxus would typically barge in with some other concern about how the clan functioned and whether our financial status was in a good spot. This was one of the reasons I hated winter—I could not easily escape the cave to avoid their questions. My only saving grace was that I could stay near Valora while they brought their concerns forth. And even though she pretended to be occupied with her tasks, I could tell she listened in and learned a lot in the process. After they left, she would wait a while before asking her own questions about what had been discussed. She had really started to take an interest in the clan activities.

I knew Lord Lorka had a good hand on our crops and distributed food to the human villages that did not have enough to survive the winter. Thanks to his talent and effort, our clan always had more than enough, so we were easily able to spare food to help those less fortunate. His reports were always the easiest to read and the ones I had to worry the least about.

After her punishment, Valora threw herself into her duties more than ever. She made sure to stick strictly to the rules and had maintained that wall she had put up, much to my disappointment. I still felt the pull to her, to my dragaria, and I knew based on the way she would pause at times that she could feel the pull as well. The distance she put between us hurt, and it was an effort not to push aside all boundaries and embrace her. Her interest in the activities of the clan gave me hope that we would be able to move past this, but there was a new stiffness to our interactions now. At least the fact that she had been following the rules without issue made it easier for the other Lords to approve of her going through the oath ceremony to become an official Dragon Maiden.

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