Chapter 98

[1750 B.C.]

She fell asleep.

He fell asleep on a dark wooden table with a book three times his head stuck in his arms.

The oath of a dragon - I knew as soon as my eyes landed on those strange letters and I sighed.

That was a story that Loren asked Calisto to read almost every night and also - it was one of my favorites.

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There was once, in a world where beings lived in harmony, a star that was born after all others. For many of her people she was regarded as symbolism of bad luck, the last star to be born, the one that could shine least -, but still that was certainly the most smiling star that Lleh had ever known.

Neveah was his name and as much as everyone implied that his name was so different from all the others, Neveah never bothered.

How could she not care? Lleh wondered whenever she saw her among the other stars.

Even if she was the most beautiful, most graceful and certainly the one that the dragon considered brighter