Disabled Dragon King's Substitute Bride: Dawn Phoenix Awakening novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: What Phoenixes Cost
The cold flames in the ember garden stood quiet in the dark.
Sennet sat on her bench with the clay cup in her hands, and she did not look up.
"Sit," she said.
Maelis sat, with her hair still tangled from the bed.
"There are things I did not say," Sennet went on. "Because you were new, and he was proud, and I thought we had time."
"Tell me now."
"Your mother wrote to me every year until she died.
"She was my pupil before she was a queen.
"She came over the mountain at sixteen to learn this garden, and she cried the whole first night on this bench."
The old woman turned her cup slowly.
"The Dawnborn have two fires.
"The small fire, the one you have been using, is a candle.
"It burns and heals a little, and each time it takes a few days off the life of the one who lights it.
"Your mother spent hers all through your childhood, warming your hands at night, when you slept."
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