The Fae World: Kalinia: Aeron: The Creation of the Dragons (part 3)

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Aeron didn’t think that making the dragon unhappy was something they wanted to do, and when he glanced around the room at his colleagues he was certain they thought the same, but then Enna said, “I’ll need to talk to our Queen first. We weren’t expecting you to shift into a different form and she may not want us to continue with this experiment.”

“Your Queen no longer has a say in what happens to my people,” the dragon replied, thankfully still without anger in his voice. “Please begin putting the souls into bodies. I wish to be away from this…” He looked around the room with distaste. “…facility as soon as possible.”

“I can’t do that.”

The dragon turned to look at Enne and Aeron was certain he didn’t want to be the one to be speaking on behalf of the Queen. “Can’t or won’t?”

“The oath I made to my Queen when she was elected prevents me from doing as you wish. If it were up to me I’d carry on as you wish.”

“Is that the same for all the people within this room?”

Enna nodded. “It is.”

“So if your Queen commanded you to end the experiment?”

“We’d have to follow her orders.”

Nodding, the dragon ran a hand through his hair. “Do you know of any way around the oath?”

“I don’t know of one.” When Enna’s eyes met Aeron’s he shook his head. “There may be one, but we’ve never needed to work around the oath before, and my only way of finding out would be to leave the facility. If I do that the Queen is sure to ask for a progress report and I can’t lie to her about what’s happened, because that would also break the oath I made.”

“There is one way,” a quiet voice said, drawing the attention of everyone in the room. “It’s one that hasn’t been used for centuries, since a group of our family walked away from the Queen, but it should still work.”

“What is it?” the dragon asked.

Malina bit her lip. It was unusual for her to speak up. Normally she spent the majority of her time focused on the notebook in front of her, determined to get every little detail written down, because she knew how important what they were doing could be in the future. She was probably where the sound of scribbling was coming from when the dragon was shifting into human form and when Aeron thought about it he wasn’t surprised that she knew a part of the history that no one else did.

“Oaths are a special type of magic. Breaking one is almost impossible, but making an oath to someone of greater power is one of the few things that can.” Malina looked at the dragon with fear in her eyes. “You have greater power than our Queen, so making an oath to you…” She shrugged. “It would break the previous oath we made to our Queen.”

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

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O_O That is a perilous way to escape an oath!