The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

Chapter 116

CH116

Morgan.

I gasped, opening my eyes and looked up at Anya who looked down at me with concern.

"Lady Morgan, are you all right?"

back

The memory began to dissolve, the sounds retreated back into Pyra's memories, but I could shake the image of Siora's face contorted in shock. I could still smell the blood in the air. Her lifeless body ripped apart and thrown everywhere as the war raged on around her.

I swallowed and forced a smile, nodding. My heart pounding, tears stinging my eyes.

"Sorry, I just... had a vision, I think."

Anya's eyes widened. "You're a seer, Lady Morgan?"

I shook my head. "Not exactly."

I took a deep breath and stood. "Why don't you rest for a little while longer? We'll reconvene about this council business closer to lunch."

She nodded with a thankful murmur before lying back down. Pyra was oddly still and quiet in the back of my mind.

"Do you know where Tsuneo is?"

Haruka smiled. "Second lesson: listen to the palace.

I chuckled, nodding, feeling silly. I reached out, searching for him, when I found him growling and pacing in his office. He looked up as if he could feel me searching for him, then he vanished. "You needed me?"

I turned, gasping as he appeared behind me.

squeaked. "When could

He chuckled. "Recently."

do," I said and took his hand.

and drifted through

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back in our chambers, the fire was still crackling softly in the hearth. Tsuneo guided me to a chair and kneeled beside as tears started

the present, but the

murmured, my voice barely audible. "Pyra's daughter... Siora. She

eyes searching mine for answers. Another light flickered in his

he blinked

don't you start from the

make sense of what I had seen. "Anya looks exactly like

went stiff. I eyed him. "You know

for a

iridescent dragon, but I had never imagined..." Tsuneo shook his head. "We can talk at length about... the last time there was a Convening of the Celestial

show it

her silence, and the fire that burned inside her.

now, I understood her fury, but what I didn't understand was this low-level

I parted again and I went to find Haruka. She was already sitting with Maya in her private parlor, laughing over tea and snacks.

hope everything

I just... needed

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say. Pyra still wasn't speaking to

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will be here

me, but I held it back. Anya had been through a lot, she had suffered greatly, but she was strong. Pyra's desire to coddle her was understandable, but she wasn't Siora. If she felt ready and

had already been taken from her. I sat down and poured

"Sounds great."

Haruka