The feeling of being watched originating from the soul and the faint warning gradually faded away, but Melita and Nuoletta only caught their breaths fully after several minutes—at this moment, even a mighty dragon would realize an undeniable fact: Even though dragons are the lords of the sky in mortal eyes, legendary transcendent beings in stories, essentially, dragons... are just another mortal race.
"So this is... a direct warning from God..." Nuoletta bit her lip with a particularly grim expression, her brows tightly knitted as she spoke, "It's different from soul punishment, but just as distressing..."
"This is just the lightest degree of 'reminder,'" the Speaker's voice echoed from the Throne of the Mind, sounding even older, "Children, you don't want to face the true 'warning' from the gods."
After a few seconds of silence and hesitation, Melita couldn't help but speak: "...What exactly was that signal? Why was it something we shouldn't have heard?"
