A few more days passed just like that as both Alden and Aemirya hunted dragons during the day, their synergy growing better with each battle, while she taught him about the world at night.
During this time, they had grown close enough that she began sharing stories about her past. She didn't remember much about her childhood but she knew that her mother was a runaway dragon who had fallen for a strange human, a wandering jester.
As the human wandered through the many kingdoms of mankind, her mother followed him everywhere, and eventually they had her.
Aemirya didn't remember the face of her father but she always described him as someone who smiled at her no matter what she said as if his face knew no other expression.
Then the event that changed her life forever happened.
One day, while her father was away, the Dragon Elders finally found them. Her mother fought fiercely but she and Aemirya were captured without much resistance.
That was how her hell began.
