"Then why give your child to me?"
Kael couldn't understand.
Why would… someone want to abandon his child…?
At that question, Ferrakar looked at Kael and he—
"Nerathis is empty."
He spoke in a low, heavy voice. Kael frowned at those words and the Steel Dragon continued.
"I have lived for more than thirteen hundred years, I have seen kings who believed they would last forever turn into mere names in the history books none of their descendants bother to read.
I have seen even the mightiest army fall, Kingdoms that were thought to be Eternal, Kingdoms even stronger than the Kingdoms you see now.
I have seen them fall.
I…"
The Dragon took a small pause.
"I have seen enough."
Kael did not interrupt him, Ferrakar looked at his child.
"This child was supposed to guard one such name, a name that, at one point in time, made the entirety of Nerathis tremble, a name that people thought would never disappear, a name that remained above all."
