After a moment, he asked, "What was the daughter like afterward? What did the ritual do to her?"
Seeing how invested he was in learning about their history, she chose to further indulge his curiosity.
"When she came down from the mountain, her eyes carried a strange ember glow and her skin was almost hot to the touch. Heat affected her differently than it affected ordinary people. She could walk through fire and not get burned. The flames she produced burned hotter than ordinary fire and were almost impossible to put out."
The wings that occasionally surfaced among Silhara descendants were also part of that inheritance. Nythera's essence never expressed itself the same way in every generation, and not every member of the bloodline manifested all of it. Some inherited stronger flames. Some developed extraordinary resistance to heat. A few manifested draconic wings. But all of it traced back to the same source. Nythera.
